Pre PACES Podcast

This week Sam was joined by Dr Iain Wilkinson, consultant geriatrician and fantastic host of the MDTea podcast (link below!). Sam & Iain discuss the basics of Parkinsonism, features on examination, differential diagnoses, investigations and management. Iain tackles Quiz the Consultant on the topic of Folk Music!

07:00 Basics of Parkinsonism

15:35 Examination

33:00 Differential diagnoses of Parkinsonism

38:36 Investigations

42:40 Management

53:00 Quiz the consultant

Music:

Chase & Superepic by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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This episode we invited back Dr Jennie Gough, to reflect on her IMT training program. She gives us the good, the bad and the ugly of the new internal medical training programme. Sam & Jenn also reflect on their time being the Med Reg on call and give a ton of advice that they would have wanted to know on starting as a new medical reg!

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Sam was joined this week by Respiratory Consultant, Dr Diana Kavanagh, host of the Respiratory GURU podcast to discuss Bronchiectasis as a PACES station. We talk through every aspect of examination, investigations and ongoing management. Diana also tackles Quiz the Consultant, choosing George Ezra as her specialist subject!

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Timestamps:

06:30 Basics of bronchiectasis

09:45 Examination

25:00 Presentation

30:00 Differential diagnosis

35:15 Investigations

43:50 Management

1:00:00 Quiz the Consultant

Music:

Chase & Superepic by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Welcome to the second part of Sam's sit down with Dr Anita Banerjee (@anitaobsmed), Consultant in Obstetric Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetes and General Medicine. In this episode, Sam and Anita discuss hypertension in pregnancy along with asthma, epilepsy and heart failure. Anita also tackles Harry Potter as her Quiz the Consultant topic!

Timestamps:

02:30 Hypertension in pregnancy

13:00 Investigations and management of HTN in pregnancy

24:30 Asthma in pregnancy

25:40 Epilepsy in pregnancy

29:25 Heart failure in pregnancy

38:00 Quiz the Consultant: Harry Potter

Music:

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In this episode, Sam was joined by Dr Anita Banerjee (@anitaobsmed) to discuss the topic of pregnancy in PACES and the emerging specialty of Obstetric Medicine! In this first part, Anita and Sam discuss two HUGE topics of gestational diabetes and venous thromboembolism in pregnancy, covering all the pertinent aspects of managing these patients which can be, at best, daunting and, at worst, TERRIFYING.

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Sam chats to neurology SpR Dr Tom Minton about Myotonic dystrophy, covering every possible clinical sign whether it's a peripheral nerve examination or a cranial nerve examination. 

Tom also tackles Reg Against the Machine on a topic very close to his heart....you'll have to listen to find out! 

Timestamps:

Basics of MD: 3:30

Cranial nerve exam 9:40

Peripheral nerve exam 12:50

Gold star signs: 16:45

Differential diagnosis, investigations and management 18:30

Music:

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This episode Sam brings Dr Tommy Isaac aboard the podcast to discuss a topic which comes up very often in PACES and that is confidentiality. Given this is a topic which spans across all ages I should probably provide full disclosure that Tommy is a paediatric registrar, but he's been generous enough to take some time out from watching cartoons and colouring in to join us to discuss this potentially hazardous topic!

Timestamps:

3:36 Principles of confidentiality

22:51 Case scenarios

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Welcome back to the second part of Sam's sit down with Dr Ajay Verma to discuss inflammatory bowel disease! This episode looks at the investigations and management of IBD before covering some tricky examiner questions & after that Ajay tackles Premier League goalscorers as his Quiz the Consultant topic!

Timestamps:

01:00 Investigations

5:50 Management

15:30 Examiner questions

24:10 Quiz the Consultant

Music:

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This episode Sam sits down with Twitter Gastro Guru Dr Ajay Verma to discuss inflammatory bowel disease. Ajay was so generous with his time and expertise that this is another double header episode! Look out in future for the next episode where Ajay will face Quiz the Consultant with the specialist topic of Premier League top goalscorers! 

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Welcome to the first episode of 2022! This time round Sam was joined by Neurology SpR Dr Anna Francis to discuss Myasthenia Gravis! 

We covered the pertinent history points, examination, investigations and management of these patients before Anna was subjected to Reg Against the Machine!

Timestamps:

3:55 Introduction (including neurology station top tips)

10:05 History

24:20 Differential Diagnosis

34:20 Examination

45:20 Investigations

51:30 Management

56:44 Reg Against the Machine

Music:

Chase & Superepic by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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