In the next 3 episodes, we take you through some of the skills and activities that are helpful to develop whilst managing the on-call environment. In this podcast, we take you through a virtual seminar where we discuss methods of effective prioritisation. 

This episode can be listened to as stand-alone; however there is also an accompanying workbook, hosted at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/2w5eqke9s56s3/Contingency_FM or, for Newcastle medical students, on the MLE under 5th year/HBP medicine/Wear/Contingency FM

You will need 

• Prioritisation introduction powerpoint 
• Prioritisation podcast 

Instructions: 

Listen to the prioritisation podcast while looking through the ‘prioritisation introduction’ PowerPoint (we will tell you when to change the slides on the podcast) 

1. Listen to the ‘handover of tasks’ podcast and create your jobs list 
2. Work through your tasks in the ‘prioritisation task workbook’ 
3. Listen to the ‘answers to tasks’ podcast while looking through the accompanying ‘answers to task’ podcast