89 | Dr. Saana Taylor on exam failure, grit and neuroanaesthesia

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Dr. Saana Taylor completed dental school before moving up to Auckland to work as a maxillofacial house surgeon for 2 years. She applied to medical school with the intention of studying to be a maxillofacial surgeon and found herself drawn to anaesthetics as a medical student. She is now an anaesthetic fellow in her final year of training, a wife, and a mother to two boys.
In this episode, we discuss her move from dentistry to medicine, journey into anaesthetics, navigating training and moving with family, failing exams and her approach to passing them, the anaesthetics training program, and her academic work into Māori health inequities.
The paper discussed in this episode can be found here: https://www.bjaed.org/article/S2058-5349(22)00006-3/fulltext

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1. Saana Taylor (00:00:00)

2. Finding dentistry (00:01:41)

3. Moving from dentistry to medicine (00:02:29)

4. Experiencing medical school as a super-grad (00:04:52)

5. Finding anaesthetics (00:07:18)

6. Training, moving & children (00:09:02)

7. Exam failures & resilience (00:11:54)

8. Training programme for anaesthetics (00:17:44)

9. Working part-time in anaesthetics (00:21:04)

10. Fellowship in neuroanaesthesia (00:22:01)

11. Academia in Maori health inequities (00:26:17)

12. Calling out biases (00:31:35)

13. Work-life balance (00:33:08)