On The Wards: On The Pods Medical Podcast for Doctors

James talks to Arjun Rao about febrile convulsions, which typically occur in children between 3 months and 6 years of age.

Summary Writer:  Viola Korczak

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee:  Arjun Rao

About Dr Arjun Rao

Dr Arjun Rao is a Staff Specialist in Paediatric Emergency at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick and a Conjoint Lecturer in Medicine at The University of NSW. He is a member of Advanced Paediatric Life Support, Australasia and regularly instructs on both provider and instructor courses. Arj is involved in Simulation training at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick and completed the Harvard Institute for Medical Simulation “Simulation as a Teaching Tool” course at the Australian Institute of Medical Simulation in 2012. He also has an interest in online learning and been involved in a number of online education projects. Arjun completed his medical degree at the University of Sydney and FRACP in Paediatrics and Paediatric Emergency at Royal Australian College of physicians.

Summary writer:  Jorja Braden

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Shafqat Inam

James talks to Dr Shafqat Inam about Thrombosis and Thrombophilia and when it is appropriate to investigate for underlying causes of thromboembolism and outline initial management.

Shafqat Inam is currently a Haematology registrar at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Hospital and Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales and completed his junior medical officer and basic physician training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He has a particular interest in research and medical education.

James talks to Dr Shafqat Inam about Thrombosis and Thrombophilia and when it is appropriate to investigate for underlying causes of thromboembolism and outline initial management.

Summary writer:  Jorja Braden

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Shafqat Inam

About Dr Shafqat Inam

Shafqat Inam is currently a Haematology registrar at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Hospital and Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales and completed his junior medical officer and basic physician training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He has a particular interest in research and medical education.

Editor:  James Edwards

Summary writer:  Bi Yi Chen

Interviewee: Barbara Depczynski

James talks to Dr Barbara Depczynski about stress steroids.

Steroids are commonly charted by junior doctors on the wards. Understanding their side effects and the requirement to consider stress doses associated with chronic steroid use is vital.

Barbara Depczynski is a senior staff specialist in Endocrinology at Prince of Wales Hospital. Barbara’s major interests are type 2 diabetes, inpatient diabetes management, pituitary disease and PCOS. She serves on ACI In Hospital Diabetes Management Working Group. Barbara is involved with both undergraduate and post graduate teaching.

James talks to Dr Barbara Depczynski about stress steroids.

Steroids are commonly charted by junior doctors on the wards. Understanding their side effects and the requirement to consider stress doses associated with chronic steroid use is vital.

Editor:  James Edwards

Summary writer:  Bi Yi Chen

Interviewee: Barbara Depczynski

About Dr Barbara Depczynski

Barbara Depczynski is a senior staff specialist in Endocrinology at Prince of Wales Hospital. Barbara’s major interests are type 2 diabetes, inpatient diabetes management, pituitary disease and PCOS. She serves on ACI In Hospital Diabetes Management Working Group. Barbara is involved with both undergraduate and post graduate teaching.

Summary Writer: Cynthia Yang

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Shafqat Inam

James talks to Dr Shafqat Inam about an approach to the management of bleeding disorders.

Shafqat Inam is currently a Haematology Registrar at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Hospital and Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney.  He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales and completed his junior medical officer and Basic Physician Training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.  He has a particular interest in research and medical education.

James talks to Dr Shafqat Inam about an approach to the management of bleeding disorders.

Summary Writer: Cynthia Yang

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Shafqat Inam

About Dr Shafqat Inam

Shafqat Inam is currently a Haematology Registrar at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Hospital and Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales and completed his junior medical officer and Basic Physician Training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He has a particular interest in research and medical education.

Summary Writer:  Linda Wu

Editor:  Bruce Way

Interviewee: Amanda Walker

Dr Bruce Way, Emergency Physician and Director of Prevocational Education and Training at Prince of Wales Hospital talks to Dr Amanda Walker about the serious yet common, costly and potentially lethal problem of diagnostic errors.

Associate Professor Amanda Walker is a Specialist in Palliative Medicine, working as a Clinical Director at the Clinical Excellence Commission. Amanda leads a project analysing and addressing diagnostic error in NSW Health facilities, as well as the End of Life Program and Organisational Development and Human Factors. She came to the Clinical Excellence Commission having worked as a clinician, educator and administrator in South Western Sydney.

Dr Bruce Way talks to Dr Amanda Walker about diagnostic errors. These errors are serious yet common, costly, and potentially a lethal problem.

In this podcast you will learn more about the following:

What are diagnostic errors?

What are some common causes of these types of errors?

The impact of our cognitive bias.

What are some ambient and environmental factors that may place junior doctors at a high risk of committing a diagnostic error?

We will also go through steps to prevent making errors when diagnosing patients.

Summary Writer:  Linda Wu

Editor:  Bruce Way

Interviewee:  Amanda Walker

About Dr Amanda Walker and Dr Bruce Way

Associate Professor Amanda Walker is a Specialist in Palliative Medicine. She is working as a Clinical Director at the Clinical Excellence Commission. Amanda leads a project analysing and addressing diagnostic errors in NSW Health facilities. Furthermore, she also works with the End of Life Program and Organisational Development and Human Factors. She came to the Clinical Excellence Commission having worked as a clinician, educator and administrator in South Western Sydney.

Dr Bruce Way is an Emergency Physician and Director of Prevocational Education and Training at Prince of Wales Hospital.

Summary:  James Patterson

Editor:  Bruce Way

Interviewee: Darren Roberts

James talks to Dr Darren Roberts talks about hyponatraemia, a common yet confusing topic for junior doctors on the wards.

Darren Roberts is a physician working in both clinical Pharmacology/Toxicology and Nephrology in Sydney and Canberra and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. He is the current chair of the clinical pharmacology Special Interest Group and a member of various national and international government, professional and clinical committees. Darren’s research interests include pharmacokinetics and drug dosing in impaired renal function, influence of dialysis on xenobiotic clearance and evidence-based clinical toxicology.

Darren works part time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital as a clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist and undertook a portion of his renal training in Royal Prince Alfred and Concord Hospitals.