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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

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.

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.

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