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MECCSIG (Monash Emergency and Critical Care Special Interest Group) aims to represent Monash University medical students interested in the areas of Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, and Trauma Medicine. Our goal is to connect students and clinicians with a shared interest in these areas of medicine by providing education and opportunities in emergency and critical care medicine through presentations, workshops and podcasts! MECCSIG hopes to promote further interest and participation in emergency medicine and critical care amongst both preclinical and clinical medical students. https://meccsig.mumus.org/ https://www.facebook.com/MonitorMECCSIG/
A medical student asks what happens after the breathing check; your textbook suddenly has an oxygen mask.
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A candid critical-care episode on burnout, bias, and the ICU memory that helped restore professional confidence.
Burnout in critical care is treated as part of a long professional life, not a tidy comeback arc. The intensivist looks back on a difficult stretch, then follows that into fellowship, simulation leadership, and mentorship.
A clear, practical episode on primary survey thinking, breathing assessment, and oxygen escalation.
Clinical Pearls makes the primary survey feel less like a checklist and more like a way to sort what matters first when a patient is unwell. The episode keeps returning to the practical question of what needs fixing before a fuller history can safely take over.
A practical comparison of ICU and anaesthetics nursing, grounded in the devices, decisions, and procedures that define each setting.
This episode sets ICU and anaesthetics nursing alongside each other, with Brad drawing on anaesthetics and earlier ICU work while Alicia brings a current ICU view from Barwon Health.
A grounded ICU episode about continuity, procedures, families, and clinical growth.
Critical care is framed here as a specialty built on continuity: returning to patients, adjusting plans, and keeping families in the room alongside procedures. Dr.
A candid, practical look at emergency medicine, shift work, teaching, and the outside life that helps sustain the work.
Emergency medicine comes through as a career shaped by interruption, handover, and the discipline of stepping away. Deb Leach describes a working life built around Monday shifts, Tuesday evenings, weekends, on-call pressure, and a brief trial of senior consultants taking…
Local medicine, told through physicians' lives.
Clinical oncology evidence, translated into treatment decisions.
Dr.
Clinical Pearls by Mexic Podcasts uses DRSABCD to show how Yaja and Vanessa assess a conscious but deteriorating patient before moving to a full ABCDE survey.
MECCSIG Podcasts puts Alicia, an ICU nurse at Barwon Health in Geelong, and Brad, an anaesthetics nurse with 10 years in ED, cardiac, and ICU work, in the same conversation.
Michaela says ICU is the 'furthest thing from a desk job,' with 12.5-hour shifts, three ward rounds, and code blues shaping the day.
Associate Professor Deb Leach says she chose medicine after deciding she could not explain things to animals, then found emergency medicine through a final-year rotation at Box Hill and Ed Brentnall.
Medical students interview a mobile intensive care paramedic about his career and the differences between paramedic levels.
An interview with Dr.
An interview explaining the Voluntary Assisted Dying Program in Victoria, its eligibility criteria, and the checks in place to ensure voluntary participation.
An interview with Associate Professor Charlie Cork about his career in intensive care and his work on end-of-life care and voluntary assisted dying.
An interview with Professor Paul Myles about a multi-centre Australian study on asymptomatic COVID-19 in surgical patients and its implications for perioperative medicine.
An interview with Associate Professor Michael O'Leary about his career in intensive care medicine, from medical school to leadership roles.
An interview with Associate Professor Katie Walker discussing her study on the use of clinical scribes in emergency departments to improve physician productivity.