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Pomegranate Health

Welcome to Pomegranate Health — a podcast about the culture of medicine.

Get insights from clinicians, researchers, and advocates as they tackle important questions — like how to make difficult clinical and ethical decisions without being influenced by bias, how to communicate better with patients and colleagues, and how to provide healthcare that’s both efficient and fair.

If you're a CPD participant, time spent listening counts towards your CPD hours. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the Case Report series can help you prepare for your long case clinical exams.

This is also where you'll find IMJ On-Air, featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal sharing their latest research. Plus, the Journal Club episodes give RACP researchers a chance to talk through their work published in other academic journals.

We’d love to hear your thoughts — feel free to leave a comment on each episode or send feedback and ideas to podcast@racp.edu.au.

Latest episodes

Ep97: The governance of AI

The inexplainability of deep learning models creates discomfort for some clinicians and regulators. But AI-based clinical interventions can still be tested to the standards of evidence-based medicine we are accustomed to.

Ep96: The ergonomics of AI

AI-assisted medicine can help overcome some of the natural limits of human cognition. But it all depends on how seamlessly the machine learning devices fit in with decision-making in the clinical workflow.

Ep95: Machine Learning 101

Artificial intelligence can help interpretation of diagnostic images and perform very nuanced risk stratification based on medical records. But machine learning algorithms must be trained on good quality data to avoid error and bias from being introduced.

Ep94: Facing up to racial bias

There is systematic variation in delivery of care to culturally diverse patients in all fields of medicine. This podcast highlights the subtle biases that affect clinical decision-making by practitioners and provision of services at an institutional level.

Ep93: The rise and fall of mpox

In 2022 a sexually transmitted form of mpox virus made its way around the developed world but it had long been endemic in African countries. In this podcast we talk about the conditions that allowed new strains to evolve and the rapid community health response that reigned the global outbreak in.

Ep92: Data-driven practice improvement

The field known as Practice Analytics seeks to provide clinicians with a bird’s eye view of their case load and performance. This can draw attention to cases that stood out from the trend and help reflection and practice improvement.

[IMJ On-Air] Hyperglycaemia and COVID-19

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, international studies showed that pre-existing diabetes conferred a significant mortality risk. Researchers have retrospectively examined electronic medical records in two Melbourne health services to find no such association.

[IMJ On-Air] High readmission rates in cirrhotic patients

New research from an Australian hospital puts the early readmission rate among cirrhotic patients well above international comparisons. A fifth of these readmissions might be preventable with better adherence to guidelines.

[Guest Lecture] What we know about long COVID

ADAPT is a prospective cohort study that has been following up COVID-19 patients on various different outcome measures. This has allowed researchers to identify potential physiological and immunological signals that distinguish people who experience long COVID.

[IMJ On-Air] Making sense of HACs

Hospital-acquired complications are assumed to be preventable and to provide some metric of quality of care. But HACs may be more strongly associated with patient-related factors than they are with deviation from best practice.

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