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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

[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.

[IMJ On-Air] Managing cannabinoid use in palliative care

Patients in palliative care settings may be more inclined than most to complementary and alternative medicines, including cannabinoid products. But they are also more vulnerable to side effects given impairments to their drug metabolism and clearance mechanisms.

[IMJ On-Air] Recent advances in asthma management

This is the first episode of a new format featuring authors and editors of the Internal Medicine Journal. In this episode we have leading respiratory physicians from the Royal Melbourne Hospital presenting current best practice in the diagnosis and treatment of severe asthma.

Ep85: The ASD Odyssey- a reply

Despite guideline recommendations for assessment and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders there are drivers in the health system that dissuade clinicians from implementing these. These include reimbursement and training in the area of developmental disorders.

Ep84: The ASD Odyssey

Autism spectrum disorder is often diagnosed late in Australia due to gaps in developmental surveillance and long waitlists for diagnostic evaluations. This podcast discusses a national guideline intended to streamline this process.

Ep83: Loving Medicine Again

We continue the theme of responding to burnout by getting some of advice from doctors turned career coaches. We also hear from a respected occupational physician, and a listener with an simple message to raise morale between colleagues.

Ep82: Coming back from Burnout—Congress 2022

At Congress 2022 physicians shared the dramatic adversities that had forced them to take charge and rethink their roles in medicine. Burnout should be considered not as a mental health condition but as an occupational disorder that requires collective responsibility.

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