As a podcast devotee, one of the first things Dr Amanda Nikolic did to prepare for her general surgery fellowship exams was to look for a series to help her study. 

She found only a few international surgical podcasts and none with an Australian flavour. 

So, she bought a microphone on Amazon, googled ‘how to make a podcast’ and started recording her own. It was the midst of Melbourne’s first lockdown in 2020. 

Almost 120 episodes and four years later, that podcast called First Incision has been streamed 250,000 times and listened to by doctors around the world.