Medics Academy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Medics.Academy
Medics.Academy is a revolutionary online education platform enabling healthcare professionals and students to learn in new and innovative ways. Currently, healthcare education is hampered by the limitations of having to deliver physical training for everything. The cost of delivering these programmes is increasing and the lack of a low cost, targeted digital platform for delivering mass educational content has meant the healthcare industry lags many years behind many other sectors.
Medics.Academy has understood this and strives to overcome this gap by providing high-quality, blended learning digital healthcare programmes. The digital components can be accessed anywhere and on any device. These programmes are sustainable, quality assured and will drive improvements in skills, knowledge and patient safety.
Founded in 2016 by people passionate about innovation in healthcare, we empower health professionals across the globe through innovative education and continued professional development. Our team of doctors, engineers, artists, and film-makers create engaging content to deliver the highest quality education available in the industry.
Enjoy this discussion between the founder of THET, Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, and their inaugural patron, Lord Nigel Crisp. Their conversation flowed between how Sir Parry launched THET, to the changing of attitudes toward Global Health, to how support is garnered in politics, to many fascinating stories from the front lines.
In 2013, the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership was established to help build the capacity of the health institutions in Sierra Leone. However, with the sudden outbreak of ebola spreading fast across the nation, Dr Oliver Johnson and his team came together to help the country manage this crisis. In this podcast, Johnson discusses his experiences and his lessons learned whilst working with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to curtail the outbreak.
In this podcast, Frances Day-Stirk shares her views on the learn and return schemes for nurses between Commonwealth countries and the NHS. Day-Stirk uses her own personal experiences to reflect on the issues and provides recommendations to overcome the nursing deficit.
Professor The Lord Darzi: The Biggest Problems in the NHS and How We Can Reverse Them by Medics.Academy
Catherine Calderwood is an obstetrician and the only practicing chief medical officer to still see patients. When she was a medical student, she worked for a time in Uganda. She observed a doctor have to make a decision between saving one baby or saving another because there was not enough start. She decided in that moment to become an obstetrician and work to help provide healthcare resources worldwide so that such decisions will one day not need to be made.
Meet Professor Jo Wilmshurst, telling us about her work as the Director of the African Paediatric Fellowship Programme at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
In this episode of the pre-hospital care podcast, we welcome Mark Faulkner, an advanced paramedic practitioner, to unpack the often daunting legal world that paramedics are exposed to.
Join THET CEO Ben Simms and founder Sir Eldryd Parry to hear about the history of Tropical Health & Education Trusts, the leading global health charity in the UK.