July 2026

[on-hold music] Hello, and welcome to the July twenty twenty-six episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast.

I'm Robert Hurst, and I am your host for this very special episode.

Now, as I pre-warned you, uh, this is the second of two pre-recorded episodes, and I'm attempting to actually switch off from the world of medicine.

With any luck, I will have forgotten what a corridor escalation area is, and I will have forgotten the names of all of the DOACs.

If this is the first time you're listening to the podcast, hello.

We do love to hear your thoughts and your feedback.

And if you'd like to get in contact with us, you can reach us at our email address, which is rcemlearningpodcast@gmail.com. You can also leave us a comment on your podcast reader of choice, and we're always up for hearing your comments, your thoughts, and the ways in which we can improve the podcast.

In this July episode, we're gonna be picking up back from where Becky and Chris left us as they continue their two-parter looking at the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guideline update that was recently released.

And I'm then gonna be speaking with a very interesting researcher, Aya Rao, who recently published a very interesting paper in JAMA looking at the diagnostic performance of off-the-shelf large language models in an ED-like setting.

So I'm probably a bit of a skeptic around some of the fairly breathless hype that LLMs get, and Aya is a researcher in this area, and so we have a great discussion around her paper, which is definitely worth a read.

Some of the shortcomings of LLMs, the issues with how they are trained, and what she thinks we should be doing differently in this area if we want to get usable, uh, machines for these sorts of purposes.

Even if you're not all that arsed about the topic, I do think it's worth a listen, 'cause even if you don't use them, many of your patients will be using them.

So it's useful to know how these off-the-rack LLMs perform in this area.

So we're gonna start with Becky and Chris rounding off the home straight talking about the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines.

[on-hold music] Hello, and welcome to the July twenty twenty-six episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast.

I'm Robert Hurst, and I am your host for this very special episode.

Now, as I pre-warned you, uh, this is the second of two pre-recorded episodes, and I'm attempting to actually switch off from the world of medicine.

With any luck, I will have forgotten what a corridor escalation area is, and I will have forgotten the names of all of the DOACs.

If this is the first time you're listening to the podcast, hello.

We do love to hear your thoughts and your feedback.

And if you'd like to get in contact with us, you can reach us at our email address, which is rcemlearningpodcast@gmail.com. You can also leave us a comment on your podcast reader of choice, and we're always up for hearing your comments, your thoughts, and the ways in which we can improve the podcast.

In this July episode, we're gonna be picking up back from where Becky and Chris left us as they continue their two-parter looking at the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guideline update that was recently released.

And I'm then gonna be speaking with a very interesting researcher, Aya Rao, who recently published a very interesting paper in JAMA looking at the diagnostic performance of off-the-shelf large language models in an ED-like setting.

So I'm probably a bit of a skeptic around some of the fairly breathless hype that LLMs get, and Aya is a researcher in this area, and so we have a great discussion around her paper, which is definitely worth a read.

Some of the shortcomings of LLMs, the issues with how they are trained, and what she thinks we should be doing differently in this area if we want to get usable, uh, machines for these sorts of purposes.

Even if you're not all that arsed about the topic, I do think it's worth a listen, 'cause even if you don't use them, many of your patients will be using them.

So it's useful to know how these off-the-rack LLMs perform in this area.

So we're gonna start with Becky and Chris rounding off the home straight talking about the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines.