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ICYMI: Our latest THR bundle is out.

We cover several topics and articles we found interesting and relevant to everyday ID practice, plus a couple of excellent online resources.

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Episode 20 - Bundles 3.0 Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 01/25/2026 · 28m

🎧 New: The Host Response – Bundles 3.0

Tools, trials, thoughts from the ID world, and things we just learned.

Feat. Dr. Brooke Fraser.

In this episode: Practical resources, updated cUTI guidelines, and a grab bag of ID-adjacent insights.

find more at: www.firstcallid.ca

#idsky #meded

ICYMI:

The latest episode of The Host Response.

The downside of doing the right thing in ID, either by draining the abscess or hitting the bacteria where it hurts.

Also, a nod to those on call at night when the crash often occurs...it’s tough work, but it doesn’t go unnoticed.

#idsky

Episode 19 - Shaking the Snow Globe: Why Patients Crash After Starting Antibiotics Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 01/11/2026 · 5m

🎙️ The Host Response: Episode 19 - Shaking the Snow Globe: Why Patients Crash After Starting Antibiotics

You start the right antibiotic. Your patient gets worse.

Why it happens, when to expect it, and how not to panic-escalate at 2am.

🎧 firstcallid.ca | Apple | Spotify

#idsky #meded

If you’re new to ID, this episode is for you.

If you’ve been around a while, you may recognize a few of these lessons (and remember when you learned them the hard way).

Episode 18 of The Host Response.

Episode 18 - 3 Tips for New ID Doctors: Then and Now Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 12/28/2025 · 5m

🎙️ Episode 18 of The Host Response is out.

What 10 years in ID taught me:
• Antibiotics can hurt people
• Not every note needs to be a masterpiece
• You need a work buddy
• Vancomycin remains…vancomycin

Reflections for new ID docs (and reminders for the rest of us)
🎧 Listen now.

#idsky #meded

Episode 17 - Everyone's Favourite ID Consults Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 12/14/2025 · 8m

New episode of The Host Response: 🎙️ Everyone's Favourite ID Consults

Not all of the best ID consults come with fireworks.

Some are quieter, complex, and deeply meaningful.

From recurrent UTIs to follow-ups after treatment, these moments truly matter.

#IDky #MedEd #InternalMedicine

No new material from FirstCallID today.

Think of it as “CONSOLIDATION WEEK.” 📚

Catch up, rewatch, pretend you were here from the start (all acceptable choices).

🌐 firstcallid.ca

🎥 www.youtube.com/@FirstcallID

🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

#idsky #meded #imresidents #internalmedicine

Episode 16 - The Bundle 2.0 Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 11/30/2025 · 21m

🎙️ The Host Response — Episode 16: The Bundle 2.0

Dr. Brooke Fraser returns for a review of what’s been catching our ID brains lately: teaching tools, papers that may shift practice, ideas from outside medicine, and pearls that show up in work.

For those in ID (or ID-adjacent) enjoy!

#idsky #meded

If you find repeated posts of this tweet annoying, imagine having repeated UTI's!

Hard to cure completely, but an ID assessment can go a long way in reducing episodes and shaping future evaluation and treatment.

Here’s a short video outlining an ID assessment in recurrent UTI.

#idsky #meded #uti

YouTube video by FirstcallID FirstCallID - How to do an Infectious Diseases Consult: Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

Just released 🎥

FirstCallID: Approach to Recurrent UTI.

A very common problem that still refuses to be simple.

#idsky #meded #uti

Episode 15 - Don’t Be Rash Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 11/16/2025 · 14m

🎙️ The Host Response - Don’t Be Rash

A walkthrough of dermatologic presentations with implications for infectious diseases, systemic illness, and acute care decision-making.

Focused, clinically oriented, and applicable to everyday ID practice.

#InfectiousDiseases #meded #idsky #idderm

YouTube video by FirstcallID FirstcallID - How to do an Infectious Diseases Consultation: Central Nervous System Infections

New teaching video from FCID: Approach to CNS infections (meningitis, encephalitis, abscess).

This session focuses on framing the history, contextual clues, and early evaluation. Also the importance of considering non-infectious mimics when the pieces do not fit.

#meded #idsky #CNSinfections

A paper doesn’t have to be widely read/cited to matter.

If you wrote it with a trainee, at least you know that one person learned something.

🎧 The Host Response: Publication for the Non-Publicationist
#idsky #meded

Episode 14 - Publication for the Non-Publicationist Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 11/02/2025 · 5m

On being quietly pleased with small academic wins.
On learning to say no.
On the psychic who told my mother that I’d be published.

It’s a reflection on writing, and on protecting your bandwidth.

🎧 The Host Response: Publication for the Non-Publicationist

#idsky #meded #academicmedicine

Episode 14 - Publication for the Non-Publicationist Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 11/02/2025 · 5m

On being quietly pleased with small academic wins.
On learning to say no.
On the psychic who told my mother that I’d be published.

It’s a reflection on writing, and on protecting your bandwidth.

🎧 The Host Response: Publication for the Non-Publicationist

#idsky #meded #academicmedicine

When the diagnosis is unclear, structure is your ally.

This video walks through a practical, evidence-informed way to approach FUO, grounded in real consult experience.

YouTube video by FirstcallID FirstCall ID - How to do an Infectious Diseases Consultation: Fever of Unknown Origin

New FCID teaching video - How to do an Infectious Diseases Consultation: Fever of Unknown Origin.

The consult that humbles everyone, eventually.

A structured approach to FUO...and when to stray off the path and “go for the money.”

youtu.be/afKxBzwz-d4

#idsky #meded #fuo

Finally, someone’s given a name to the performative act of expounding wisdom just recently learned… VDRAK!

Now you can spot it when you see it, chuckle when it appears, and (hopefully) catch it in yourself before falling into the same trap.

#vulgardisplayofrecentlyacquiredknowledge

Episode 13 - The Vulgar Display of Recently Acquired Knowledge (VDRAK) Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 10/19/2025 · 6m

🎙️ New Episode of The Host Response:
“The Vulgar Display of Recently Acquired Knowledge”

We’ve all seen it: the colleague who drops a shiny new fact like it’s ancient wisdom.

Let’s talk about performative expertise and why it stings (and seduces) us all.

#idsky #TheHostResponse #FirstCallID #MedEd

"Febrile neutropenia is fun...until it isn't"

No 2 cases are the same, and a structured approach to your assessment and empiric therapy is key.

Here, we cover the basics of the ID consult for patients with chemo-induced FN. A classic "on-call emergency."

(ps. FN is never fun for the patient)

YouTube video by FirstcallID FirstcallID - How to do an ID Consultation: Chemotherapy-Induced Febrile Neutropenia

New FirstCallID session: Chemotherapy-Induced Febrile Neutropenia.

A structured approach to history, exam, investigations, and empiric therapy.

🎥 youtu.be/oPhsYsWTj74

#InfectiousDiseases #MedEd #idsky

Episode 12 - The Bundle Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 10/05/2025 · 15m

🎙️ New from The Host Response: The Bundle

This episode features a new format—part roundtable, part reflection—where we talk about what’s shaping ID thinking right now.

Featuring guest host, Dr. Brooke Fraser.

🔗 firstcallid.ca
#FirstCallID #MedEd #IDsky

YouTube video by FirstcallID FirstcallID - How to do an Infectious Diseases Consultation: Non-Resolving Pneumonia

New FirstcallID Teaching Video 🎥

Approach Non-Resolving Pneumonia 🫁

A practical framework for ID consultations; covering history, exposures, investigations, and when to consider further interventions.

Watch now(and share often)!

#InfectiousDiseases #MedEd #AntibioticStewardship #idsky

If you haven't checked out this gem (odds are, you haven't yet), take a listen!

The art of "the Mulligan"...it feels great when you apply it, and it's fun to explain to trainees.

Also, it may be the best option for your patient (when used wisely).

Episode 11 - The Mulligan Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · 09/21/2025 · 5m

⛳️ THR Episode 11 – The Mulligan

In golf, a mulligan is a do-over.

In ID, sometimes the best move is the same: stop, reset, and start fresh.

We discuss the value of this strategy and when use it (or shelve it).

#InfectiousDiseases #AntibioticStewardship #MedEd #idsky

🎧 Listen here:

Reason for consult: Blood cultures positive, Gram-negative bacteria.

If only there was a resource offering an approach to this
situation...

Found it! Now take a look, and share with those taking these calls and seeing these patients.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-i...

#internalmedicine #FOAMID

YouTube video by FirstcallID FirstcallID - How to do an Infectious Diseases Consultation: Gram-negative Bacilli Bacteremia

Gram-neg bacteremia is common, important, and often the reason ID is called.

It's not just about picking an antibiotic, but also asking why it happened, and what else to do?

This FCID session reviews an approach to the patient with GNB bacteremia.

#MedEd #InfectiousDiseases #FOAMed #idsky

When trainee & attending aren’t in sync, it can feel awkward...like stepping out of an elevator that’s just shy of level.

In this THR, we explore how to spot the gap, and hopefully start closing it.

Thank you, Isaac.

I appreciate the kind words.