Talk Evidence - Diabetes data, colonoscopies, and researchers behaving badly
In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, is joined again by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Joe Ross, US research editor. They're straying beyond the pages of The BMJ, and discussing an NEJM paper about colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening. We have a listener request, asking about evidence for England's " NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme" - what do we know about how lifestyle interventions work at a population level? Juan puts on his Cochrane hat to answer the query. We stay with diabetes, and Joe tells us about his research trying to see if routinely co...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 2, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Doctor informed - sustainability isn't just waste management
In this episode of Doctor Informed, we're talking sustainability. The BMJ has a special edition on the climate crisis, and finding hope amid dispair - and we want to help our listeners with some of that. Clara is joined by three of the NHS's sustainability fellows, Florence, Who is a medical registrar, Emily a paedatrics trainee, and Li, an anaesthetics trainee For more on the climate crisis, read The BMJ's special editionhttps://www.bmj.com/content/379/8356 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Doctor informed - sustainability isn ’t just waste management
In this episode of Doctor Informed, we're talking sustainability. The BMJ has a special edition on the climate crisis, and finding hope amid dispair - and we want to help our listeners with some of that. Clara is joined by three of the NHS's sustainability fellows, Florence, Who is a medical registrar, Emily a paedatrics trainee, and Li, an anaesthetics trainee For more on the climate crisis, read The BMJ's special edition https://www.bmj.com/content/379/8356 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - Inquiring about covid, burnout, and marginal data
It's October's Talk Evidence, and that means the autumn is upon us including those autumnal viruses. Here in the UK covid is on the rise, and Joe Ross is looking at some research on how good those elusive lateral flows are at detecting infection among people with symptoms of covid. Juan will give us an update on the covid inquiry, the collection of analysis articles The BMJ is publishing looking at the interface of evidence and policy in our decisions about how to handle the pandemic. Since the pandemic moral among clinicians in many health systems has fallen even further, workloads have spiralled. Coupled with other pro...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Inquiring about covid, burnout, and marginal data
It's October's Talk Evidence, and that means the autumn is upon us including those autumnal viruses. Here in the UK covid is on the rise, and Joe Ross is looking at some research on how good those elusive lateral flows are at detecting infection among people with symptoms of covid. Juan will give us an update on the covid inquiry, the collection of analysis articles The BMJ is publishing looking at the interface of evidence and policy in our decisions about how to handle the pandemic. Since the pandemic moral among clinicians in many health systems has fallen even further, workloads have spiralled. Coupled with other pro...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - Inquiring about covid, burnout, and marginal data
It's October's Talk Evidence, and that means the autumn is upon us including those autumnal viruses. Here in the UK covid is on the rise, and Joe Ross is looking at some research on how good those elusive lateral flows are at detecting infection among people with symptoms of covid. Juan will give us an update on the covid inquiry, the collection of analysis articles The BMJ is publishing looking at the interface of evidence and policy in our decisions about how to handle the pandemic. Since the pandemic moral among clinicians in many health systems has fallen even further, workloads have spiralled. Coupled with other pro...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Doctor Informed - the generational divide
It's zoomers vs boomers on this week's Doctor Informed, as we assemble a multigenerational team to talk about the "good old days" and if the youth of today are really snowflakes.Clara Munro is joined by Nikki Nabavi, a medical student at Manchester University and a regular on Sharp Scratch (The BMJ's student podcast); Ayisha Ashmoore, an trainee in obstetrics and gynaecology, in the East Midlands; and Alastair Munro, a retired professor of oncology (and Clara's dad). (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 27, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Doctor Informed - the generational divide
It's zoomers vs boomers on this week's Doctor Informed, as we assemble a multigenerational team to talk about the "good old days" and if the youth of today are really snowflakes. Clara Munro is joined by Nikki Nabavi, a medical student at Manchester University and a regular on Sharp Scratch (The BMJ's student podcast); Ayisha Ashmoore, an trainee in obstetrics and gynaecology, in the East Midlands; and Alastair Munro, a retired professor of oncology (and Clara's dad). (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 27, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Doctor Informed - what to expect from an inquest
In our new season of Doctor Important, we'll be discussing topics that are not always talked about, and today, by popular request of our listners, we're talking about Coroner's Court and inquests - two things that strike terror into doctors, but are often not as bad as you may fear. Our panel; Clara Munro is a surgical trainee in the North East Deanery. She's joined by her colleage Katie Strong, another surgical trainee. We also have returning to Doctor Informed Ayisha Ashmore, an Obs and Gynae registrar in the East Midlands.Our Expert guest this week is Beth Walker, a former palliative care registrar who now works as an ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Doctor Informed - what to expect from an inquest
In our new season of Doctor Important, we'll be discussing topics that are not always talked about, and today, by popular request of our listners, we're talking about Coroner's Court and inquests - two things that strike terror into doctors, but are often not as bad as you may fear. Our panel; Clara Munro is a surgical trainee in the North East Deanery. She's joined by her colleage Katie Strong, another surgical trainee. We also have returning to Doctor Informed Ayisha Ashmore, an Obs and Gynae registrar in the East Midlands. Our Expert guest this week is Beth Walker, a former palliative care registrar who now works as a...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Series 1 wrap up
This is our last episode of series 1 of Doctor Informed, and with it we're coming full circle. Clara will be talking to our first two guests, Mary Dixon-Woods and Bill Kirkup, having now heard from all of our other experts over this series. In this first series, we've learned about speaking out, team work, compassionate leadership - all the things that are needed to help clinicians challenge the status quo, So in this episode, we'll be asking Mary how much she thinks things have changed, and Bill how he manages a career challenging the healthcare system. Our guests Mary Dixon-Woods is director of THIS Institute, and a ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Series 1 wrap up
This is our last episode of series 1 of Doctor Informed, and with it we're coming full circle. Clara will be talking to our first two guests, Mary Dixon-Woods and Bill Kirkup, having now heard from all of our other experts over this series. In this first series, we've learned about speaking out, team work, compassionate leadership - all the things that are needed to help clinicians challenge the status quo, So in this episode, we'll be asking Mary how much she thinks things have changed, and Bill how he manages a career challenging the healthcare system. Our guests Mary Dixon-Woods is director of THIS Institute, and a ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectiveness
In this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universit ät and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat. They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now. We'll take a look at a study of industry sponsorship of cost effectiveness analysis, and seeing similar patters of publication bias to RCTs. And finally we'll be talking about new research on the ongoing, and emergent pandemics - covid and monkeypox. Readin...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 24, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectiveness
In this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat. They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now. We'll take a look at a study of industry sponsorship of cost effectiveness analysis, and seeing similar patters of publication bias to RCTs. And finally we'll be talking about new research on the ongoing, and emergent pandemics - covid and monkeypox. Reading...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 24, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Reflecting on a crisis
Previous Doctor Informed episodes have discussed how to prevent patient safety issues from occurring, but sometimes situations are beyond anyone's control - like COVID. It can be hard to look back, especially if difficult decisions and compromises were made, including ones we did not completely agree with, or if there could be criticism of the way we responded. We ask how individual doctors, teams, and organisations could respond to and recover from major problems? In this episode, we're joined by Annelieke Driessen, a THIS Institute fellow and medical anthropologist. She is a research fellow at the University of Oxford ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts