MEM Cast

This weeks episode of MEMcast with Dr Rachel Saville and Dr Nicola Cooper discusses the problems of teaching history and examination skills in its 'traditional' format, and how it can contribute to diagnostic error. We let you know where to find the info you need to practice evidenced based medicine yourselves. Don't forget to subscribe to MEMcast or follow us on instagram @mem.cast so you don't miss an episode! 

On this episode Dr Rafid Ahmed, Trainee Specialty Registrar,  talks us through an overview of heart blocks and how to approach as junior doctors. 

In this episode, we welcome Dr Nicola Cooper to MEMcast for the first of 6 episodes on Clinical Reasoning - explaining what it is and what it isn’t, the problem of diagnostic error and discussing the international consensus that Clinical Reasoning needs to be taught explicitly and systematically in the healthcare professions.

We are happy to be joined once again by Dr Tom Skinner, Haematology Registrar in Taunton and Somerset. Dr Skinner is going to discuss immune thrombocytopaenic purpura or ITP and go through diagnosis and management. Have a listen to improve your haematology knowledge, excellent discussion if we may say so ourselves. 

On this episode we covered the presentations, diagnostic criteria, investigation, treatment and prognosis of MND. Dr Hina Khan, Specialty Registrar, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has delivered this very informative talk. 

In this episode of MEMcast, we discuss paraneoplastic syndromes associated with lung cancer with guest speaker, Dr Emma O'Dowd (consultant respiratory physician at NUH) and your host, Dr Rachel Saville. Listen here to learn a little about lambert eaton myaesthenic syndrome, limbic encephalitis and hypercalcemia and more.

We are happy to be joined by Dr Radek Debiec Cardiology and Congenital heart disease registrar at Glenfield hospital. Dr Debiec is going to discuss Coarctation of Ao- diagnosis and management. Listen to know more about one of the most common congenital heart disease. 

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinico-radiological syndrome characterized by a headache, seizures, altered mental status and visual loss.
This week we have Dr Mahjabin Islam, Academic Clinical Fellow , NIHR, currently working at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, guiding us through PRES. 

Listen to our latest episode on pleural infection, with our guest speaker Dr Nicola Downer (consultant respiratory physician at Kings Mill Hospital). Find out how to interpret pleural taps, get yourself up to date with the new BTS guidelines on pleural infection and its management, and learn when to involve the surgeons or consider intra-pleural therapies. 

We are delighted to be joined once again by Dr Ameen Jubber, Consultant Rheumatologist at Leicester. Dr Jubber is going to discuss early inflammatory arthritis in general and give us a rheumatoid arthritis refresher in particular.