Conference-grade medical education with a systems conscience.
Coda Change is a medical education archive shaped by conference-room urgency and clinician-to-clinician candor. Its episodes move from airway safety and trauma discussion to renewable energy, gender inequity, and the future of free open access medical education.
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Coda Change is a medical education feed built from the CODA and SMAC conference community. It keeps the energy of live clinical teaching intact. The format often begins with brief, dryly funny framing from Olly Flower and Roger Harris before moving into talks, panels, highlights, and Q&A sessions. The substance is serious. Recent episodes return again and again to airway safety, trauma discussion, human factors, and the systems that make clinical work safer or more fragile. The PUMA guideline material centers on the prevention of unrecognised oesophageal intubation, a topic where small failures can carry major consequences. Human factors sessions treat teamwork as clinical infrastructure. Clear role allocation, shared checklists, interprofessional training, leadership by example, and better communication are presented as practical tools rather than abstract ideals. The show is especially interested in what happens across boundaries. Emergency departments, intensive care, theatre teams, local champions, shared equipment, simulation resources, and common language all appear as part of the same patient-safety problem. It also makes room for broader healthcare questions. Episodes address renewable energy in healthcare, gender inequity, trauma from different perspectives, and decision-making under pressure. That range gives the feed an advocacy streak without losing its clinical footing. Coda Change is not a casual wellness program or a simplified medical explainer. It assumes comfort with clinical language and rewards listeners who want to think about practice, systems, and culture together. The recurring C4 thread adds another layer: the old conference structures may no longer exist, but the charitable trust remains positioned around free open access medical education and future grant-style support. That gives the archive a sense of continuity. It is past conference knowledge being kept useful, with a clear bias toward community, openness, and safer care.
Made for: Coda Change suits clinicians, medical educators, trainees, and healthcare leaders who want practical teaching from conference settings. It is best for listeners comfortable with clinical terminology and interested in patient safety, teamwork, and healthcare culture.
What sets it apart: The show pairs high-acuity clinical topics with the values of the CODA and SMAC community: open access education, carbon neutral medical conference culture, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. It feels less like a studio interview feed and more like a working archive of medical practice under pressure.
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A practical map of sepsis fluids, kidney outcomes, and the next research questions.
The episode presents sepsis resuscitation as a set of live treatment choices: balanced fluid versus 0.9% saline, how much fluid to give, and how much weight to keep on fluid responsiveness.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Morning medical evidence, compressed for practice.
Medical research, translated through patient experience.
Hosts announce the Coda Change conference podcast series, highlighting carbon neutrality and a new initiative to support free open access medical education.
Emergency physician Elliot Long presents a case-based review of sepsis management in pediatric emergency departments.
Sonia Chanchlani presents at the Coda Change conference on developing toolkits for sustainability in healthcare.
Hosts announce a new charitable initiative to support free open access medical education, reflecting on past conferences and encouraging community ideas.
Hosts announce the end of SMAC and CODA conferences and a new charitable initiative to support free open access medical education.
Claire Arnott connects healthcare responsibility with climate action, citing healthcare's roughly 7% share of Australian emissions and the need to involve people in positions of power.
Coda Change's sepsis Q&A uses audience questions to examine evidence, intensive-care mobilisation, COVID-19, and end-of-life decisions.
Coda Change’s sepsis Q&A pairs David Anderson’s critique of the “magic hour” with Gladis Kabil’s frontline findings.
Hosts Olly Flower and Roger Harris announce a new grant initiative to support free open access medical education, reflecting on past conferences and the charitable trust behind them.
Hosts announce the end of SMAC and CODA conferences and a new grant initiative to support free open-access medical education.
Coda Change's 'Human Factors in Airway Management' uses four scripted airway-management videos from the 2019 World Airway Management Meeting in Amsterdam to examine team behavior under time pressure.
Hosts Olly Flower and Roger Harris announce a new grant initiative to support free open-access medical education, reflecting the charitable mission of the Coda Conference.
Hosts announce the end of SMACC and Coda conferences but launch a new initiative to support free open-access medical education projects.
Hosts announce the Coda Change conference podcast series, highlight its carbon-neutral status, and tease a new charitable initiative to support free open access medical education.