The Rounds Table
The Rounds Table is a free recurring medical podcast covering the latest and most important research from major medical journals. It is intended for all practicing healthcare professionals and aims to to help them keep up to date in the care of their patients.
Episodes
372 episodes
Episode 116 - 2025 ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Coronary Syndrome
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! Today we're introducing a new format—the first episode in our Clinical Practice Guidelines series. This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss the 2025 ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Corona...
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Episode 115 - Tirzepatide for Obesity Treatment and Diabetes Prevention
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with a solo episode with Dr. Mike Fralick. This week, he discusses a recently published trial exploring the role of tirzepatide in weight reduction and diabetes prevention in persons with o...
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Episode 114 - Liberal Fluid Intake versus Fluid Restriction in Chronic Heart Failure
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with a solo episode with Dr. John Fralick. This week, he discusses a recently published trial examining liberal fluid intake vs. fluid restriction in chronic heart failure. Here we go!<...
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Episode 113 - Vitamin D in Clinically Isolated Syndrome Typical of Multiple Sclerosis
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with a solo episode with Dr. Mike Fralick. This week, he discusses a recently published trial exploring the role of high-dose Vitamin D therapy in reducing disease activity in patients with...
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Episode 112 - Top Papers from the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Session
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with a special Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss top papers from the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session. Hot off the p...
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Episode 111 - Resmetirom in MASH with Liver Fibrosis and Mediterranean Diet in Ulcerative Colitis
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Dr. John Fralick and guest host Dr. Chunpeng Nie discuss two recent papers: resmetirom for the treatment of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NAS...
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TBT - The Top 5 Papers of 2023
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! In this throwback episode, Drs. Mike and John Fralick chat about five important research studies published in 2023:Hydrocortisone in ...
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Episode 110 - Restrictive versus Liberal Transfusion in Myocardial Infarction with Dr. Jeff Carson
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back this week with a special podcast episode! Dr. Mike Fralick sits down with Dr. Jeffrey Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Provo...
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Episode 109 - GLP1 Receptor Agonists in Parkinson's Disease
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss two recent papers examining the effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP1's) on patients l...
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Episode 108 - Endovascular Treatment in Stroke with Medium Vessel Occlusion
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with a solo episode with Dr. Mike Fralick. This week, he will discuss a paper exploring endovascular treatment (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke due to medium-vessel occlusion. Here we go!
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Episode 107 - Point-of-Care Diabetes Management in Hospital and Tirzepatide in Heart Failure
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast!This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss two recent papers - the role of continuous glucose monitoring for diabetes management in hospi...
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Episode 106 - Screening for Diabetes and Dyslipidemia after Pregnancy Complicated by Hypertension or Diabetes with Dr. Amy Yu
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back this week with a special podcast episode! Dr. Mike Fralick sits down with Dr. Amy Yu, a Stroke Neurologist, Clinician-Scientist, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tor...
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Episode 105 - Intravenous Thrombolysis in Minor Ischemic Stroke with Intracranial Occlusion
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with a solo episode with Dr. Mike Fralick!This week, he will discuss a paper exploring the role of intravenous thrombolytic therapy in patients with minor ischemic stroke and i...
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Episode 104 - Treatment of Severe Behçet's Syndrome
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with a solo episode with Dr. John Fralick!This week, he will discuss a paper exploring infliximab versus cyclophosphamide for the treatment of severe Behçet's Syndrome. Here we...
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Episode 103 - Antiplatelets in the Perioperative Period and Semaglutide in Knee Osteoarthritis
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast!This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss two recent papers - whether aspirin should be held in patients with stable coronary artery dis...
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Episode 102 - Oxygenation in Acute Respiratory Failure and Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast!This week, Dr. Mike Fralick and special guest, Dr. Laiya Carayannopoulos from the Intern at Work Podcast and our Medicine Pods collaboration...
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CSIM Special Episode - Serotonin surprises: a less-known drug interaction leading to an unusual presentation
Dr. John Fralick sits down with Dr. Nicole Hawe, a first-year Internal Medicine resident at the University of British Columbia, to discuss her third place winning clinical vignette from the Canad...
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CSIM Special Episode - The GI Bleed You Can't (Un)See
Dr. Laiya Carayannopoulos sits down with Nick Sanchez (MD student) to discuss his second place winning clinical vignette from the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Annual Meeting 2024. <...
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Episode 101 - The Stop or Not Trial
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with a solo episode with Dr. John Fralick!This week, he will discuss a paper exploring whether Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitors should be held before major non-cardiac surge...
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CSIM Special Episode - When the Brain Gets the Jitters: A Curious Case of Hemichorea
Dr. Zahra Merali (Host) sits down with Dr. Shaima Kaka (Internal Medicine resident) to discuss her first place winning clinical vignette (oral case report) from the Canadian Conference of Medicin...
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Episode 100 - Conflicts of Interest in Peer Reviewing
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back this week with a special podcast episode! Dr. Mike Fralick sits down with Dr. David-Dan Nguyen, a Urology Resident at the University of Toronto, to chat about his recent study, "
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Episode 99 - The Top Five Papers of 2024
Happy Holidays Rounds Table Listeners! For our penultimate episode of 2024, we are back with a special treat! This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick chat about the top five RCTs published over the past year:
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Episode 98 - Perioperative Medicine with Dr. Kevin Venus
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back this week with a special podcast episode! Dr. Mike Fralick sits down with Dr. Kevin Venus, a General Internist at Toronto Western Hospital, to chat about perioperative medicine!Ques...
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Episode 97 - Sodium in Hypertension and Decolonization in Nursing Homes
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast!This week, Drs. Justin Boyle and Emily Hughes discuss two recent papers - the effect of dietary sodium on blood pressure and the role of dec...
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Episode 96 - The Balance Trial and Inhaled Amikacin to Prevent VAP
Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast!This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss two recent papers - the Balance Trial and the role of inhaled amikacin in preventing VAP. Two ...
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