FICMlearning

FICMlearning

A Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) podcast provided by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Episodes

July 31, 2025 28 mins

Join us for this episode of the FICM learning podcast on Obstetric Critical Care.  Dr Katie Cranfield is an Intensive Care Consultant at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle and also the lead Obstetric Physician for the North East and North Cumbria Maternal Medicine Network..css-1t8gq41{border:none;background-image:none;background-color:transparent;box-shadow:none;color:#2F3133;cursor:pointer;font-size:inherit;padding:0;-webkit-text-decoration:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;width:-webkit-max-content;width:-moz-max-content;width:max-content;}.css-1t8gq41:hover,.css-1t8gq41:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;}

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Welcome to the FICM Learning Podcast, where we explore key topics shaping Intensive Care Medicine.

This episode, recorded in Summer 2024, features an update from the Professional Affairs and Safety Committee on their ongoing workstreams. Joining ...

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November 28, 2024 26 mins

Join us for an insightful episode of the FICM learning podcast featuring Dr. Sonya Daniel as we delve into the complex and essential topic of treatment escalation planning. In this episode, Dr. Daniel shares her expertise on how to approach conversations around treatment limitations, the ethical considerations involved, and the practical challenges clinicians face when balancing pat...

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August 1, 2024 17 mins

In this podcast episode, Gilly Fleming interviews Shashi Chandrasekhariah and Sarah Clark from the Training, Assessment and Quality Group. They discuss the activities of the group, including training, assessment, and quality assurance for doctors in training. They also talk about the portfolio pathway prog...

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This FICM Learning podcast episode discusses perioperative medicine, its history, current state, and future direction. The panel includes Prof Ramani Moonesinghe, Professor of Perioperative medicine at UCL, Dr David Murray, Chair of the National Laparotomy Audit project, and Dr Luke Flowers, Chair of the t...

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Gareth (@garemlyn) speak with Dr Alicia Waite (@_aacw) about her journey as a trainee involved in research. They discuss the challenges and barriers to research and those specific to being a trainee focussed and acadaemia.

 

The TRIC network is a collective of trainees with a passion for research in ICM. They are interested in hearing from any trainee who wishes to be involved in research at any level. So far they have conducted th...

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Gareth Thomas speaks with Dr Michael Slattery (@mkyslattery), the Clinical Lead of the Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Cymru (@CritCareCymru), on the topic of Critical Care transfers. They discuss how a service can be established to meet the needs of a geographically challenging systems, the challenges faced and how they can be ov...

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“Point of Care UltraSound training on the ICU – With Hannah Conway – Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice and member of the ICS Focused UltraSound in Intensive Care committee.

This episode outlines the use and benefits of ultrasound on intensive care, as well as the training pathway to accreditation in this valuable skill. “

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February 3, 2023 26 mins
Burns for the Intensivist
 
Mr Sanjay Varma, Burn Care Speciality Service Lead and Consultant Plastic Surgeon talks about burns management on the intensive care unit. Airway management, fluid management and surgical care of the burns patient.
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December 8, 2022 49 mins

From Faculty to College – an interview with Dr Danny Bryden and Dr Jack Parry-Jones

FICM recently released a statement detailing the desire to progress from being a Faculty to an independent, standalone College.

Gareth Thomas (@garemlyn) and Ricky Bell (@renalricky) talk with the Dean and Vice-Dean of FICM, Dr Daniele Bryden and Dr Jack Parry-Jones about the path to becoming a college. The interview is split into three parts. This ...

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December 8, 2022 21 mins

From Faculty to College – an interview with Dr Danny Bryden and Dr Jack Parry-Jones

FICM recently released a statement detailing the desire to progress from being a Faculty to an independent, standalone College.

Gareth Thomas (@garemlyn) and Ricky Bell (@renalricky) talk with the Dean and Vice-Dean of FICM, Dr Daniele Bryden and Dr Jack Parry-Jones about the path to becoming a college. The interview is split into three parts. This ...

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December 8, 2022 21 mins

From Faculty to College – an interview with Dr Danny Bryden and Dr Jack Parry-Jones

FICM recently released a statement detailing the desire to progress from being a Faculty to an independent, standalone College.

Gareth Thomas (@garemlyn) and Ricky Bell (@renalricky) talk with the Dean and Vice-Dean of FICM, Dr Daniele Bryden and Dr Jack Parry-Jones about the path to becoming a college. The interview is split into three parts.  This...

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Gareth Thomas @garemlyn speaks with Mr Peter Coyne @petercoyne1982, a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Newcastle with a special interest in advanced cancer and robotic surgery. This second part of the discussion looks at some the aspects of surgical patients on ICU that may not receive as much focus including laparostomies, complex wounds, stomas, abdominal compartment syndrome. Common themes surround each issue in their management...

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Title – The Surgical Viewpoint on ICU

 

Intro text – Gareth Thomas @garemlyn speaks with Mr Peter Coyne @petercoyne1982, a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Newcastle with a special interest in advanced cancer and robotic surgery. This first part of the discussion homes in on the viewpoint of the surgeon regarding patients on ICU. Areas of particular focus are who has ownership of their care? Who should know if there is a deteriorat...

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June 30, 2022 38 mins

The final episode of our two part interview with Dr Caroline Sampson, ECMO and ICM Consultant. 

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May 18, 2022 25 mins
This podcast is a two part interview with Dr Caroline Sampson, ECMO and intensive care consultant, on the topic of the clinical management of ARDS . This first part discusses some aspects of who benefits from escalation to intensive care, as well as strategies to avoid intubation, and how the decision to intubate is made. 
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April 7, 2022 31 mins

Gareth speaks with Dr Chelcie Jewitt (@ByChelcie), a doctor in Liverpool about her personal experiences of sexism in the workplace. Following this, she worked with the BMA to survey UK doctors and produce a report on sexism in medicine (link below). The discussion talks through the findings of the survey, lived experiences of sexism and discrimination and what can be done to improve the environment.

Link to full report: https://ww...

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February 24, 2022 42 mins

This episode we are taking a different slant than previous ones and turning more clinical. Gareth (@garemlyn) speaks with fellow podcast lead, Dr Ricky Bell, a consultant in Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, on the subject of Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury.

The discussion is designed to be practical in nature and as such does not constitute guidance from FICM and the views expressed are those of Gareth and R...

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This episode Gareth speaks with Dr Liz Thomas (@lizgoingon), Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and chair of the Women In Intensive Care Medicine sub-committee within FICM.

The blogs for WICM can be found and the FICMlearning website www.ficmlearning.org and their twitter handle is @womenICM

A second, follow up episode looking more closely at sexism in medicine will follow in the near future.

If you enjoy the pod...

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December 16, 2021 23 mins

Intro text – Gareth Thomas speaks with Dr Carol Davies (Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Southampton), Dr David Harvie (Higher Trainee in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care in Wessex) and Dr Rob Chambers (Consultant in Intensive Care in Southampton).

In this two-part series, we discuss the role that palliative medicine can play within the ICU both for patients and staff, the surprising impact when dealing with referrals. Part two ...

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