Pomegranate Health
A podcast about the culture of medicine.
You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss all aspects of professional practice healthcare. This includes clinical judgement, ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable health systems.
For a sampler of these diverse themes take a listen to Episode 132 and Episode 135.
If RACP is your CPD home, you can log time spent listening to each episode with the "Add educational activity to MyCPD" button at each episode page.
And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series might help you prepare for your long case clinical exams. For more information on other episode formats click About Pomegranate.
Feel free to leave feedback in the comments section for each episode or send it to us via email at podcast@racp.edu.au.
Latest episodes
[Journal Club] Thrombolysis up to 24hr after ischaemic stroke
Thrombolysis can buy valuable time for patients who experience acute ischaemic stroke but two thirds of them present outside the recommended window. A recently published study shows that tenecteplase improves outcomes in selected patients even if administered up to 24 hours from onset of a large vessel occlusion.
Ep115: One day as a nuclear medicine registrar
In this “reality audio” podcast we get a taste of the daily tasks and responsibilities of an advanced trainee in nuclear medicine. There is a broad mix of cases and professional collaborations.
Ep112: The resilient workplace
This podcast challenges some established notions about workplace mental distress and how to treat it. It also shifts the conception of health as something not just dependent on the presence or absence of disease.
[CPD On Demand] Advance Your CPD Through Effective Supervision
From 2024, supervising has been recognised as a Category 2 CPD activity. This short and insightful episode focuses on recent updates to the 2024 MyCPD Framework, highlighting the recognition of supervisory activities as a critical element of Category 2 Reviewing Performance.
Ep109: Cultivating a rural workforce
The density of physicians to population plummets as soon as you leave the major cities. Addressing this requires targeted recruitment and a more flexible training strategy that motivates doctors to reap the rewards of rural medicine.