50 episodes listed below
Practical Australian medicine, case by case.
Aussie Med Ed turns clinical topics into grounded conversations about assessment, treatment pathways, and everyday decision-making. Recent episodes move from pregnancy care and hand therapy to radiology, radiotherapy, foot and ankle problems, AI transcription, orthopaedics, and GORD.
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Aussie Med Ed is an Australian medical education show centred on practical clinical reasoning. It is not a general wellness program. The episodes keep returning to the working questions of medicine: what matters in the history, what needs examination or imaging, which risks change management, and when another clinician should be involved. The style is relaxed and plain-spoken, but the subject matter is often detailed. Pregnancy care is handled through referral thresholds, gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders, growth restriction, supplementation, exercise advice, birth plans, induction, delivery, and postpartum care. Hand therapy is framed around function after injury or surgery, with attention to splinting, referral information, psychological context, and the difference between technically similar injuries in very different patients. Radiology appears as a central part of modern diagnosis and care coordination. Radiotherapy brings in planning, imaging, treatment precision, AI-assisted contouring, and patient support. The musculoskeletal episodes are especially practical, moving through pain, stiffness, weakness, instability, tendon injury, fractures, arthritis, boots, plaster, surgery, physiotherapy, and system coordination. GORD is treated as more than heartburn, with discussion of hiatus hernia, atypical symptoms, Barrett’s esophagus, proton pump inhibitors, endoscopy, and diagnosis by exclusion. AI medical transcription adds a different kind of clinical problem: documentation burden, note review, patient connection, regulation, and medical legal risk. The show is strongest when it stays close to ordinary medical decisions that become complicated in practice. It often asks how a GP, student, junior doctor, or specialist should think about the next step. Short explanations sit beside technical language. That mix gives the show a teaching-room feel rather than a public lecture feel. Named guests in its episodes include Dr. Alison Mundt, Dr. Vincent Powell, and Dr. Harsh Kanher, alongside discussion involving Emily and Georgie in the AI transcription episode. The show also repeatedly reminds listeners that its content is educational and not personal medical advice. That boundary matters because the topics include cancer treatment, pregnancy complications, surgical decision-making, and regulatory responsibility. Aussie Med Ed suits a listener who wants Australian clinical education with enough specificity to sharpen judgement and enough conversational ease to stay approachable.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants clinically grounded medical education with an Australian context, especially around assessment, referral, investigations, and treatment pathways. It also suits someone comfortable with technical medical language explained in a conversational setting.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by keeping specialty topics tied to everyday clinical decisions: what to ask, what to check, when to refer, and how patients move through care. It balances technical detail with practical judgement rather than staying at a purely introductory level.
Venture into the captivating world of medicine with 'Aussie Med Ed,' your definitive Australian medical podcast. Journey through the diverse medical landscape in an easy-going atmosphere, guided by your host, Dr. Gavin Nimon - an Orthopaedic Surgeon deeply committed to medical education in Adelaide. Our podcast serves as an illuminating beacon for medical students, practitioners, and anyone passionate about understanding health and wellness. At Aussie Med Ed, we delve into an array of medical conditions, unraveling their mysteries, diagnosis, and treatment options. Our approach is unique, as we bring in experts from the extensive medical community, encouraging engaging dialogues that help de…
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A grounded guide to the decisions that move pregnancy from routine care toward specialist attention.
Pregnancy care is framed here as a series of practical choices, from the first booking visit through delivery and postpartum follow-up. Obstetrician Dr.
A grounded look at hand therapy as injury care moves toward safe, meaningful daily function.
Hand therapy gives the episode a practical route into a wider question: what recovery looks like when a hand injury disrupts work, sport, or art.
A grounded review of radiology as an active partner in patient care, not just the source of a report.
Radiology comes through as medicine's extra set of eyes: a specialty that can spot disease earlier, guide life-saving procedures, and at times help shape the next step in patient care.
A clear, clinically grounded tour of radiotherapy's technical evolution and patient-centred purpose.
Radiotherapy comes through as a practice built on careful trade-offs: using physics and imaging to treat cancer while protecting healthy tissue wherever possible. Dr.
A clinically grounded tour of foot and ankle problems, where diagnosis depends on more than the scan.
Foot and ankle trouble is easy to dismiss until it starts limiting everyday life, and this episode treats that moment with appropriate clinical seriousness.
Cases, pitfalls, and bedside decisions.
Exam reasoning, drilled case by case.
Clinical neurology review, built for exam reasoning.
Rheumatology evidence, translated for clinic.
Dr Alison Mundt joins Gavin Nyman on AussieMedEd to walk through pregnancy management from the first GP booking visit to postpartum care.
AussieMedEd's 'Hand Therapy Explained: What Happens After the Surgeon Finishes?' pairs Gavin Nyman, an orthopaedic surgeon, with Charlotte Nash of Full Circle Hand Therapy to explain what hand therapy does after surgery or injury.
Radiology has become the third hand and the extra set of eyes in patient care, and Dr Adam Kukuru says a CT head moved from five minutes to about five seconds.
AussieMedEd's Radiotherapy Explained: from planning to patient support follows Gavin Nyman and South Australian radiation oncologist Dr Vincent Powell through how ionising radiation is used to treat cancer and some benign conditions.
Aussie Med Ed's "From Sprains to Bunions: Making Sense of Common Foot & Ankle Issues" opens by noting that the foot and ankle contain 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments, then frames sprains, bunions, heel pain, ankle arthritis, and total ankle replacement.
Aussie Med Ed examines how AI scribes convert clinical conversations into draft medical notes through speech recognition and large language models.
Gavin Diamond, an orthopaedic surgeon in Adelaide, maps musculoskeletal medicine from pain and stiffness to deformity, swelling, weakness, instability, neurological symptoms, congenital abnormalities, and lesions.
Aussie Med Ed examines gastroesophageal reflux disease, which Dr.
An interview with a haematologist about lymphoid malignancies, including lymphocytic leukaemia and lymphoma, for medical students and professionals.
An Australian medical education podcast episode interviewing an interventional neurologist about stroke diagnosis and treatment.
An Australian medical education podcast episode where an orthopaedic surgeon interviews a urologist about renal cancer diagnosis and treatment.