britt & steph: at your cervix: Recent Episodes
Britt & steph
Want to chat with two women's health PA's and learn more about vaginas while feeling like you're at happy hour with your friends? You have found your home!
Britt & steph are back (finalllllllyyyyyyy) and this episode we attempt to break down some basic cell bio/virology/ and immunology and talk about the covid-19 vaccine safety and efficacy and recent recommendations for reproductive health age women, pregnant mamas and breast feeding mamas
This episode we get a little personal and discuss miscarriage -- from appropriate patient education and support, to making an appropriate diagnosis and thinking through those management options.
This episode we have mega-guest star Kelly Chase from the world-wide, trending and addictive reality dating netflix hit Love is Blind. We chat about breaking boundaries in relationships, both personally and with your healthcare professional.
Hide yo kids, hide yo wives and wash yo hands - the coronavirus (COVID-19) is here! This episode Britt & Steph are breaking down COVID-19 with special guest appearance by Dr. Roozehra Khan, double board certified critical care doctor and former co-director of the Neurosurgical ICU at Keck Medical Center. Come join as public health finally has the moment it deserves and get all your burning COVID-19 questions answered...at your cervix!!
This episode we hear your requests and finally talk about menopause and hormone replacement therapy! We discuss what to do when your patients start complaining of hot flashes (its getting hot in here), night sweats, mood swings and vaginal atrophy. Thats right, we are talking about menopause, genitourinary symptoms of menopause and traditional hormone replacement therapy, and you wont want to miss these pearls, as your patients will be glad you didn't. Join us as we break down the categories of different kinds of medications (estrogens, progesterones, combined products, topicals, SERMs, oh my!), and when to consider starting HRT for your patients. We also talk about some of the newer hotter agents out there like osphena, duovee and imvyexy. Listen this week and you'll be the hit in the office with all the latest and greatest.
Steph finally found time for us to chat again and this time we are talking about hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women. This episode we are focusing on the infamous women's health initiative study, specifically its results and how they scared thousands of clinicians. We review it as well as more recent studies since then and talk about why you should not be scared of HRT. Join us as we discuss who is an appropriate candidate for HRT and when are those risks greater than any potential benefits.
We are officially ONE year old! We celebrate the podcast by laughing and answering several of YOUR questions from how to be a good student, preparing for rotations and job hunting and clinical pearls! Thanks for following and listening along and hope for many more!
We're back with our favorite physical therapist, Emily to discuss pelvic pain! We dive into dyspareunia, vulvadynia, intersitial cystitis and endometriosis and how pelvic floor PT can help your patients significantly better than just adding lubricant or having another glass of wine!
We are back with a brand new episode with our guest speaker Emily, who is a pelvic floor physical therapist! She helps us break down what is pelvic floor PT, how to explain it to your patients and certain conditions pelvic floor PT should be used and considered for (spoiler alert -- ALL your post-partum mamas)! Also we discuss some new "hip" vaginal cleanse trends... it'll be an episode you won't wanna miss!
We are wrapping up STI Awareness month with Part 2 on your favorite sexually transmitted infections making a comeback, including syphilis, mycoplasma and ureaplasma. Join us as we discuss if Taylor Swift was referring to syphilis in her mega-hit bad blood, learn exactly what is a chancre and gumma and figure out of mycoplasma and ureaplasma are real or if Steph was just hazing Britt again!
Just in time for STI Awareness month, Britt and Steph are talking the original gangstas of sexually transmitted infections. Thats right - chlamydia, gonorrhea (or as we learn, the clap), good ol trichomonas and the herpes simplex virus. Join us with our coffees as we talk screening, treatment, test of cure and even sprinkle in some board prep!
Join us this week on a special episode as Britt & Steph chat with expert guest speaker, Kerin PA-C with Queermeducation! Kerin is a physician assistant from LA who specializes in LGBTQI health! She also founded queermeducation which provides resources and information for health care providers regarding quality health care for LGBTQI and nonbinary people. She helps us break down walls, explains basics terms and definitions and discusses special health care needs and considerations for this patient population! Its an episode you don't want to miss - join us in getting "queermeducated"
We're baaaaaaaackkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (FINALLY). Grab your favorite glass of wine and catch up with your beloved women's health galentines as we spill the deets on where we have been the past several weeks (spoiler alert -- Britt pushed a watermelon out of her vagina) and talk about the wonders of labor and delivery from a patient's prespective. Plus, Steph shares with us a special women's health valentine poem as we remind everyone to make good choices and briefly re-iterate STI prevention, consent, and pregnancy. Hope ya'll are as excited for 2019 as we are!
Episode 9 is bringing back patho-physiology in a big way to help our listeners better understand and better be able to educate their patients regarding PCOS. Come join us as we talk about one of the most common women's health topics, break down the pathophys and discuss how it is properly diagnosed and managed. Don't ovary-act and miss this episode, as we share all our clinical PCOS pearls!
Just in time for halloween we bring our final episode in our three part series over breasts! We close out with our own personal surgical consult with Michelle, PA-C. Michelle is a Certified PA who has trained and worked with top rated breast and general surgeons, oncologists, radiologists and pathologists. She helps break down what exactly happens after you get the mammogram, how to read a pathology report and what even are the differences between all these genes and things we test for so we can all better educate and prepare our patients for a surgical consult! Here's to the tumor board and to saving the ta-ta's Part 2!
Epsiode 7 is the second episode in our three part series on the breast for Breast Cancer Awareness Month! This episode we are talking all things BENIGN that occur in breasts and help you to confidently assess and educate your patient with a breast complaint. We cover things including fibroadenomas, fibrocystic breast disease, mastalgia, infectious diseases of the breast and nipples!! Remember not everything always appears as it seems, and we help you keep that differential wide and break down the most common things that go bump in the breast!
It's October!!! You know what that means, fall, pumpkin spice lattes and breast cancer awareness month! This week its extra special as it is also PA week! Come celebrate with your two favorite basic PAs and learn everything you need to confidently handle those breast complaints you dread to see on your schedule. This month to help spread breast cancer awareness we are doing a 3 part episode series over the breasts! This week's episode details breast cancer screening guidelines, screening modalities/imaging and the clinical breast exam. Save the ta-ta's!
Episode 5 we are chatting about those nagging opportunistic vaginal infections that love to crop up in OB/GYN, primary care, urgent care, the ER you name it... that's right, good ol' fashioned urinary tract infections, yeast and bacterial vaginosis. We will help hit on some buzz words and key things for boards but also share some tips and tricks for clinical management and recurrent infections. Hopefully you enjoy learning all about the vagina as a self cleaning oven, and discover why it should not smell like a bouquet of roses, a fresh ocean breeze nor should it be rotten or fishy!
This episode we are catching up, reviewing the documentary bleeding edge and breaking down ASCCP screening guidelines for pap smears and cervical cancer! Plus we discuss tips to have a successful pelvic exam and make your cervix finding skills A+
Episode 3 is bringing half of us live from Canada and the late night recording will not disappoint! This episode we are talking about long acting reversible methods of contraception... that's right LARC!! We are going to talk about depo-provera injections, nexplanon and IUDs galore. What to do and counsel your patients on and a few clinical case examples of definitely what not to do. So grab your favorite adult beverage & head phones and join us for another episode of b.s. (britt & steph) at your cervix!
We're back in episode 2 and dropping some knowledge on adjusting the pill for your patients. We break down the side effects of estrogen and progesterone (when you might want to increase and decrease one or another) and tackle some awesome listener questions, including what type of pill might be best for certain clinical situations and even more on patient counseling (because we know you just can't get enough). Join us in becoming master mani-PILL-ators!!!! You know you want to.
Welcome to the first ever podcast of britt & steph: at your cervix! We are two OB/GYN physician assistants with a passion for women's health and education! Join us and learn more about the intricacies of managing vaginas! Whether you are PA-S, PA-C, NP, NP student, or medical student/ resident or a seasoned provider we hope to provide an engaging an open forum to discuss women's health topics beyond the basic blue print guides and help make your practice even stronger. Our first episode we will be diving into the birth control pill, discuss what you have to know about it to prescribe it, and how to approach an initial visit to start someone on this contraceptive method. Grab a wine or beer, laugh and learn with us!