Mastering PPIs in General Practice: Navigating Risks, Deprescribing, and Red Flags Dr. Hunter Wang

Mastering PPIs in General Practice: Navigating Risks, Deprescribing, and Red FlagsAre you confidently prescribing Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs), or do media headlines about gastric cancer and dementia leave you and your patients anxious?In this episode, from education partner MyHealth Academy, we are joined by Dr. Hunter Wang, a leading gastroenterologist, to cut through the noise surrounding one of primary care's most prescribed medications.This practical masterclass will provide primary care clinicians with an evidence-based approach to the prescribing, monitoring, and deprescribing of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The podcast will explore appropriate indications for PPI initiation, the real risks associated with long-term use, and strategies to address inappropriate prescribing in everyday practice. Listeners will also gain practical guidance on tapering and deprescribing PPIs, managing rebound symptoms, recognising PPI non-responders, and identifying alarm features requiring timely gastroenterology referral.Designed for GPs and primary care clinicians, this session will support safer, more targeted, and patient-centred management of acid suppression therapy.Continuing Professional Development (CPD): Australian general practitioners can obtain CPD points for listening to this episode from our education partner, My Health Academy.Myhealth Academy Link: https://lms-academy.myhealth.net.au/login/index.php?tenant=MHAC01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are a General Practitioner who gets invited to dozens of webinars a month. The General Practice Clinical Sessions Podcast is designed for you.Instead of giving up an evening with your family for a live webinar or your weekend for a conference, you can listen to it here whenever it's convenient, in half the time and while you are commuting, exercising or even walking the dog.It's the same education, without interrupting your life.GPs can also earn CPD hours.Earn Educational Activity (EA) CPD without sacrificing time with your family.Listen to your Clinical Sessions Podcasts on your commute or while you exercise. Then each week, calculate the amount of time you invest listening and count that as self claimed Educational Activities (EA).Earn Reviewing Performance (RP) CPD without sacrificing time with your family.After each podcast, pause for a few minutes and identify and summarise 3 key points relevant to your scope of practice.Identify the key clinical learnings that may be incorporated into the clinical assessment, work-up and/or management plan for appropriate patients.If relevant, would you change any of your management strategies for those patients identified by appropriate screening, examination and investigation.Invest 10 minutes per podcast mentally reviewing your practice. When you listen to 6 podcasts per week, you have earned an hour of Reviewing Performance CPD you can self claim.Remember to document your learning!Earn Measuring Outcomes (MO) CPD without sacrificing time with your family.To claim MO, you need:A baseline measurementA change in practiceA re-measurementReflection on the outcome1. Identify a measurable change. After the podcast, ask:“What will I do differently on Monday?”Example:Start using a screening toolChange prescribing habitsIncrease documentation of a risk factor2. Measure your baseline (quick audit). Do a small, realistic auditExamples:Review last 10 patients with condition X% who had guideline-based management% with documented counselling3. Implement the change. Apply the idea from the podcast for 2–4 weeksCould be as simple as a checklist, template, or reminder4. Re-measure. Repeat the same audit:Same sample sizeSame criteria5. Reflect & Document:What changed?Did outcomes improve?What will you keep doing?If you enjoy learning through podcasts and video podcasts then you can also access thousands of premium podcasts with PowerPoint Slides at https://www.armchairmedical.tv/podcastsEnjoying the episode?⭐ Rate this episode➕ Follow the podcast💬 Share it with a colleague who’d value conference learning without the time away