Podcasts

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

Dr Charlotte Hespe

What do you know about it and how are you preparing for it? Understand why these changes happened and how will the college help us with this new annual CPD program

Dr Deb Mills

Patients who are going onto long term immunosuppressives (such as TNF inhibitors) and wish to travel to high-risk countries should have live vaccines BEFORE commencing such treatment

Expert/s: Dr Deb Mills
Prof Jason Ong

Recent changes have made prescribing PrEP by any GP on the PBS without the need for special training. HIV positive people without a Medicare Card can now receive free retroviral treatment and monitoring

Expert/s: Prof Jason Ong
Dr Rupert Hinds

The recommended treatment of constipation in children of various ages, will a change of formula help? And which stool softeners are recommended in infants and toddlers with constipation

Prof Michael Toole AM

Trends of new cases, hospitalisations and deaths- mask mandates will help but the political leaders don’t want to do it.

Prof Henry Woo

Up-to-date and evidence-based advice to post radical prostatectomy patients- managing their expectations, effective therapies and realistic time-frames for recovery, latest information on androgen deprivation therapy.

Expert/s: Prof Henry Woo
Dr Jessica Tattersall

Latest evidence and understanding about rhinitis- framework on how to assess, investigate and manage this condition.

Prof Deborah Bateson

Differences between the various oral contraceptive preparations- evidence-based approach to both the pros and cons of oral contraceptive pill use.

Prof Bruce Robinson

When looking for thyroid diseases, listen to the patient as the answer is often in the history - the tests and imaging are adjuncts. Confirm your clinical suspicions with appropriate investigations.

Dr Pamela Douglas

A deeper understanding of the anatomy of the breast tissue, how it operates with breastfeeding, when ducts become blocked or engorged. The role of antibiotics, evidence gap for both probiotics and therapeutic ultrasound

Prof Leigh Delbridge

Minimally invasive surgery has become the recommended treatment - where the surgery is done and by whom is critically important for the 10% of cases that are difficult. Do a serum calcium and PTH for patients with unspecific neurocognitive, neuromuscular and renolithiasis or low BMD

Dr Gary Grohmann

Antiviral drugs and other therapeutics, new drugs and vaccines in the pipeline. Are universal vaccines a pipe dream? Why vaccines are only part of the answer and will never control the pandemic?