Kapil Sugand, Miriam Berry, Imran Yusuf, Aisha Janjua, Chris Bird, David Metcalfe, Harveer Dev, Sri Thrumurthy
Kapil Sugand, Miriam Berry, Imran Yusuf, Aisha Janjua, Chris Bird, David Metcalfe, Harveer Dev, Sri Thrumurthy
Medical school is full of unfamiliar and often frightening experiences for students. In the first year, a student must move away from home, balance personal finances, assimilate large volumes of information, learn practical skills, pass high stakes exams, and face a range of unique experiences. The Oxford Handbook for Medical School provides an essential, practical guide for all students, whether you have just received your offer, you're eager to succeed on the wards, or you're about to start your final exams.
This handbook includes quick-access summaries covering the crucial information for your preclinical years and for each clinical specialty. With bullet lists of the key information you need to know, and helpful mnemonics throughout, this is a concise yet thoroughly comprehensive guide.
Written by a team of consultants and recent students, now successfully graduated and embarking on their careers, this book will be your closest companion right up to graduation. More than a survival guide, it will help you navigate the bewildering range of opportunities medical school offers, showing you how to make the most of your time, so you are fully prepared for your future career.
Part I: Pre-clinical
1: Starting as a medical student
2: Studying at medical school
3: Preclinical medicine
4: Preparing for pre-clinical exams
5: Intercalated degrees
Part II: Clinical medicine
6: Going clinical
7: Anaesthetics
8: Cardiology
9: Critical care
10: Dermatology
11: Elderly care
12: Emergency medicine
13: Endocrinology
14: Gastroenterology
15: General Practice
16: Genetics
17: Genitourinary medicine
18: Haematology
19: Immunology and allergy
20: Infectious diseases and tropical medicine
21: Nephrology
22: Neurology
23: Obstetrics and gynaecology
24: Oncology
25: Ophthalmology
26: Paediatrics
27: Palliative medicine
28: Pathology
29: Psychiatry
30: Respiratory medicine
31: Rheumatology
Part III: Clinical Surgery
32: Breast surgery
33: Cardiothoracic surgery
34: Colorectal surgery
35: ENT Surgery
36: Neurosurgery
37: Oral and maxillofacial surgery
38: Paediatric surgery
39: Plastic surgery
40: Trauma and orthopaedic surgery
41: Vascular surgery
42: UGI and HPB
43: Urology
Part IV: Clinical skills
44: Radiology
45: Practical procedures
46: Basic investigations
47: Ethics and law
Part V: Assessments and examinations
48: Assessments
49: Preparing for clinical exams
50: Clinical exams
51: Written examinations
52: Other assessments
Part VI: Career planning
53: Making decisions
54: Getting ahead
55: The elective
56: Career planning
Edited by Kapil Sugand, Trauma and Orthopaedics Registrar; Surgical Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK, Miriam Berry, Consultant Nephrologist, Birmingham, UK, Imran Yusuf, Ophthalmology Registrar; MRC Research Fellow, Oxford University, UK, Aisha Janjua, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar; NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Warwick University, UK, and Chris Bird, Consultant in Emergency Paediatric Medicine, Oxford, UK.
Consultant Editors: David Metcalfe, NIHR Clinical Fellow; Trauma and Orthopaedics Registrar, Oxford University, UK, Harveer Dev, Wellcome Trust PhD Fellow; Honorary Registrar in Urology, Cambridge University, UK, and Sri Thrumurthy, General Surgical Registrar, University College London Hospitals, UK
Besides being the Editor-in-Chief of the inaugural Oxford Handbook of Medical School, Dr (Mr) Kapil Sugand is an orthopaedic registrar based in London, author, research scientist, educator, media personality and a philanthropist with a passion in medical education. He is currently doing a PhD in trauma simulation to train future surgeons safely and his plethora of work has been featured in international media, conferences and journals. This handbook will be his fourth book as editor. He also founded and chairs a widening participation scheme on reducing the education gap nationwide to promote careers in healthcare. For all his contributions to the field of medicine and education, his biography was featured in the renowned Marquis Who's Who of the World since 2013.
Contributors:
John R. Apps (Chapter 54: Getting ahead)
Paediatric Registrar, ST5, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Trust; Honorary Research Associate, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London; Honorary Clinical Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK
Bilal Azhar (Chapter 42: UGI and HPB)
Vascular Surgery Registrar, London Deanery, London Postgraduate School of Surgery, UK
James R. Bentham (Chapter 26: Paediatrics)
Assistant Professor and Consultant Paediatric and Adult Interventional Cardiologist, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Leeds General Infirmary, Yorkshire, UK
Miriam Berry (Chapter 3: Preclinical medicine; Chapter 5: Intercalated degrees; Chapter 21: Nephrology; Chapter 48: Assessments; Chapter 50: Clinical exams; Chapter 54: Getting ahead)
Consultant Nephrologist, Birmingham, UK
Chris Bird (Chapter 3: Preclinical medicine; Chapter 7: Going clinical; Chapter 26: Paediatrics; Chapter 45 Practical procedures; Chapter 46: Basic investigations)
Consultant in Emergency Paediatric Medicine, Oxford, UK
Lesley Black (Chapter 17: Genitourinary medicine)
GP Registrar, Severn Deanery, Bristol, UK
Deborah Bowman (Chapter 47: Ethics and Law)
Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics and Medical Law at St George's, University of London, UK
Lois Brand (Chapter 53: Making decisions)
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Elsa Butrous (Chapter 54: Getting ahead)
GP ST3, Oxford Deanery, UK
James Butterworth (Chapter 34: Colorectal surgery)
Surgical Registrar ST5, Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Cancer and Surgery, Imperial College London, London, UK
William Butterworth (Chapter 34: Colorectal surgery)
Core Surgical Trainee, General Surgery, Princess Royal University Hospital, London, UK
Nandini Datta (Chapter 6: Going clinical)
Senior Resident Medical Officer, Emergency Department, Gosford Hospital, Central Coast Local Health District, Australia
Fungai Dengu (Chapter 42: UGI and HPB)
Surgical Registrar, Oxford Transplant Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
Harveer Dev (Chapter 3: Preclinical medicine; Chapter 8: Cardiology; Chapter 43: Urology; Chapter 41: Vascular surgery)
Wellcome Trust PhD Fellow & Honorary Urology Registrar in Urology, Cambridge University, UK
Kathryn Drysdale (Chapter 14: Gastroenterology)
Hepatology Clinical Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Tegwen Ecclestone (Chapter 56: Career planning)
Core trainee, Northern Deanery, UK
Daniel Fitzgerald (Chapter 56: Career planning)
Academic Foundation Doctor, South East Scotland Programme, UK
Neil Gupta (Chapter 44: Radiology)
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Joint College Tutor for Clinical Radiology, Radiology Fellowship Program Director, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire, Coventry, UK
Ruofan Connie Han (Chapter 49: Preparing for clinical exams)
ST4 in Ophthalmology, Oxford Eye Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK
Adam Handel (Chapter 50: Clinical Exams)
Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Ayad Harb (Chapter 39: Plastic surgery)
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, University Hospital North Midlands NHS Trust, UK
Amy Hawkins (Chapter 55: The elective)
Specialty Trainee in Palliative Medicine, London, UK
Catherine Hearnshaw (Chapter 50: Clinical Exams)
ST7 Paediatrics, Royal Derby Hospital, UK
Alexander J Hills (Chapter 37: Oral and Maxillofacial surgery)
Specialist Registar, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex, UK
Thiagarajan Jaiganesh (Chapter 12: Emergency Medicine)
Consultant in Adult & Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department, St George's, University of London, UK
Aisha Janjua (Chapter 50: Clinical exams; Chapter 51: Written exams)
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar and NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Warwick University, UK
Mhairi Jhugursing (Chapter 9: Critical care)
Consultant Anaesthetist, West Middlesex Hospital, London, UK
Irfan Jumabhoy (Chapter 2: Studying at medical school; Chapter 53: Getting ahead)
Core Surgical Trainee, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
Raghunath Kadiyala (Chapter 13: Endocrinology)
Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Aylesbury, UK
Sheirin Khalil (Chapter 52: Other assessments)
GP Specialty Registrar, James Paget University Hospital, Great Yarmouth, UK
Harry Krishnan (Chapter 50: Clinical Exams)
Specialist Trainee Trauma and Orthopaedics, Northwest Thames Rotation, UK
Kar-Hung Kuet (Chapter 10: Dermatology)
Specialist Registrar, Department of Dermatology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Mong-Loon Kuet (Chapter 35: ENT Surgery)
Ophthalmology Specialist Trainee, Department of Ophthalmology, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, UK
Suhas S. Kumar (Chapter 7: Anaesthetics)
Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich UK
Lily Li (Chapter 40: Trauma and orthopaedic surgery)
Specialty Registrar, Barnet Hospital, Royal Free London NHS Trust, Barnet, UK
Firas Maghrabi (Chapter 20: Infectious diseases and tropical medicine)
Clinical Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases, The National Aspergillosis Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe hospital, Manchester, UK
David Metcalfe (Chapter 8: Cardiology; Chapter 830: Respiratory medicine; Chapter 841: Vascular surgery)
NIHR Clinical Fellow and Trauma and orthopedics Registrar, University of Oxford, UK
Yasmeen Mulla (Chapter 4: Preparing for pre-clinical exams)
Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Department of General Surgery, Kettering General Hospital, Kettering, UK
Biplap Nandi (Chapter 38: Paediatric surgery)
Lecturer in surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi; Consultant paediatric surgeon, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
Fiona Napier (Chapter 3: Preclinical medicine; Chapter 7: Anaesthetics; Chapter 13: Endocrinology; Chapter 14: Gastroenterology; Chapter 21: Nephrology; Chapter 22: Neurology)
Consultant, Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
Arjun Odedra (Chapter 5: Intercalated degrees; Chapter 53: Getting ahead)
GP Specialty Trainee, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK
Nicola Okeahialam (Chapter 6: Going clinical)
Specialty Trainee Year 1, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, UK
Vishal Patel (Chapter 32: Breast surgery)
Breast and General Surgery specialist registrar, North West London Deanery, UK
Benjamin Pinkey (Chapter 6: Going clinical)
Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation trust, UK
Emma Prower (Chapter 11: Elderly care)
Intensive Care Registrar, Kings College Hospital, London, UK
Tasneem Rahman (Chapter 19: Immunology and allergy)
Specialist Registrar in Immunology and Allergy, Department of Immunopathology, Royal London Hospital, London, UK
Fatima Ravat (Chapter 2: Studying at medical school)
Postgraduate MSc Student, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Imran Raza (Chapter 34: Colorectal surgery)
Specialist Registrar in Colorectal and General Surgery, University College Hospital, London, UK
Isabel Rodriguez-Goncer (Chapter 20: Infectious diseases and tropical medicine)
Senior Clinical Fellow in Infectious diseases, The National Aspergillosis Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe hospital, Manchester, UK
Shahbaz Roshanzamir (Chapter 11: Elderly care)
Consultant Geriatrician and General Physician, Department of Ageing and Health, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Hazim Saddideen (Chapter 39: Plastic surgery)
Microsurgical Reconstruction Fellow, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK
Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek (Chapter 36: Neurosurgery)
Senior Neurosurgical Registrar, Jason Brice Fellow in Neurosurgical Research, Department of Neurosurgery, Wessex Neurological Centre, University Hospital Southampton, UK
Ashraf Sanduka (Chapter 28: Pathology)
Consultant, Department of Histopathology, West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
Guy Schofield (Chapter 27: Palliative medicine)
Specialist Registrar in Palliative Medicine, Wellcome Trust Society and Ethics Fellow, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Katherine Schon (Chapter 16: Genetics)
Specialist Registrar and Academic Clinical Fellow, Department of Clinical Genetics, East Anglian Medical Genetics Service, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Eshan Senanayake (Chapter 33: Cardiothoracic surgery)
Specialty registrar, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
Stephanie Slater (Chapter 51: Written examinations)
Carmel Stober (Chapter 31: Rheumatology)
Locum Consultant in Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Amit Sud (Chapter 18: Haematology)
Clinical research fellow, The Institute of Cancer Research / The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Kapil Sugand (Chapter 1: Starting as a medical student; Chapter 3: Preclinical medicine; Chapter 5: Intercalated degrees; Chapter 8: Cardiology; Chapter 12: Emergency medicine; Chapter 15: General practice; Chapter 30: Respiratory medicine; Chapter 34: Colorectal surgery; Chapter 41: Vascular surgery; Chapter 49: Preparing for clinical exams; Chapter 50: Clinical exams; Chapter 53: Making decisions; Chapter 54: Getting ahead)
Trauma and Orthopaedics Registrar and Surgical Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK.
Quen Tang (Chapter 40: Trauma and orthopaedic surgery)
Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Northwest Thames Rotation, department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
Hannah Tharmalingam (Chapter 24: Oncology)
Oncology Registrar, Department of Oncology, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
Jemma Theivendran (Chapter 29: Psychiatry)
Specialist Registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust; Honorary Clinical Lecturer, St George's, University of London, UK
Sri Thrumurthy (Chapter 8: Cardiology; Chapter 30: Respiratory medicine; Chapter 41: Vascular surgery)
University College London Hospitals NHS Trusts, UK
Alex Tsui (Chapter 22: Neurology)
Specialist Registrar, Clinical Research Fellow, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, UK
Laura Watson (Chapter 15: General practice)
GP, Beaumont Street Surgery, Oxford; Emergency Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Imran Yusuf (Chapter 1: Starting as a medical student; Chapter 2: Studying at medical school; Chapter 7: Going clinical; Chapter 50: Clinical exams; Chapter 56: Career planning)
Ophthalmology Registrar and MRC Research Fellow, Oxford University, UK
". a great summation of the information needed to succeed in medical school. Had this been available to me when I was starting medical school, it would have saved me hours of research online to find the answers" - Reviewer Feedback - Recently graduated medical student
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