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Pomegranate Health

A podcast about the culture of medicine.

You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss improvements healthcare. Topics cover clinical judgement, ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable health systems. For a sampler of these diverse themes 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 clinical exams.

Please leave feedback in the comments section for each episode or send an email to podcast@racp.edu.au.

Latest episodes

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.

[Case Report] 68yo with cardiometabolic risk factors and transient monocular vision loss

This first episode in our [Case Report] format. Developed by Trainees to demonstrate a structured approach to diagnostic reasoning and case presentation.

[Journal Club] Baricitinib immune therapy for new onset type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes has a very high treatment burden but may now be possible to delay the progression of disease. Daily therapy with the immune modulator baricitinib has been shown to preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed adults and children.

Ep106: The whiskey fix and the apple of Granada

Strange tales from archives of medical history.

Ep105: When parents and paediatrics clash

Disputes over the care of paediatric patients have become more frequent and more intense. Mediation skills can help avoid these and minimise moral injury to parents and healthcare staff.

[IMJ On-Air] Is the jury still out on omega-3 supplementation?

For many years now clinical guidelines have explicitly encouraged dietary intake of omega-3s fatty acids for those at high cardiovascular risk. Such recommendations come despite considerable inconsistency in the outcomes from interventions studies over the years.

[IMJ On-Air] HepatoCare: a model for palliative and supportive care in advanced cirrhosis

Patients diagnosed with advanced cirrhosis have poor prognosis and quality of life but only a fraction are referred to palliative care services. Hepatocare is a model of care designed to reduce this gap.

Ep102: Staying on script with semaglutide

Semaglutide has proven effectiveness for glycaemic control and weight loss as well as predictable benefits for cardiovascular and metabolic health. But the unprecedented demand from the wider population has posed a problem for regulators and prescribers.

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.