E91 Rick Buckley on How to Age and Retire Gracefully in Surgery

Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

On this episode we were joined by Dr. Richard Buckley. Dr. Buckley is an orthopedic surgeon at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. Dr. Buckley has had an amazingly productive career, with more than 30 years of clinical practice and hundreds of publications. Most importantly, however, Dr. Buckley has really pushed surgeons in Calgary and across Canada to think beyond received wisdoms and critically examine how we treat patients and how we organize our systems. We get a taste of his unique insights on topics from resident call, to his orthopedic textbook and finally, his thoughts on how to age and retire gracefully from a life in surgery.

Links:

1. Surgical Exposures in Orthopedics. https://www.amazon.ca/Surgical-Exposures-Orthopaedics-Anatomic-Approach/dp/0781776236

2. Canadian Orthopedic Trauma Society. http://cots.medicine.dal.ca/

3. Nonoperative treatment compared with plate fixation of displaced midshaft clavicular fractures. A multicenter, randomized clinical trial. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17200303/

4. Surgical Companion: The Aging Surgeon episode: http://canjsurg.ca/e47-surgical-companion-1-the-aging-surgeon/

5. Relation between surgeon age and postoperative outcomes: a population-based cohort study. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/15/E385

Bio (taken from: https://whenithurtstomove.org/wp-content/uploads/Rick-Buckley-EN.pdf)

Dr. Richard Buckley has been on the active medical staff in Calgary since 1990. He is a Professor in the Department of Surgery, in the Division of Orthopaedic Trauma. His active clinical practice is that of orthopaedic trauma and he is extremely active in teaching undergraduate, and post graduate medicine. He has been involved in the Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship in Calgary, with nearly 50 International Fellows under his tutelage. He is also active in the research front.

Dr. Buckley is an extremely active member of the Association for Study of Internal Fixation (ASIF)(AO). There he has held numerous course Chairman and Board responsibilities, including the International Education Board, International Research Board and has been a member of the Board of Trustees for International AO. He has been a member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association since 1990 and has held positions on the Membership Committee and Nominating Committee for this

International leading Association.

Dr. Buckley has also been extremely active in the Canadian Orthopaedic Association (COA) and has been a member of the Membership Committee and Chair of the Membership Committee, COA Advisor to the Canadian Society of Orthopaedic Technologists and Chairman and Founder of the Canadian Orthopaedic Resident Forum (a resident review course).

Dr. Buckley’s present research focus is almost exclusively related to trauma and he is an active member within the Canadian Orthopaedic Trauma Society. He has published over 80 papers and is an Editor of 4 major International, Internationally translated orthopaedic textbooks.