The Clinician's Survival Guide
Do you struggle with practical aspects of working as a clinician, such as finding the right job, time-keeping, inefficient systems and medico-legal risk?
This podcast is about addressing these issues: Every Tuesday, in under 15 minutes, we take-on a topic and discuss it's implications. We then explore what you, as a working clinician, should do about it.
The Clinician's Survival Guide is about making you as efficient as possible, and helping you find practical solutions to the challenges you face.
It's time you had a more fulfilling career as a clinician.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 38
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Coping with a broken referral system
We're producing this episode because the process of making a referral and having the patient seen and managed isn't as smooth as might be, and clinicians aren't sure what to do about it…
Dumping of Work onto Primary Care!
This episode addresses the issue of work being dumped onto GP practices by secondary care, and how individual clinicians should respond.
Updated, removing reference to social media, ot…
Dealing with Trivial Presentations
Updated, removing reference to social media, otherwise same
Contact email: [email protected]
Dr Munir Adam (Dr Munir Ali-Zubair) is the host, and leads the multi-professional Prim…
Why you should subspecialise
This episode covers the debatable topic of whether clinicians working in primary care should subspecialise. Munir Adam asserts that, whilst holding steadfast onto the all-important ge…
AI 7/7: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
This is the 7th and final episode of the AI mini-series.
Previous episodes explored some of the ways in which AI is being used in healthcare in the UK, some of the work that is underwa…
AI 6/7: AI Implementation: Ethical and Practical considerations
Having discussed some of the incredible potential of AI for the various uses in healthcare in the NHS, one must be mindful that just as no medicine is without potential side effects, AI…
AI 5/7: Using AI for Education, Training & Research
Artificial Intelligence is being used increasingly for education, training and research purposes, able to serve as an incredible companion.
As we move into 2025 we resume the 7 part AI…
Looking forward to 2025: What lies ahead for Clinicians?
When you think about 2025, what do you expect the year to be like for you, the frontline clinician?
Having looked back at 2024 and some of its challenges in the last episode, this episod…
Looking back at Clinician's Challenges in 2024
As a clinician, when you think back to 2024, what thoughts come to mind?
We take a two-week break from the AI series, and reflect back to 2024 and, in the next episode, look forward onto…
AI 4/7: Letting AI do your documentation and your admin work
Sit back and have that conversation with the patient, while AI takes care of taking notes. Amazing, right? We take a closer look at the pros and cons of using some of the options out …
AI 3/7: Chronic disease, Mental Health and using Generative AI
The Artificial Intelligence for Clinician's series continues and this episode focuses on the management of chronic disease and mental health.
What tool has NHS England been reviewing a…
AI 2/7: What AI is doing to diagnose and predict diseases
This episode of The Clinician's Survival Guide provides an overview of some of the AI tools that are used to make diagnoses and predict future and upcoming disease! Some of these tools…
AI 1/7: Why Clinician's must not ignore Artificial Intelligence
This episode is the start of a mini-series looking at AI in healthcare, with a focus on information that Clinicians should know.
Series outline:
Introduction - overview, why it matters,…
The Problem of Over-Investigating Patients
Do you believe that we tend to over-investigate patients? Request tests that we know aren't indicated? If so, why is that, why does it matter, and what should we do about it?
The Clini…
Dealing with Challenging Fit Note requests
This episode briefly summarises the rules regarding fit notes, but then focuses on the challenge of dealing with fit note requests from patients - something that causes feelings of desp…
Protecting the Generalist Role
This is the second part of a two-part discussion about the Generalist clinician role - a role that many believe is under threat. This second part covers what individual clinicians can …
Is the Generalist Role Under Threat
The role of the Generalist clinician typically refers to GPs, although it can also refer to Physician Associates, Nurse Practitioners and others in Primary Care and, to some extent, to …
The Clinician's Survival Guide: Recap Episodes 12-19
The purpose of this episode is to briefly revisit episodes 12 to 19 to allow listeners to consider:
- Important and relevant information that was covered in episodes 12-19
- The need to re-li…
Tricky encounters: Managing Eczema patients
In this episode of The Clinician's Survival Guide we consider some of the challenges, and potential approaches for dealing with patients by anchoring the conversation onto a clinical co…
Educational events: How to Get the Most out of Them
So you decide you will attend an educational event. But how do you make the most of it? This episode follows on from the previous one which discussed whether to attend an event. This…