Tmc Podcast: Interviews With Medical Specialists

Dr Kate Rankin is a cardiology registrar at Eastern Health. Originally from rural Victoria, Kate has travelled to wonderful cities and brought back world-class skills from these conferences during her training. We discuss what she enjoys about cardiology, including the split between "fixing" ill patients and "equipping" them for and following them up in the future. Kate provides insights on how to deal with those patients that simply won't listen, a situation we can all relate to! Kate explains the growing number and complexity of subspecialties within cardiology, and whether a PhD is necessary to work in metropolitan Melbourne. She delves into some of these subspecialties and the exciting changes in surgery, pacemakers and imaging that are on the horizon. We discuss her typical day, ranging from the "puzzle" of patients presenting to ED to the long-term changes cardiologists can make, such as Kate's unique initiative that has reduced hospital re-admission rates for those with heart failure. We learn about