Talking Christmas evidence 2024

In this special festive episode, Helen MacDonald, Juan Franco, and guest Tim Feeney discuss three intriguing themes from BMJ's 2024 Christmas edition: cognitive dysfunction in careers that require spatial cognition, and in large language models; the effectiveness of heated mittens on osteoarthritis hand symptoms; and a trial exploring just-in-time training for doctors. 00:40 Cognitive dysfunction and hippocampus stimulating jobs 07:00 Cognitive testing of large language models 10:30 Warming mittens for osteoarthritis 17:11 Coaching clinicians for high-stakes procedures Reading list Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers Age against the machine—susceptibility of large language models to cognitive impairment Effect of heated mittens on physical hand function in people with hand osteoarthritis Coaching inexperienced clinicians before a high stakes medical procedure