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Welcome to Med Reg News, the podcast all about helping you as medical trainees to stay up to speed with all the most important and up-to-date expert opinion in your specialty. We want to help make your learning fun, memorable and interactive.Whether you’re working in gastroenterology, cardiology or geriatrics, we’ve got you covered. We’ve spoken to some of the brightest and most experienced consultants in the country to help you grapple with the toughest topics you might face on the wards, and our aim is to break them down into manageable, bite-sized chunks. This is something we’ve been creating for a while, and we’re so excited to share it with you. My name is Stephen, I’m an elderly care doctor and teaching fellow based at East Surrey Hospital, and I am one of the team behind the MDTea Podcast which has been helping people learn more about elderly care and ageing since 2016 (and is well worth a listen if you get the chance).But what we’d love to provide with this new series of podcasts is somewhere for registrar-level trainees, like you, to gain insight and expert opinion from consultants on the topics that are most important to you when it comes to life on the wards.If you enjoy the episodes, or have questions off the back of what you hear, please get in touch with us at medregnews@gmail.com or on Twitter @medregnews. These episodes are all designed to help you, so we’d love to know if there’s anything else you’d like us to include in the future. Hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we’ve enjoyed putting them together!

Episodes

  1. Episode 9 - Channelopathies

    10/20/2022

    Episode 9 - Channelopathies

    Time to explore another complex corner of cardiology with a new expert guest to lend a hand. In this episode we’re going to be thinking about channelopathies. Which ones do you as a cardiology trainee need to be aware of? What are the causes? How do we diagnose and manage them? All will become clear, we hope, after you listen to Episode 9 of Med Reg News today. We’re delighted to be joined by the fantastic Prof Pier Lambiase, consultant cardiologist and the Professor of Cardiology at University College London and Barts Heart Centre. Prof Lambiase breaks down this tricky topic into manageable chunks for us today, and we trust that you’ll all take as many helpful tips away from it as we did from chatting to him! If you enjoy this episode or any of our other Med Reg News podcast material, please fire us a message and say hi! You can email us at medregnews@gmail.com, or follow us on Twitter @medregnews. We love hearing all of your comments. Hope you’re keeping well, and we’ll catch up with you again at the same time next week! Links: Brugada calculator: www.brugadariskscore.com  Brugada drugs website: www.brugadadrugs.org ESC guidelines on sudden cardiac death (published August 2022): https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Ventricular-Arrhythmias-and-the-Prevention-of-Sudden-Cardiac-Death  JACC EP paper about the BRUGADA-RISK score by Prof Lambiase and colleagues (published 2021): https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacep.2020.08.032

    25 min
  2. Episode 6 – Hepatitis Research Today

    09/22/2022

    Episode 6 – Hepatitis Research Today

    So good to have you back with us for Episode 6 of Gastro News. And we’ve got a real treat in store for you this time. If you can remember back to Episode 1, you’ll know that we’ve already dipped our toes in the world of viral hepatitis with Dr Matthew Cowan. And if you missed that one, please go back and have a listen to it! But now we’re going to take that topic one step further, and look at the cutting-edge research being done into hepatitis today. It’s such a privilege to have an expert in this field join us today, to help us grasp more of why research into viral hepatitis is so important and so relevant for the patients we might encounter in our outpatient clinics and on our wards. Prof Sumita Verma is a hepatologist and clinical academic at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She has a real passion for seeing better, broader research done into viral hepatitis, and she firmly believes that with active case-finding in vulnerable people groups hepatitis C can be eliminated within our lifetime. During our chat we touch on everything from Professor Verma’s university days in India, to her thoughts on the pros and cons of the American Health system, as well as hearing her hopes for the future of hepatology. If you have any questions or comments after listening, please drop us an email at medregnews@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @medregnews. It’s been great having your company throughout this series, and we hope to see you soon!

    34 min
  3. Episode 1 – Viral Hepatitis

    08/17/2022

    Episode 1 – Viral Hepatitis

    Welcome to the very first episode of our brand new podcast, Med Reg News. And to be more specific, Episode 1 of Gastro News. This is the first of many podcast episodes we’ll be producing under the wider family of new podcast resources called Med Reg News. And it’s amazing to have you join us for the ride! Within Med Reg News, we’re going to start out with a handful of mini-series of episodes focusing on gastroenterology, cardiology and geriatrics, and in due course we hope to cover other medical specialties too. So if you’re tuning in to this and you’d like us to put together episodes focused on your own area of medicine, please give us a shout! We’ll do whatever we can to help streamline your learning as you take the next step on your journey through the unique and exciting – but sometimes daunting – world of medicine. In Episode 1, we’re discussing viral hepatitis with Dr Matthew Cowan, who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust. He is also the Lead Clinician for the Nutrition Service and is Honorary Consultant Hepatologist at St George’s Hospital, London where he helps run clinical trials of new treatments for viral hepatitis.  We’re thrilled to have Dr Cowan join us for this opening episode, and would love to hear any questions or feedback you have after hearing our discussion with him. Please get in touch with us on Twitter @medregnews or via email at medregnews@gmail.com. You’re the reason we put all of this together. Really hope you enjoy it!

    19 min

About

Welcome to Med Reg News, the podcast all about helping you as medical trainees to stay up to speed with all the most important and up-to-date expert opinion in your specialty. We want to help make your learning fun, memorable and interactive.Whether you’re working in gastroenterology, cardiology or geriatrics, we’ve got you covered. We’ve spoken to some of the brightest and most experienced consultants in the country to help you grapple with the toughest topics you might face on the wards, and our aim is to break them down into manageable, bite-sized chunks. This is something we’ve been creating for a while, and we’re so excited to share it with you. My name is Stephen, I’m an elderly care doctor and teaching fellow based at East Surrey Hospital, and I am one of the team behind the MDTea Podcast which has been helping people learn more about elderly care and ageing since 2016 (and is well worth a listen if you get the chance).But what we’d love to provide with this new series of podcasts is somewhere for registrar-level trainees, like you, to gain insight and expert opinion from consultants on the topics that are most important to you when it comes to life on the wards.If you enjoy the episodes, or have questions off the back of what you hear, please get in touch with us at medregnews@gmail.com or on Twitter @medregnews. These episodes are all designed to help you, so we’d love to know if there’s anything else you’d like us to include in the future. Hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we’ve enjoyed putting them together!