Pomegranate Health
A podcast about the culture of medicine.
You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss all aspects of professionalism and quality improvement in healthcare. This includes clinical ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable systems.
For a sampler of these diverse themes of professional practice 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 activity to MyCPD" button. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series might help you prepare for your long case clinical exams.
This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal sharing their latest research. Meanwhile, the [Journal Club] episodes give RACP members a place to talk through their research published in other academic journals.
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
[Case Report] 46yo with psychosis and cold intolerance
A 46 yo man is admitted with a florid experience of psychosis associated with occasional dizziness and an intolerance of cold. Physical examination reveals symptoms consistent with hypothyroidism but what could be the cause?
Ep132: Ten Years of Pomegranate Health
Pomegranate Health marks ten years of podcasting so we delve into the back catalogue to showcase some of the most compelling stories. You’ll also hear how podcast themes are identified from all the domains of medicine of professionalism.
Ep131: The semantics of CPR
In this podcast we discuss some low-value care that has come about from semantic decay in the specificity of the terms “cardiac arrest” and “cardiopulmonary resuscitation”.
Ep130: "The motherhood penalty"
Female representation over to more senior stages of a medical career suffers from a “leaky pipeline”. A major factor in this is the time taken out to raise children but there are practical interventions that can be implemented and biases than need overturning.
Ep128: Brushing off the cobwebs
Taking long breaks from medicine for can lead to loss of skills and confidence. Simulation training is an effective way to brush off the cobwebs before returning to practice.
Ep126: Trying times for Māori medics
Medical schools in Aotearoa-New Zealand have turbocharged their intake of Māori and Pasifika students but these graduates have not trickled through to the RACP’s training programs in great numbers. We take a look at the culture of training environments and also the recent politicking over Māori self-governance.
[Case Report] 52yo with hand clumsiness after Chiari operation
52-year-old female presenting with clumsiness and paresthesia of the right hand had three weeks prior undergone a suboccipital craniotomy for a Chiari malformation. She had accompanying headaches, but there was a past medical history of migraines and a family history of a Factor V Leiden mutation.
Ep124: Pleural medicine comes of age
Professor Gary Lee established the first dedicated pleural service in the southern hemisphere in 2009. In this podcast he summarises key developments in the management of pleural disease over the last thirty years.