Podcasts

Earning CPD by listening to Healthed podcasts is simple. Each episode is eligible for Educational Activities CPD. 

Dr Joe Dusseldorp

Virtual planning for head and neck reconstruction, a comprehensive multi-disciplinary task that is highly detailed to create prosthetics to exacting standards and precision

Dr Ridia Lim

The types of traditional and novel treatments for glaucoma

Expert/s: Dr Ridia Lim
Dr Rachael Sharman

How approximately 50% of your patients, mostly the younger ones, would have looked up their health problem before seeing you

Dr Pamela Douglas

The current WHO guidelines and recommendations around breastfeeding

Dr Gary Grohmann

How healthy young people will derive little benefit from a fourth or fifth dose of vaccine, and how we should keep them for the vulnerable population, and China's response to the COVID surge being of global interest and concern

Prof Andrew Sindone

How health professionals must auscultate for murmurs in all patients over 65 years, and refer for an echo or to a cardiologist, How the symptoms of chest pain, syncope and dyspnoea appear late, and the prognosis is very poor with 50% mortality in two years, TAVI being a safe, effective, and highly cost-effective treatment for patients with aortic stenosis, and how we should be referring our patients earlier for consideration of this procedure and its current availability for only privately insured patients, unfortunately

Dr Ruth Cameron-Jeffs

Symptoms that may suggest pelvic organ prolapse, the role of the primary care provider, investigations indicated in its management and when to refer a woman for a specialist opinion

Dr Brett MacFarlane

The rate at which health professionals direct patients with intermittent Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) to an alginate/antacid combination, how extensively do we review current medications, and how they are taken to ensure the symptoms may not be iatrogenic, and whether to start with a short 7-day course of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) or just write a prescription.

Prof Andrew Chan

Jaw advancement splints offering an effective alternative to those who cannot use or tolerate a CPAP device, with two-thirds of patients deriving complete or partial resolution of OSA, The importance of referring to a multidisciplinary care team comprising of a GP, a sleep physician and a dentist for the best results

Dr Gary Grohmann

The pros and cons of a 5th jab for health workers, whether we have reached the end of the road with mRNA-based vaccines, cutting through the subvariant hype, new vaccines on the horizon, and the 2023 forecast - does ATAGI need a rethink?

Dr Joe Dusseldorp

The advantages of using the patient’s own tissue in breast reconstruction following breast cancer surgery, and procedures which preserve sensation after breast cancer surgery

Dr Peter Brukner OAM

How Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) remission sounds impossible, but is achievable and endorsed by Diabetes Australia in their "Type 2 Diabetes Position Statement" October 2021, and The compelling and beneficial impact of introducing a low carb dietary intervention to patients with T2D, rather than surgery or prescribing more drugs.