BMJ Best Practice Podcast

About BMJ Best Practice Podcast

The BMJ Best Practice podcast publishes interviews with clinical experts, aimed at healthcare professionals and students with an interest in keeping up to date with the latest scientific developments, evidence-based medicine and guidelines. BMJ Best Practice is ranked one of the best clinical decision support tools for health professionals worldwide.* Structured around the clinical workflow and updated daily, BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. bestpractice.bmj.com *Kwag KH, González-Lorenzo M, Banzi R, Bonovas S, Moja L. Providing Doctors With High-Quality Information: An Updated Evaluation of Web-Based Point-of-Care Information Summaries The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement...

Publisher

BMJ Group

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Mar 2015

Latest episode

13 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

185 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Jul 2026

   Smart learning: Scaling flexible workforce management, clinical decision support, audio learning, and healthtech

   This podcast is an interview with Dr Jing Ouyang. He is Co-Founder of Patchwork Health, Doctor, Podcaster and Healthtech Advisor. The interview covers a range of topics including: • Workforce management and flexible careers and how clinical decision support can help  • How best to learn from podcasts and  • Healthtech COI: JO is co-founder of and retains shares in Patchwork Health, where he previously served as COO and CGO. BMJ is an investor in Patchwork Health. JO also hosts the "Out of Programme" podcast. All views expressed are his own.

2. 

   29 Jun 2026

   Drowning

   According to the WHO, over 200,000 people die from drowning globally every year. So it is vital that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. To find out how to prevent and manage drowning, please do have a listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Dr David Szpilman, Medical Director of the Brazilian Lifesaving Society and Co-founder of the International Drowning Researcher's Alliance. For more on drowning, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: DS is an author of references cited in the BMJ Best Practice topic.

3. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Traveller's diarrhoea

   Traveller's diarrhoea is common. But it is difficult to put a percentage on it as a lot depends on lots of different factors. However, we do know that traveller's diarrhoea can be serious and can cause complications - from lactose intolerance to irritable bowl syndrome. To find out more, please have a listen to this podcast with Daniel Leung, Professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr Thomas D. Rees and Natalie B. Rees Presidential Endowed Chair in Global Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine. For more on traveller's diarrhoea, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: DTL receives authorship royalties from UpToDate, Inc, for a chapter on travel medicine; is an author of upcoming chapters on traveller's diarrhoea for the US CDC Yellow Book; is the past president of the American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health - Clinical Group within the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; and is an author of some of the references cited in this topic.

Who has been a guest on BMJ Best Practice Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Professor Kishore Vellody
• Daniel Winkel
• Muhammad Dherijha

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

19 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

64 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

96

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