School of Surgery
173 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAudio and video podcasts aimed at medical students and doctors in training on a growing range of topics across surgery.
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Chest pain on the surgical ward
July 30, 2016 00:00 - 31 minutes - 248 MB VideoNaomi Laskar teaches James Cassidy in an interactive video on chest pain on the surgical ward. Using a series of cases common causes of chest pain are discussed and the video will help you to develop a structured approach to reviewing chest pain and understand the basic management of chest pain. Common life threatening and non life threatening causes are covered, with important points in the history, examination, investigation, treatment and prognosis explained, with plenty of acrony...
How to apply for core surgical training
June 28, 2016 00:00 - 15 minutes - 28.8 MBIts never too early to think about getting yourself ready for successful application to core surgical training, be you medical student or foundation doctor. In this podcast Ricky Ellis and Susan Hall explain the process and give their tips for success. Good luck!
Delirium - All you need to know
June 25, 2016 00:00 - 14 minutes - 26.7 MBIt is not uncommon to be called to see a patient who has experienced a sudden change in their mental state. The patient is often suffering from one of the forms of delirium, and puts them at increased risk of complication, injury and death. In this podcast Ricky Ellis and Christine Taylor discuss what delirium is, why it is important, how to recognise it, who is at risk, how we can prevent it and how we can treat it
Mental Capacity - who, what, why, when and how - essential knowledge for all clinicians
June 03, 2016 00:00 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBAssessing the capacity of patients is an essential skill for all doctors, not least surgeons, as it is intimately related to taking consent and treating any patient correctly. In one of the most important podcasts from the School of Surgery, Ricky Ellis and Christine Taylor discuss capacity, the Mental Capacity Act, how to assess and enhance capacity and how to care for patients without capacity. The 5 key principles of the Mental Capacity Act are clearly explained as is how to act i...
How to obtain informed consent
May 28, 2016 00:00 - 3 minutes - 20.7 MBEvery surgeon needs to obtain informed consent before proceeding with any procedure. Ricky Ellis talks to Daniel Couch about consent, how best to take it and the framework around consent. Essential listening for any medical student and surgeon in training. Ricky Ellis and Daniel Couch are both training in Surgery in the East Midlands of the UK at the Royal Derby Hospital
Medical Statistics X: Funnel Plots
May 02, 2016 00:00 - 9 minutes - 76.2 MB VideoFunnel plots are a central part of how the results of a meta analysis are presented. Learn what they are, what they mean and how to interpret them with Rob Radcliffe.
Breast Cancer 3: How to treat Breast Cancer
February 17, 2016 00:00 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBIn the third and final episode of this series, Phil Herrod talks to Mark Sibbering about how to treat breast cancer with surgical and hormonal, chemo and radiotherapies, discussing the indications for each.
Breast Cancer 2: Demographics, risk factors, classification, presentation and screening
February 06, 2016 00:00 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBIn part 2 of our 3 part series on breast cancer Phil Herrod talks to Mark Sibbering about incidence, risk factors, survival, family history and genetics, and classification of breast cancer. Also covered is the presentation of breast cancer and a quick overview of the breast cancer screening programme in the UK. Mapped to undergraduate and postgraduate learning objectives, this podcast will provide all you need to know as a medical student or early years surgical trainee about these ...
Breast Surgery I - History Taking, Triple Assessment and Benign Breast Disease
January 06, 2016 00:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBDiseases of the breast are very common and varied, from simple cysts to cancer. All doctors need to know about breast disease and in the first of a series aimed at making you an expert, Phil Herrod asks Miss Carol-Ann Courtney about how to take a history from a patient with a problem in the breast, the gold standard "triple assessment" of breast lumps and gets an overview of benign breast disease. Essential listening for all medical students and junior doctors. Sorry about the sound ...
Hip fractures - Basics
December 06, 2015 14:49 - 12 minutes - 132 MB VideoTO VIEW PLEASE DOWNLOAD Risk factors, history, signs, X-ray appearances and classification of fractured neck of femur are all covered in this video podcast aimed at medical students and interns/foundation/core doctors in training. Next time you see someone on a trolley in the ER with a shortened externally rotated leg you'll know exactly what to do. Naomi Laskar and Pete Legg are trainees in Surgery in the East Midlands, UK
How to interpret an abdominal CT
November 23, 2015 08:34 - 25 minutes - 260 MB VideoTO VIEW PLEASE DOWNLOAD The CT scan has become central in the management of abdominal conditions, especially emergencies. But how do you interpret a CT when theres no radiologist around or you can't wait for the report? Pete Thurley tells Jon Lund the secrets of radiology and gives a structure to looking at CTs so that you never miss anything again. Essential viewing for all for both exams and real life! Pete Thurley is a Consultant Radiologist at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK and Jon...
Urological Trauma
November 07, 2015 00:00 - 14 minutes - 6.56 MBYou're called by the Emergency Department saying that someone has crashed a car with a full bladder and they are worried about injury to the bladder and kidney. They are unstable. Do you know what to do? Well, if you have listened to this podcast by Andrew Deytrikh and Simon Williams you will know how to safely manage all kinds of urological trauma. Penetrating and blunt trauma to bladder and kidney are covered, with classic history, presenting features, investigations to be performe...
Examination of pulses and use of the Doppler
October 17, 2015 00:00 - 6 minutes - 68.4 MB VideoGreg McMahon shows James Blackwell how to find and examine the aorta and peripheral pulses by hand and using the Doppler probe. Have a look at our podcast on ABPI as well and you'll pass that OSCE station with no problem at all! Greg McMahon is a consultant vascular surgeon and James Blackwell is a research fellow in Surgery at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK
Medical Statistics IX - Bias, relative risk and odds ratio
October 06, 2015 00:00 - 15 minutes - 119 MB VideoIf you think that relative risk is worrying that Uncle Brian will start dancing at the wedding, then you need to watch this podcast by Rob Radcliffe. Rob explains and helps you define, recognise and avoid bias in trials and explains what relative risk and odds ratio are, and the difference between them. Essential listening if you want to be able to read and interpret others research, or design your own. Also very useful for those pesky exams and academic stations in selection process...
Clinical Academic Careers - how to succeed
September 24, 2015 00:00 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MBWant to have a career as a clinical academic? Want to be a professor one day? Listen to this podcast and find out how to be successful. Keaton Jones talks to Dr Denise Best about the background to integrated clinical academic careers in the UK and pathway for clinical academic training from the academic foundation programme onwards. Application and progression from academic foundation programme (AFP), through the academic clinical fellowship (ACF) programme and academic clinical lect...
Angina - part 1: definition, diagnosis and investigation
September 24, 2015 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.9 MBAngina is a very common condition that all doctors will come across in their normal working day. In this podcast Dr Damian Kelly tells Jon Lund: 1. how to define angina what the terms stable and unstable angina mean and the implications of each 3. a description of the typical history of angina about underlying causes, risk factors and relevant investigations for angina 4. about the role of a rapid access chest pain clinic Objectives are mapped to the University of Nottingham, UK clin...
Angina - part 2: Treatment options
September 24, 2015 00:00 - 18 minutes - 8.29 MBIn Part 1 Dr Damian Kelly discussed definitions and diagnosis of angina and in part 2 he tells us what treatments can be offered, from rehabilitation and medical treatments, through angioplasty and stenting to the role of cardiac surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting. The implications of a diagnosis of angina on the lifestyle and work of a patient are also discussed. Topics in the podcast are mapped to the clinical phase 3 (final) objectives of the University of Nottingham, UK ...
All you need to know about ankle brachial pressure index
September 18, 2015 00:00 - 12 minutes - 151 MB VideoABPI is not a credit card interest rate, but just about the most important measurement you can make in vascular surgery.Find out what it is, what it means, who not to do it on, and a video on how to perform it quickly and efficiently using our point of view technique (like you're really there!) with James Blackwell (research fellow in surgery) and Greg McMahon (consultant in Vascular Surgery, Royal Derby Hospital, UK). This comes up in OSCEs a lot and so is essential knowledge for ex...
How to succeed: Enhancing your CV during your foundation jobs
September 11, 2015 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBSo, you've just started as an F1. This is the time to start thinking about how to get that core training job. Naomi Laskar, James Blackwell and Jon Lund give you top tips and a recipe for how to succeed in developing your CV to make you successful when applying for core training. There's advice for any speciality with some specific advice for surgical core interviews for how to get the most out of audit, research, teaching, leadership, presentations, publications, experience and much...
How to be a good F1
August 02, 2015 00:00 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBMoving from being a medical student to being a doctor is probably the biggest change you'll ever have in your professional life. In many surveys most new doctors say that they weren't prepared for what starting as a real doctor entailed. But DON'T PANIC - help is at hand from Naomi Laskar and friends Reena Shaunak and David Restall, who are all just about to finish their first year as foundation year 1 doctors (interns). With tips on keeping an up to date job list, running an efficie...
All you need to know about Hiatus Hernia
August 01, 2015 00:00 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MBSliding or rolling? That is the question! Or at least one of the questions you will need to know the answer to when you encounter a hiatus hernia. Whatever branch of medicine or surgery you go into you will need to know about this increasingly common condition. Eleanor Rudge discusses anatomy, types of hernia, physiology, presentation, investigation and treatment of hiatal hernia with Eric Sheu. Eleanor Rudge is a research fellow in surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Univers...
Nissen's Fundoplication - all you need to know and video of the operation
July 30, 2015 00:00 - 14 seconds - 293 MB VideoNissen's fundoplication is probably the most common procedure used to treat gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD or GERD, depending where you live and how you feel about a dipthong). In this video Keaton Jones explains the indications, anatomy, technique and complications of this operation and you can watch the operation being performed by Mr Shaun Appleton, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at Buckinghamshire Healthcare, UK. Watch this with our other podcast, All you need to know about...
Histology of Bone
July 20, 2015 00:00 - 9 minutes - 98.5 MB VideoIf you want to know what bone is: watch this! An essential guide to bone, its formation, remodelling and maintenance is given by Susan Anderson in this microscopic tour of the substance that holds us up and will be here long after the rest of us is gone. Underlying mechanisms are discussed as is the pathogenesis at a cellular level of osteoporosis, Paget's Disease and osteogenesis imperfecta. Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham.
Histology of undecalcified bone - cortex, canaliculi and canals
July 17, 2015 00:00 - 4 minutes - 49.2 MB VideoSusan Anderson (Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Nottingham) takes you on a microscopic tour of the structure of bone with some of the most beautiful histological images in the series yet. See the structure of bone, haversian canals, osteons, lamellae and learn how osteocytes communicate information about stresses in the bone and how to grow and maintain bone. Also, if you're stuck for naming your baby, you can decide whether Clopton is a nice name for a boy!
Hyaline Cartilage
July 17, 2015 00:00 - 4 minutes - 48.4 MB VideoDownload this for Susan Anderson to show you hyaline cartilage, and you can also find out why 18th century sailors had wobbly teeth and wounds which didn't heal well...
Diabetes and Surgery - Part2 - dealing with diabetic emergencies
July 14, 2015 00:00 - 8 minutes - 3.8 MB"Doctor!" the nurse shouts, "the patient admitted earlier with abdominal pain has a blood sugar of 36! He doesn't look very well! What shall I do?!" Fortunately, you had listened to this podcast by Naomi Laskar and Roger Stanworth about recognising and dealing with diabetic emergencies on the surgical ward, and you knew exactly what was going on and what to do! This podcast covers diabetic ketoacidosis (not infrequently presenting to surgery as abdominal pain as the main symptom), th...
Diabetes and Surgery - Part1
July 14, 2015 00:00 - 8 minutes - 4.08 MBMany patients who we operate on have diabetes as well. Complications are more common in patients with diabetes and we need to know how to look after their blood sugar, where to put them on the operating list, how to deal with the nil by mouth periods, how to prescribe insulin and when and special precautions which we need to take when arranging imaging for these patients. Naomi Laskar talks to Roger Stanworth about how to look after a patient with diabetes on a surgical ward. Essent...
Basics of Diabetes
July 13, 2015 00:00 - 12 minutes - 17 MBDiabetes is a common and growing co-morbidity in whatever branch of medicine you go in to. In this audio podcast, Roger Stanworth talks to Naomi Laskar about this condition. Types of diabetes and their aetiology and presentation are covered as well as HbA1c, WHO recommendations, different management plans for each type of diabetes, drugs and their contraindications are also covered. Roger Stanworth is a consultant diabetologist and Naomi Laskar is a foundation doctor, both at the Roy...
Abdominal Trauma
July 06, 2015 00:00 - 15 minutes - 7.02 MB"Doctor - what do you want to do with the patient with abdominal trauma now? Laparotomy? CT??" you are asked by the Emergency Room staff. You strike a wise pose, remember that you have listened to Andrew Deytrikh talk to Adam Brooks about abdominal trauma in this podcast, and say "Physiology drives decision making in major trauma" and then do the right thing for the patient. This podcast discusses all aspects of blunt and penetrating abdominal trauma beyond immediate ATLS. Patterns o...
What blood looks like down the microscope
June 22, 2015 00:00 - 7 minutes - 75.2 MB VideoCan you tell the difference between a monocyte and a basophil? Would you know what an eosinophil looked like if it came up to you and introduced itself? Where do platelets come from? If I have worms, what cells are responsible for killing them? All this and much more answered as Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of blood on a microscopic scale, teaching you how to identify red cells, granulocytes, lymphocytes, platelets, monocytes, basophils, eosinophils and neutrophil polymorphs an...
Histology of arteries, veins and capillaries
June 18, 2015 00:00 - 8 minutes - 36.2 MB VideoWhat's in the walls of your blood vessels? How are arteries different from veins? What is a capillary? All these questions and more and some clinical applications are explained by showing what these structures look like down the microscope in this really useful podcast from Dr Susan Anderson, Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK
How to talk about a disease
June 18, 2015 00:00 - 12 minutes - 18.4 MB Video"You, boy/girl! Tell me about this disease!" the consultant shouts at you in the middle of a ward round. Your eyes widen, your heart thumps, everyone looks at you, you break out into a cold sweat. You can't think of what to say! If only you'd watched this podcast on how to structure facts about any disease in a logical and easy to remember way. Exasperated the consultant moves onto your colleague who has watched this podcast, and gives a perfect answer using the In A Surgeon's Gown A...
Histology of the trachea
June 15, 2015 11:10 - 4 minutes - 49.4 MB VideoThe trachea, or windpipe in lay language, is a large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchi and allowing air to pass to and from the lungs. Ideal for medical students and surgeons in training, Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of the histology of this tube, including revealing its ciliated pseudo stratified mucous membrane and the C-shaped hyaline cartilages which keep the trachea open. Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of...
Histology of the lung
June 12, 2015 00:00 - 7 minutes - 79.9 MB VideoWhat is the Latin word for eyelash and why is this relevant to the histology of the lung? To find out you need to watch this video podcast of the histology of the lung with Susan Anderson. As well as a refresher in Latin, also covered are structure of the airways, changes in the mucous membrane cell types, alveoli, surfactant, bronchodilators and why you hear crackles when you listen to the chest of someone with fibrosing alveolitis. Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathol...
Histology around the gastro-oesophageal junction
June 11, 2015 00:00 - 4 minutes - 41.9 MB VideoSusan Anderson takes you through the differences between the histology of the oesophagus and the stomach. Cell types and function and Barrett's oesophagus are discussed. Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Histology of the stomach and duodenum
June 10, 2015 10:33 - 5 minutes - 54 MB VideoYou need to know what normal looks like before you can recognise what is abnormal. Susan Anderson takes you on a tour of the mucosa of the stomach and duodenum in this video podcast. You'll be able to see the different structures in the mucosa, glands and those villi which become atrophic in coeliac disease. A much more interesting way to learn about histology than looking in a textbook and quicker than sitting in a lecture. Dr Susan Anderson is Associate Professor of Surgery at the ...
Histology of the anorectal junction
June 10, 2015 09:40 - 3 minutes - 16.7 MB VideoKnowing the histology and embryology of the anorectal junction helps you to understand why you should band piles above the dentate line, why cancers in the region have different tissues of origin and spread to different lymph nodes. In this video podcast Susan Anderson takes you though important histological features of the large bowel and contrasts them with the different features of the anal canal. Clinical application of these features is also described Dr Susan Anderson is Associ...
Morbid Obesity - part 2
May 24, 2015 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13 MB VideoPart 1 of this podcast left you on the edges of your seats wondering about complications and long term follow up. In part 2 you can find out about what can go wrong after bariatric surgery and what to do about it from Eleanor Rudge and Ali Tavakkoli. Also, how to look after morbidly obese patients in the long term after surgery is discussed. Eleanor Rudge is a Speciality Registrar in the East of England and Surgical Research Fellow at Harvard and Dr Ali Tavakkoli is a Bariatric Cons...
Morbid obesity - part 1
May 23, 2015 00:00 - 13 minutes - 25.8 MB VideoMorbid obesity is a significant problem for healthcare and public health around the world. Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, is increasingly used to help people who cannot lose weight in other ways and who's excess weight is causing other medical problems. In this audio podcast, mapped to ISCP learning objectives, Eleanor Rudge talks to Ali Tavakkoli about surgical treatment, multidisciplinary team assessment and the importance of psychological and dietetic assessment and in...
Chest trauma
April 25, 2015 00:00 - 16 minutes - 7.74 MBPenetrating wounds to the chest can be immediately life threatening, requiring quick decision making and the right intervention. Everyone in the emergency department will be looking at you as the surgeon on the scene. Do you know what to do and why you'd be doing it? In this audio podcast Andrew Deytrikh talks about the management of penetrating chest trauma with Adam Brooks. Mapped to ISCP objectives, differentiation between haemo and pneumothorax, safe chest drain insertion, needle...
All you need to know about Antireflux Surgery
February 18, 2015 00:00 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBAcid reflux is a very common condition presenting to general practice and to surgeons. In this podcast Keaton Jones talks to Shaun Appleton, consultant Upper GI Surgeon about this condition and its management. Definition, prevalence, risk factors, non-surgical treatment, tests, indications for surgery, various surgical procedures and their risks and effectiveness are all covered in this "all you need to know" podcast. Keaton Jones is an Academic Clinical Fellow at the University of O...
Medical Statistics VIII - Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves
February 12, 2015 00:00 - 3 minutes - 144 MB VideoThere are 2 test I can use to see if this patient has got cancer, which one is best? How do I know? How can I compare them?? These were just some of the thoughts going through the candidates mind as his stared at the paper in the academic viva in national selection! If only they'd listened to Rob Radcliffe, who is on hand to explain how you do just that using receiver operating characteristic curves, a really easy way to compare the performance of tests and probably the most useful ...
How to examine the abdomen - part 1
December 08, 2014 00:00 - 7 minutes - 77.6 MB VideoWhether you are a pre-clinical medical student or an elderly surgeon, you need to know how to examine the abdomen properly. In this video, produced by James Blackwell, Jon Lund takes you through abdominal examination. It is shot in real time so that you can aim to get quick, slick and accurate for undergraduate and postgraduate exams...and real life! Look out for part 2, which takes you through abdominal examination more slowly with explanatory commentary and point of view footage so...
How to examine the abdomen - part 2
December 08, 2014 00:00 - 7 minutes - 82.1 MB Video"Do it fast, do it slow, talk 'em through it, let ' em go" is the mantra for teaching motor skills. We did it fast in part 1 and now Jon Lund and James Blackwell are going through the examination of the abdomen slowly and talking you through the stages, important points and things to look out for. Some of this video is shot from a "point of view" standpoint so that you can see the examination as if you were doing it and also see clearly how some parts of the examination are performed...
Fundamentals of Arterial Blood Gases - part 2
December 03, 2014 00:00 - 9 minutes - 95.8 MB VideoRight - you've got the basics covered in part 1, now we're moving on to how to interpret blood gases and put them in a clinical context. Jamie Blackwell and Tim Watkins take you through how to easily and simply interpret blood gas results whenever you need to using an easy to remember 5 step approach. The 5 step method is then used in a series of actual clinical cases so you can see it in action or try for yourself by pausing the video before the answers. Never fear blood gases again...
Fundamentals of Arterial Blood Gases - Part 1
December 03, 2014 00:00 - 8 minutes - 74.2 MB VideoYou're called to see a very sick person on the ward in the middle of the night. You send off some investigations and because they are sick you take some arterial blood for blood gas analysis. You ring the boss who asks you what the blood gases indicate. A bead of sweat breaks out on your forehead as you realise that you have no idea what the numbers on the blood gas print out mean. There goes the reference...... But then you realise that you can interpret blood gases after all, beca...
Acute inflammation - part 4
November 17, 2014 00:00 - 10 minutes - 22.1 MB VideoDo you have a funis? Did you ever have one? Do only boys have one? No clue?? Then listen to this podcast where David Semeraro tells Jon Lund all about acute inflammation using funisitis, meningitis, conjunctivitis, pericarditis, pneumonia and TB as examples, with clinical slides to illustrate the points made. This podcast brings together messages from the other 3 in the series to round off what you need to know about acute inflammation for undergraduate and postgraduate exams, work a...
acute Inflammation - part 3
November 17, 2014 00:00 - 13 minutes - 29.6 MB VideoIn part 3 of this podcast telling you all you need to know about acute inflammation, David Semeraro talks about the vascular and cellular components of acute inflammation, diapedesis, chemical mediators of acute inflammation, cytokines and much more, using clinical pictures and histological slides and conditions such as appendicitis and cellulitis as examples. David Semeraro is a consultant histopathologist at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK.
Acute Inflammation - part 2
November 17, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 104 MB VideoColor, Rubor, Turgor, Dolor and Functio Laesa were not the lesser known reindeer pulling Santa's sled, but are the cardinal clinical signs of acute inflammation. In part 2 of his explanation of acute inflammation, David Semeraro talks to Jon Lund about these terms, explains how neutrophils leave the blood vessels to be involved in the inflammatory process and explains what oedema and exudate are are why they're important. Even wondered about the difference between exudate and transud...
Acute Inflammation - part 1
November 16, 2014 00:00 - 13 minutes - 121 MB VideoInflammation is at the very heart of many disease processes, from infection and trauma to ageing and cancer. Split across 4 episodes, David Semeraro talks to Jon Lund about acute inflammation, covering definitions, mechanisms and progress with many examples from clinical cases, histopathological and macroscopic inflamed organ specimens. Listening to this series of podcasts will tell you all you need to know about the basics of acute inflammation, a thorough knowledge of which is esse...