In this episode we discuss Dr Tom Boyles's new book: How to request a test: A clinician's guide to the interpretation and evaluation of medical tests

(https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-to-request-a-test-a-clinicians-guide-to-the-interpretation-and-evaluation-of-medical-tests-9780192866615?cc=us&lang=en&)

Dr Tom Boyles – Short biography.

Dr Boyles qualified in medicine Oxford University in 2000 and moved to South Africa in 2007, where he spent 3 years as an HIV physician at Madwaleni hospital in the rural Eastern Cape. He trained as an infectious disease specialist in Cape Town from 2010-12 and continued to work at Groote Schuur Hospital until 2017 when he moved to Johannesburg. He currently works for Right to Care, the Clinical HIV Research Unit, and as a consultant at Helen Joseph Hospital. He maintains a passion for rural medicine and his research interests include appropriate diagnostic and treatment strategies for TB and the increased use of machine learning models to advance healthcare delivery in low resource settings.