MEM Cast

In today’s episode, Dr Innocent Munzeiwa joins us again to walk us through Systemic sclerosis and its management. 

Join us this week on MEMcast as we talk to QI royalty, Dr Aklak Choudhury from Derby Royal Hospital. This episode will help you understand the difference between QI and audit, and give you some tip on how to get started with your own QI project! 

Your MEM host Dr Cristina Cusu, Renal Registrar in Leicester, discussed progression to end stage renal failure, symptoms, how these patients are managed by the renal team and what you should be looking out for when you see these patients during on calls. Enjoy listening. 

Join us in the week’s episode where Rheumatology registrar, Dr Innocent Munzeiwa, gives us the run through on Dermatomyositis. 

One of our palliative care registrars in the East Midlands, Dr Connie Gillman, talks about antiemetics - in this episode we discuss special circumstances, contraindications and side effects. 

We are delighted to be joined once again by Professor James Burton, Nephrology Consultant in Leicester to discuss common issues in haemodialysis patients that you might encounter during your on calls. Enjoy listening. 

In this episode, our host, Dr Demi Wright, talks us through the in’s and out’s of chest drains. 

It gives us great pleasure to introduce Dr Connie Gillman, a palliative care registrar in the East Midlands who is going to shed some light on antiemetics this week. We will be discussing how to choose the right one for your patient.  Thinking about mechanisms of action, receptors and side effects... give it a listen and leave us any feedback in the comments! 

We are joined by Dr Fasi Khan, Respiratory Consultant at Glenfield Hospital for the second part of our interstitial lung disease podcast. We discuss management, focusing on IPF. Enjoy listening. 

Join us in this week’s episode as Dr James Morris joins us again to talk to us about Lumbar punctures. 

In this episode, respiratory registrar and MEMcast host Dr Rachel Saville explains an approach to PE followup. Find out how to assess a patient's risk for future PEs, and why there is a shift towards recommending lifelong anticoagulation in unprovoked PE. Finally, you will learn about one of the complications of PE, CTEPH.  Happy listening! 

Join us in this week’s podcast, where MEMCast hosts, Dr Rachel Saville, Dr Cristina Cusu and Dr Demi Wright talk about their experiences and advice for preparing for the PACES examination. 

We are delighted to welcome Dr Fasi Khan, Consultant Respiratory Physician in Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. Dr Khan will discuss interstitial lung disease with us, focusing on IPF diagnosis and investigations. Enjoy listening. 

It was a delight to speak to Ian Ferris on MEMcast this week, who is the smoking cessation team lead at Kings Mill Hospital in the East Midlands. This episode explains ‘Very Brief Advice’ and what behavioural support and medications are available to help people quit.   

In this week’s episode, Dr Bowman talks through another of the NICE chest pain guidelines: CG126 (2016) – which covers the management of Stable Angina.    We’re not talking about primary prevention of coronary artery disease; we’re talking about symptom management of stable angina.    We’ll discuss:  ·      Drugs  ·      Lifestyle modifications ·      Invasive management options   Have a go at our...

Did you get our question of the week right over on our instagram page?  If you haven't had a go, check it out @mem.cast to test your knowledge before listening to this weeks episode... Dr Bowman and Dr Saville discuss Stable Angina in more detail, focussing on the investigations most appropriate in this setting. Happy listening!

Introducing Dr Richard Bowman, one of our MEMcast team and Acute Medical Registrar in the East Midlands. We talk about NICE guidelines in this episode, with an introduction to the chest pain clinical guideline - NICE CG95.  Find out: - How and why NICE guidelines are written  - Why NICE guidelines might be different to the protocols / guidelines in your local hospital  - How to risk stratify your...

In the last of our 6-part series on Clinical Reasoning with Dr Nicola Cooper, we discuss metacognition, reflection, and how it influences our decision making.    Whilst knowledge definitely matters in diagnosing and managing cases, research in psychology shows other things matter too. As well as motivation (including empathy), mood, ambient conditions and cognitive style has a significant impact –...

Join us again this week, we continue from last week's episode and discuss a few cases to explain the principles of escalating care in our daily practice. We are delighted to have Dr Latif Rahman join us once again. Listen for some valuable advice and clinical examples. Enjoy listening. 

Join us this week for an excellent episode on the principles of escalation of patients that need enhanced care. Dr Latif Rahman, Chief Registrar in Leicester Hospitals explains his process of thinking. Extremely valuable for your on calls. 

We are delighted to welcome Professor Sue Carr, Consultant Nephrologist at Leicester General Hospital. We are discussing acute kidney injury in pregnancy, how to diagnose it and how we as physicians, can manage it without being overwhelmed. Essential episode to download/listen. 

This week, Dr Cooper (Acute Medical Consultant and Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Nottingham) joins MEMcast to discuss cognitive biases.  Do cognitive biases help or hinder?  How much do they contribute to diagnostic error compared with knowledge deficits?  Listen here to find out more...

We are delighted to be joined this week once again by Dr Patrick Davey Consultant Cardiologist. We are discussing management and outcome of pulmonary hypertension in this second part of our Pulmonary Hypertension podcast. Enjoy listening, 

Listen here to our latest episode of MEMcast. Dr Nicola Cooper talks about Problem Representation – what it is and why it matters... Language and memory are heavily intertwined. The language we use when representing a problem mentally (before trying to solve it) makes a dramatic difference to diagnostic accuracy, especially in complex cases. 

We are delighted to welcome back Dr Davey, Consultant Cardiologist to discuss pulmonary hypertension diagnosis. This is the first out of 2 parts so please stay tuned as we discuss management and outcome in one of our next episodes. Enjoy listening.