Podcast Episodes

[IMJ On-Air] A tiger in the mallee: Victoria’s JEV cluster

Episode 98

On the 28th of January 2022 a 75-year-old man was admitted to the regional Albury Wodonga Health Service with a high fever and Parkinsonian symptoms.…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Ep97: The governance of AI

Episode 97

This is the third part of a series on artificial intelligence in medicine. Previously we explained how to train and test machine learning models that…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Ep96: The ergonomics of AI

Episode 96

The allure of having devices and tasks assisted by artificial intelligence is that they will help overcome some of the natural limits of human cognit…

3 years, 3 months ago

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Ep95: Machine Learning 101

Episode 95

AI-assisted healthcare is reaching maturity in many applications and could alleviate some of the capacity gap increasingly faced by health systems . …

3 years, 3 months ago

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Ep94: Facing up to racial bias

Episode 94

In today’s podcast we try and understand the impact that racial bias makes on variation in clinical care. For example, racialized patterns in the use…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Ep93: The rise and fall of mpox

Episode 93

The first time most of us heard of monkeypox was in May 2022. The smallpox-like infection appeared to spring from nowhere and make its way through Eu…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Ep92: Data-driven practice improvement

Episode 92

Medical and administrative records are normally collected to help the management of patients or institutions, but it can be time consuming to extract…

3 years, 7 months ago

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[IMJ On-Air] Hyperglycaemia and COVID-19

Episode 91

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of international studies showed that there was increased risk of adverse outcomes in hospitalis…

3 years, 8 months ago

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[IMJ On-Air] High readmission rates in cirrhotic patients

Episode 90

Hospitalisation rates for cirrhosis are increasing in Australia in part associated with the high prevalence of obesity and subsequent non-alcoholic f…

3 years, 9 months ago

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[Guest Lecture] What we know about long COVID

Episode 89

ADAPT is a prospective cohort study that has been following up COVID-19 patients since the earliest days of the pandemic. It has allowed researchers …

3 years, 9 months ago

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