MEM Cast

Dr Tanzida Haque gave us a brief overview of Depression. 

Studies show even qualified Health Care Professionals are poor at understanding basic concepts such as sensitivity, specificity (measures of test accuracy) and issues to do with probability…  Do you know what Bayes’ Theorem is?  Do you know your predictive values?  Why can even highly sensitive tests miss diseases? Listen to the weeks episode of MEMcast with Dr Rachel Saville and Dr Nicola Cooper...

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 m...

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. 

Migraine is a common disabling condition that is often encountered in clinical settings. This week we have Dr Mahjabin Islam, NIHR academic fellow, currently working in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, discussing about migraine. 

This week, Dr Rachel Saville (Respiratory Registrar) explains the 2015 BTS guidance for home oxygen, the difference between LTOT and SBOT, NOT, and AOT! She describes the recommendations for blood gas testing, followup and runs though a 'standard' home oxygen prescription. Happy listening!  

This week one of your MEM hosts Dr Cristina Cusu, Renal Registrar in Leicester, speaks to you about causes and management of anaemia in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. Enjoy listening. 

On this episode , Dr Hina Khan is discussing about Motor neuron Disease , it's pathophysiology, variants and clinical features and presentation. 

Dr Tom Crabtree and Dr Rachel Saville discuss the new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. When to think about it, what tests to arrange and how to get your patients into follow-up and started on insulin! 

This week we are happy to welcome Dr Matthew Graham-Brown Consultant Nephrologist in Leicester (Glenfield and Leicester General Hospital). Dr Graham-Brown is going to discuss Cardio-Renal Syndrome (CRS) with us, we all in medicine encounter the clinical conundrum of a patient that is fluid overloaded and might have acute or chronic kidney or heart failure.  Listen to this excellent talk for tips o...

Point-of-care ultrasound is rapidly gaining an evidence base to support its use as an aide to traditional management techniques in the acutely unwell adult patients. This episode DR Latif Raiyan Rahman talks about POCUS and its implications, limitations and training opportunities. 

Geneticist, Dr Nora Shannon, joins your MEMcast host, Dr Rachel Saville to discuss the diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis type 1. We discuss its inheritance pattern and the diagnostic criteria, and how to distinguish from NF2 in your practice and your exams!

In this episode Dr Sharon Man joins Dr Cristina Cusu once again to continue discussion on cardiac syncope, discussing cardiac arrhythmia in context of syncope. Narrow complex tachycardia, broad complex tachycardia, bundle branch block, AV block all discussed in this episode and we finish with other investigations like ECHO or EP studies. Enjoy listening. 

Dr Hina Khan is giving an informative talk on GBS -diagnostic criteria,investigation, treatment and prognosis. 

This week's MEMcast host, Dr Rachel Saville is joined by genetic councillor, Keri Oliver to talk about Huntingtons Disease.  We discuss: - Confidentiality and communication skills: Think PACES communication and ethics station! - Diagnostic vs predictive testing  - Counselling - Inheritance and impact of a diagnosis

We are delighted to be joined by Dr Sharon Man, senior cardiology registrar in East Midlands. Dr Man is going to discuss syncope in general and cardiac syncope in particular: epidemiology, history taking and high risk features. We are going to be lucky and get her to join in for one of our next episode to discuss rhythm abnormalities in context of syncope. Enjoy listening. 

Guillian Barre Syndrome is a neurological emergency which consists  of heterogeneous clinical syndromes characterized by acute immune mediated polyneuropathy.