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The podcast from The BMJ for evidence based medicine Talk Evidence: where research, guidance and practice are debated and demystified
In this special festive episode, Helen MacDonald, Juan Franco, and guest Tim Feeney discuss three intriguing themes from BMJ's 2024 Christmas edition: cognitive dysfunction in careers that require spatial cognition, and in large language models; the effectiveness of heated mittens on osteoarthritis hand symptoms; and a trial exploring just-in-time training for doctors.
00:40 Cognitive dysfunction and hippocampus stimulating jobs
07:00 Cognitive testing of large language models
10:30 Warming mittens for osteoarthritis
17:11 Coaching clinicians for high-stakes procedures
Reading list
Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers
Age against the machine—susceptibility of large language models to cognitive impairment
Effect of heated mittens on physical hand function in people with hand osteoarthritis
Coaching inexperienced clinicians before a high stakes medical procedure
Talk Evidence
The podcast from The BMJ for evidence based medicine Talk Evidence: where research, guidance and practice are debated and demystified
