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Welcome to Pomegranate Health, a podcast about the culture of medicine. You’ll hear clinicians, academics and advocates grapple with some big questions. How to make difficult clinical and ethical decisions free from cognitive bias. How to improve communication with patients and peers. How to deliver healthcare with efficiency and equity.

Fellows of the RACP can log time spent listening towards their CPD. Basic Physician Trainees will find the Case Report series a useful model for presentation of long-cases at their clinical examinations.

This is also the home of IMJ On-Air, where authors from the College's Internal Medicine Journal present their work. Meanwhile, the Journal Club episodes invite RACP researchers published in other academic journals to showcase their work.

Please add to the discussion in the comments section for each episode and send any feedback or ideas to podcast@racp.edu.au

Latest episodes

[Journal Club] Baricitinib immune therapy for new onset type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes has a very high treatment burden but may now be possible to delay the progression of disease. Daily therapy with the immune modulator baricitinib has been shown to preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed adults and children.

Ep106: The whiskey fix and the apple of Granada

Strange tales from archives of medical history.

Ep105: When parents and paediatrics clash

Disputes over the care of paediatric patients have become more frequent and more intense. Mediation skills can help avoid these and minimise moral injury to parents and healthcare staff.

[IMJ On-Air] Is the jury still out on omega-3 supplementation?

For many years now clinical guidelines have explicitly encouraged dietary intake of omega-3s fatty acids for those at high cardiovascular risk. Such recommendations come despite considerable inconsistency in the outcomes from interventions studies over the years.

[IMJ On-Air] HepatoCare: a model for palliative and supportive care in advanced cirrhosis

Patients diagnosed with advanced cirrhosis have poor prognosis and quality of life but only a fraction are referred to palliative care services. Hepatocare is a model of care designed to reduce this gap.

Ep102: Staying on script with semaglutide

Semaglutide has proven effectiveness for glycaemic control and weight loss as well as predictable benefits for cardiovascular and metabolic health. But the unprecedented demand from the wider population has posed a problem for regulators and prescribers.

Ep101: Setting the standard for workforce wellbeing

Between 50 and 70 percent of doctors meet the criteria for burnout. The response to this requires a nation-wide wellbeing strategy starting with some very simple administrative changes.

Ep100: Conversations with ChatGPT

Natural language processor models could save hours of time spent writing clinical notes and searching through preexisting ones. But there are problematic aspects to networks on the scale of the astounding ChatGPT.

Ep99: When AI goes wrong

Uncertainty around the medicolegal aspects of AI-assisted care is of the main reasons that practitioners report discomfort about the use of this technology. It's a question that hasn’t been well tested in the courts but there is evidence about the types of adverse events that result.

[IMJ On-Air] A tiger in the mallee: Victoria’s JEV cluster

In early 2022 Victorian physicians saw a cluster of patients presenting with fevers, confusion and Parkinsonian symptoms. These would be identified as the first cases of Japanese encephalitis virus acquired on Australia’s mainland in 24 years.

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