Pre PACES Podcast

Sam reveals the winners of our Quesmed PACES Handbook giveaway with a VERY special guest!

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In this episode, Sam welcomes back Dr James Walters, consultant respiratory physician from the Royal United Hospital in Bath to discuss managing tricky scenarios involving pleural disease on the medical take.

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In this episode, Sam welcomes along Dr Huzaifa Adamali, consultant respiratory physician at North Bristol NHS Trust to the podcast to discuss everything interstitial lung disease in PACES and beyond!

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This second part of our two parter series on Calling Cardiology features Dr Bunny Saberwal and Dr Retesh Bajaj discussing temporary pacing and pericardial effusions!

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We welcome back Dr Bunny Saberwal and Dr Retesh Bajaj in this first of two BAMR episodes on Calling Cardiology. Here, we discuss STEMI management as the Med SpR on call.

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Dr Holly Theaker is welcomed to the podcast as a member of Team Quesmed! Holly gives her insights into pursuing a career hiatus outside of clinical medicine but also unveils an exciting giveaway for three lucky podcast listeners! More details will be revealed in the episode...you will NOT want to miss this!

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Welcome to another Perfect Presentations episode, this time Sam gives his overview of pleural effusions and gives you his ideas for how best to present the patient with a pleural and gives some exemplar answers to some common examiner questions!

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Dr Alicia Cole, ST6 in Emergency Medicine joins Sam for this episode where we discuss how to build cohesive team partnerships with our ED colleagues, when you're the medical SpR on call!

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Sam goes solo this week in another perfect presentations episode! This time Sam gives his exemplar presentation of a renal transplant station, perfect to supplement your own preparation for your PACES exam!

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Dr Sharareh Vahabi, consultant cardiologist with specialist interest in cardiac imaging, joins Sam to discuss infective endocarditis. Something often seen on the wards and absolutely fair game to come up in PACES too! We talk through the pertinent risk factors in these patients, the importance of blood cultures and all the pertinent management tips for your clinical practice.

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Dr Emma Saunsbury, post CCT fellow in Hepatology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, joins Sam to discuss liver transplant in PACES. Emma brings a huge amount of value for anyone sitting their PACES or anyone on a gastroenterology post who looks after complex liver patients!

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This week we bring you a massive PACES favourite: peripheral neuropathy with Dr Shadi El-Wahsh, a consultant in neurology in Sydney, Australia. Shadi brings a wealth of expert knowledge on this critical PACES topic and gives us a BRILLIANT mnemonic for the causes of peripheral neuropathy! We hope you enjoy the show!

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Sam brings you a bonus slice of SDEC pie in the form of Dr Richard Haigh telling us what he might expect if you assess a patient coming into SDEC with suspected vasculitis.

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Welcome to our first episode of 2025 with Dr Richard Haigh, consultant rheumatologist, and we have an extra special thank you to give you Dr Rachel Haigh who mentioned that Richard is her dad and would be a great fit for the show and he certainly was! We talk through everything SLE including the constellation of symptoms and signs as well as the important facets of management!

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We flick through some highlights from our favourite episodes from the second half of 2024, featuring such brilliant guests including fan favourite Kim Monks, my cardiology brothers from other mothers - that's Retesh Bajaj and Bunny Sabarwal as well as brilliant knowledgeable guests such as Gavin Brittain and Rob Miller - all this to come to I hope you enjoy!

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We hope you enjoy this festive treat from Sam et al of the Pre PACES Podcast! We wish you all a restful and joyous festive period, especially those of you working and keeping your communities safe over the Christmas period!

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Sam recaps the best bits of the podcast from 2024 including a range of expert guests: Dr's Dan Furmedge, Matt Wells, Kim Monks, Ben Mulhearn and Suzy Morton. Thank you so much to all of our fantastic guests and most of all, thank you to all of our wonderful listeners for making the podcast what it is! We wish you a restful festive period!

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We step into the Christmas period with an exclusive present for our listeners: a new episode format! Always grateful for your feedback on this, we need to know if this type of episode is helpful so please do let us know at prepacespodcast@gmail.com! Was it helpful? Could we make it better - if so how? PLEASE do let us know!

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Sam goes back to where it all began and is joined by Dr Jennie Gough to reflect on their years of experience on being the medical reg on call, how to pick a medical specialty, making the most of your study leave and how things sometimes ARE as simple as they seem!

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Sam welcomes along Professor Nicola Cooper, co-author of the ABC of Clinical Reasoning to discuss this fascinating topic. We shed light on cognitive biases, common diagnostic pitfalls within clinical practice and the value of effective teaching. Visit Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education Group website here >> CREME

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This week Sam welcomes along Dr Yezen Sammaraiee to help us tackle cerebellar syndrome in PACES. Yezen is CEO & Founder of popular revision resource Quesmed. Along with that he is also a neurology registrar, currently on sabbatical to focus on growing the Quesmed brand! We discuss everything cerebellar including differential diagnosis, investigations, management and what the difference is between sensory and cerebellar ataxia!

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Sam is joined once again by Dr Josh Davies and Dr Luke Austen who discuss decision fatigue: what it is, what it means for us and our patients, and what we can do to combat it and make our on-calls generally a lot less stressful!

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This episode Sam welcomes along Dr Rob Miller, Gastroenterology SpR, to discuss jaundice! We talk through everything pertinent to a PACES station; history, examination, differential diagnosis, investigations and management!

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Sam welcomes along Dr Gavin Brittain, star of the Pastest revision videos, to discuss MS and how it might be presented in a PACES station, including the important elements of the

Link to the rapid neurology exam Gavin mentions.

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This week Sam has Gastro SpR Dr Simone Lin on the podcast to tackle Dysphagia as it might be presented in a Clinical Consultation station! We go through the broad range of differential diagnoses and Sim gives her approach to appropriately investigating these patients!

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Dr Retesh Bajaj and Dr Bunny Saberwal, both interventional cardiologists, join Sam in discussing patients presenting with chest pain. This episode is jam-packed with learning points, not just for PACES but your clinical practice too!

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Sam welcomes back Neurology SpR Dr Kim Monks as a follow up to her INO episode to discuss other eye movement palsies as they might be presented in PACES! We go into detail of cranial nerve 3, 4 and 6 palsies! Towards the end of the show, Kim tackles a Harry Potter related Reg Against The Machine!

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Sam sits down for a solo episode this week where he discusses absent ankle jerks and upgoing plantar reflexes before going into more detail on one of the differential diagnosis for this presentation: Friedreich's ataxia.

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Welcome to the second part of Sam's conversation with Dr Luke Austen and Dr Josh Davies on supporting juniors. Herein Sam, Luke and Josh discuss giving and receiving feedback, hot debriefs and underperforming trainees.

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Sam sits down with anaesthetics CT3 and author Luke Austen, and IMT3 Joshua Davies to discuss how we can support our postgraduate or resident doctor colleagues when working as the medical registrar on call!

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Rheumatology SpR (soon to be consultant!) Dr Ben Mulhearn joins Sam on the podcast to discuss the acutely hot swollen joint and how to approach this in PACES but also in your everday clinical practice!

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Sam is joined by Respiratory physician, Dr James Walters on the show this week to discuss your approach to this critical PACES station.

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A fantastic new guest, Dr Kim Monks, joins Sam on the podcast to discuss INO in PACES including a full run down of the anatomy, physiology and examination findings. Kim also tackles Reg Against the Machine on a quiz topic that will get your eyes popping!

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Sam goes solo this episode in discussing medical error as it might be presented in a communications station in PACES.

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Dr Stewart Brown, Cardiology SpR and devices fellow joins Sam to discuss cardiac devices, how they appear on chest x-rays and how to structure your approach to managing these patients when they present on the medical take!

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Dr Dan Furmedge joins Sam again to discuss the most common PACES pitfalls he has observed in his years examining PACES! We talk through each marking domain and how to avoid the most common pitfalls that candidates fall into.

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Sam welcomes back returning guest Dr Suzy Morton, Consultant Haematologist to discuss this ever-popular PACES topic!

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Sam is joined by Dr Matt Wells, Rheumatology registrar, on the show this week to discuss Giant Cell Arteritis. This is a brilliant topic which we know comes up in PACES and Matt takes us through all the critical points to include in your station!

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Sam catches up with Megan, Varvara and Maria who all attended PACES Ahead in January 2024 and get their first hand opinion of how they found the course!

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Sam was joined for this episode by Dr Dan Furmedge, consultant in Geriatric medicine, regional IMT TPD and active PACES examiner. Dan runs Sam through the PACES approach to a patient presenting with cognitive impairment and what we can realistically expect from this sort of station in a PACES context.

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