Oxford Handbook for Medical School

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 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.

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,Chris Bird, Consultant in Emergency Paediatric Medicine, Oxford, 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 contribution to the field of medicine and education, his biography was featured in the renowned Marquis Who's Who of the World since 2013.

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