Mastering M&M: A Practical Guide to Presenting Complications
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Behind the Knife with Cody, Patrick, Jason, and Ayman. Today, we are tackling a defining professional ritual for every surgical trainee: the Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) Conference. We are providing a practical roadmap to help you build clear, high-quality presentations that facilitate real learning for the entire room. Whether you are a junior resident preparing for your first case or an attending looking to moderate effectively, this episode covers exactly what to include, what to leave out, and how to properly frame a complication.
Hosts:
- Cody Mullens, MD
- Patrick Georgoff, MD
- Jason Bingham, MD
- Ayman Ali, MD
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| 0:00.0 | Behind the Night, The Surgery Podcast, Relevant and Engaging Content designed to Help You Dominate the day. We want you want you, yes, you, to join the Behind the Knife team as a surgical education fellow. |
| 0:40.0 | We're looking for enterprising surgical residents to take the bull by the horns and build something new and exciting. |
| 0:46.7 | Fellows will benefit from ample support from the Behind the Knife team, including the use of our digital education platform, and access to all of our resources like illustrators, |
| 0:56.1 | video editing, AI tools, social media, and more. |
| 0:59.8 | Get your name out there and build your CV by being part of the number one |
| 1:03.4 | surgery education platform in the world. |
| 1:06.5 | We're offering a two-year fellowship starting July 26 and ending in June 28. |
| 1:12.5 | Only residents beginning their two-year academic development time will be considered. |
| 1:16.9 | Check out the show notes for more information, including the application link. |
| 1:20.5 | All applications are due on April 20th. |
| 1:23.4 | Again, all applications are due by April 20th. |
| 1:30.3 | Now, get out there and dominate the day. Hey, BTK listeners, want to feel more confident in the OR? |
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| 1:36.3 | With over 300 instruments, these cards are packed with key tips, subtle distinctions, and insider tricks you usually pick up after years in the OR. Perfect for students, surgical technologists, or anyone prepping to scrub a case. You can find them in your library on the Behind the Knife app or at Behind The Knife. Org. Test your knowledge, share them with your learners, and as always, dominate the day. Hey everyone, welcome back to Behind the Knife. This is Cody, Patrick, Jason, and Iman. And today we're going to be talking to you about something that every surgical trainee will experience and remember the rest of their career, which is presenting a morbidity and mortality conference. No matter where you train, Eminem is one of those experiences where you can feel your heart rate creep just a little higher when you walk into present. Your name's on the slide. Case is queued up and you know the discussion is going to be |
| 2:21.0 | thoughtful, detailed, and led by people who have seen everything. Yeah. And if you're resident listening |
| 2:26.1 | this, you've probably remember your first Eminem presentation or you can you can picture or maybe |
| 2:31.1 | you have nightmares about it. It's definitely a formative experience. So it's not just another case conference. It's one of the places where surgical identity gets shaped. It's how we talk about complications, how we learn from them, and how we treat each other throughout that process. |
| 2:46.7 | And it's formative because Eminem is one of the defining professional rituals of surgery that's |
| 2:51.2 | pretty unique surgery. It's where we model accountability. It's where we publicly examine |
| 2:55.8 | decisions under real uncertainty. And it's where we demonstrate in a very explicit way how surgeons |
| 3:01.1 | think. Our goal for today is simple. We want to give residents a roadmap for preparing |
| 3:06.4 | high-quality M&M presentations, |
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