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We cannot put this off any longer.  IMreasoning has reached the end of its road.  We had a great 5 years.  We both learned so much, about medicine, about cognition, about the art of teaching, about each other, and about ourselves. Thank you once again to all of you, our listeners, for sticking with us.  Thank you especially to those who got in touch, and gave us encouragement to continue this project over the past 5 years. Thank you as well to all of you who appeared and participated in the podcast, to present stump the chumps cases, or to share your expertise in conversation with us. A special thank you to Steve and Madi who navigated the tech and the socials for us in the final leg of this adventure.  We couldn't have done this without you.

Join us for another instalment of Stump the Chumps. This time our case comes from Baylor University presented by Alec Rezigh, a friend of the podcast. Enjoy!

Just a quick inbetweenisode to let you all know we will be back with another instalment of STC in early February.  Enjoy a Southern Hemisphere summer, wherever you are.

Join us for another installation of STC (technically international) with Ramey Bajwa.  Play along and see if you can guess the diagnosis any earlier than we did (or did not).

Join us for our conversation with Stefanie Green, the director of CAMAP (Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers) where we hear about the lessons learned from the Canadian experience over the past four years since it has been legal for doctors to provide medical assistance in dying.

Join us for another instalment of STC (Stump the Chumps) where we tackle another case from HumanDx Global Morning Report. But first, try your hand at solving a case that Art brought along from his recent ward round.  Good luck!

Join us for another instalment of STC, presented at grand rounds at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Unfortunately we had to stay at home in Auckland and do it over Zoom... (because COVID). Josh Inglis and Toby Gilbert gave us a real challenge.

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Daniel Kilov, philosopher and memory athlete, about memory.  Find out about techniques that we can each learn to help us to memorise...anything. Click on Daniel Kilov TedX talk to here more And if you're interested here is the link to Joshua Foer Ted Talk, author of "Moonwalking with Einstein":  

We are thrilled to launch our 1st collaboration with HumanDx. "a worldwide effort, created with and led by the global medical community, to build an open intelligence system that maps the steps to help any patient" There is a key image associated with the case which you should inspect before starting.  Go to our website IMreasoning.com. You can try to solve thousands of interesting cases at HumanDx in an interactive, engaging platform, and can add your own cases too.

Chang is back people.  Hope you enjoy our conversation over a pint at Galbraith's in Auckland.  Chang helps us understand what machine learning actually means.  It's all about matrices apparently.  Easy...

Once again we dissect a diagnosis-gone-wrong from the records of the Health and Disability Commissioner.  Can we learn something to take away and avoid making the same mistake ourselves?

Welcome to another STC where friend of the podcast, Josh Inglis, challenges us with a case from Australia.  Play along with us and try to get the diagnosis as early as possible. As an aside, our update regarding COVID19 in NZ is already a bit out date.  Time move quickly during a pandemic!  NZ has not only managed to "flatten the curve"; we have completely squashed it.  For each of the last 4 days we have had less than 15 new confirmed and probable cases.  Now we have to figure out how to stay COVID-free until the vaccine... Remember you can view our medical student teaching events on our Facebook page. You can support our efforts to continue producing this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/imreasoning Thanks!

First, welcome to Madison and Steven who have joined the IMreasoning team! Like everyone else, we're talking about the Coronavirus.  Its hard not to when it has taken over essentially every aspect of our daily lives, both at work and at home. We talk about what makes the situation difficult for human minds to grasp the reality of this pandemic; the concept of exponential growth, denial in hard times, and the counterfactual. And we have the rare treat of chatting with our good friend Jorge Valbuena-Balbas who is living and working in Bilbao, Spain, and is currently sitting (metophorically-speaking) at the bottom of what appears to be an exponential trajectory in Spain. For those keen to support our efforts please visit: https://www.patreon.com/imreasoning  

Another instalment of STC, this time using a Global Morning Report case from HumanDx.  We hope to do more of these as we initiate a collaboration with the Human Dx team. Big news! We have launched our Patreon page.  Listen to this episode to hear more about how you can support the podcast. You can use the link below to visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/imreasoning We appreciate your support.

In this episode we review Bayesian Reasoning in general, and Nic get's the opportunity to geek out on talking stats.  We cover likelihood ratios, positive and negative predictive values, sensitivity and specificity, and pre- and post-test probabilities.  Hopefully, we used examples that will help you understand and remember these concepts.

Well folks, we are finally ready to re-launch with "season 2".  During our break we have been making plans to continue bringing you new material.  But most importantly we've decided to launch a new podcast called "Diagnostica" which aims to bridge the gap between the culture of medicine and the "public".  We'll keep you updated on this new project. For now, enjoy a short cognitive autopsy.  Next episode, more Bayesian math!

After a season 1 that has dragged on for 4 years, we've decided to have a publishing break so we can work on more episodes.  Thanks to all our listeners for your feedback and encouragement.  We will be back soon!

Apologies for the delay in getting this next episode out to you.  Play along with us on this very challenging case. Schadenfreude (/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] (listen); lit. 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.  

A special edition of STC!  This time our good friend of the podcast Gurpreet Dhaliwal, master diagnostician, works through a case with Nic.  The case was originally presented to Art at morning report by one of our registrars Luke Sutherland.

Enjoy part 2 of our conversation with Bertalan Mesko, the Medical Futurist.  Apparently in 20 years when we're ready to retire, work will be so satisfying we won't want to leave!  I hope Bertalan's optimism turns out to be prophetic...