School of Surgery

You're on for surgical acute admissions - you've taken a history, examined the patient and sent off some blood tests, but you still can't figure what is wrong with your patient! What next...?
Help is at hand: Lee Creedon returns to continue his series on acute surgical imaging, this time all about ultrasound. When and where to use it are discussed, as well as limitations of the technique in the acute surgical patient. Lee takes you through some common clinical scenarios to illustrate and reinforce when ultrasound might be helpful.
Mapped to ISCP learning outcomes, this is essential viewing for medical students, foundation doctors (Interns) and core trainees (junior residents) in surgery.
Lee Creedon is a specialty registrar in surgery on the School of Surgery, Health Education East Midlands

Daniel Couch and Jennifer Murphy tell you all you ever wanted to know about hernias in this audio podcast. They discuss definition, presentation, symptoms and signs and management of hernias of all kinds as well as complications of hernia and operations for hernia.
Essential listening for all medical students and core trainees (interns) in surgery.
Daniel Couch is a general surgical registrar and Jennifer Murphy a core trainee in surgery in the East Midlands in the UK.

How confident are you with confidence intervals? Perhaps not 95%....
In this podcast Rob Radcliffe explains what confidence intervals are, how to interpret them and how they provide a deeper understanding of data and the p value. Essential viewing for any student, trainee or consultant/attending reading a scientific paper and wanting to interpret the data correctly.
Rob Radcliffe is a former maths teacher and is now a trainee in Urology in the East Midlands, UK

Lymphoma, teratoma, testicular tumours, fibroadenoma, phyllodes tumour, molar pregnancy, choriocarcinoma and metastasis are some of the things discussed in the fourth and final part of the introduction to tumour pathology, with David Semeraro and Jon Lund.

Prostate cancer, transitional cell carcinoma, sarcoma, liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, haemangiosarcoma and osteosarcoma are more of the tumours discussed by Jon Lund and David Semeraro in the third of four podcasts on the basics of pathology. Pictures of macroscopic and microscopic pathology and radiological imaging link the discussion to everyday clinical practice. David Semeraro is a consultant pathologist and Jon Lund is a surgeon at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK

What do the terms benign, malignant, histogenesis, differentiation, stage and grade mean when applied to cancer? Whats the difference between an adenoma and an an adenocarcinoma? What's the adenoma - carcinoma sequence? Without understanding these basics you'll quickly get lost when learning about cancer and treatments for cancer. All is explained in this podcast, in which Jon Lund talks to David Semeraro using examples and pictures of macroscopic and microscopic cancers including adenocarcinomas, BCCs and SCCs.

What is cancer and why do types of cancer have different names? In this podcast Jon Lund talks to David Semeraro about the origin of types of cancer, the definition of cancer and the definitions of words such as dysplasia, metaplasia, neoplasia and desmoplasia, with examples of each. Essential viewing for any medical student of trainee in surgery of pathology wanting to get to grips with the fundamentals of tumour pathology. David Semeraro is a consultant pathologist at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK and Jon Lund is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Nottingham

One of your colleagues has made an incision the wrong way on a limb and the patient complains the scar pulls and is wide. What are you going to do?
In the fourth and final instalment of probably the most important series of 4 podcasts for any aspiring surgeon to watch, Ben Baker and Jill Arrowsmith take you through how perform a z plasty, probably the simplest but one of the most useful and versatile techniques in plastic surgery, which helps to revise unsightly scars and has many other uses.
The indications, contraindications of z plasty are discussed, as well as potential complications.
On a cadaveric specimen Jill shows you how to perform a z plasty, which is an essential technique for any medical student or surgeon in training.
Made by plastic surgeons, these videos help you to get into good suturing habits from the start, rather than develop or pick up bad habits as you go along. Suture as in these videos and you'll have good technique and nice wounds for the rest of your career.
Jill Arrowsmith is a consultant in plastic and hand surgery at the world famous Pulvertaft Hand Centre at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK and Ben Baker is a trainee in plastic surgery.

The wound is the only part of the operation a patient gets to see, so make sure you get the wound closure right!
In the third instalment of probably the most important series of 4 podcasts for any aspiring surgeon to watch, Ben Baker and Jill Arrowsmith take you through how perform running mattress sutures and subcuticular sutures.
Which suture to choose and why is discussed.
On a cadaveric specimen Jill shows you how to perform a running mattress suture and subcuticular suture, both of which need to be in the repertoire for sutured skin closure and are essential skills for any medical student or surgeon in training.
Made by plastic surgeons, these videos help you to get into good suturing habits from the start, rather than develop or pick up bad habits as you go along. Suture as in these videos and you'll have good technique and nice wounds for the rest of your career.
Jill Arrowsmith is a consultant in plastic and hand surgery at the world famous Pulvertaft Hand Centre at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK and Ben Baker is a trainee in plastic surgery.

In the second instalment of probably the most important series of 4 podcasts for any aspiring surgeon to watch, Ben Baker and Jill Arrowsmith take you through how perform simple suturing.
Which suture to choose and why is discussed.
On a cadaveric specimen Jill shows you how to perform a simple interrupted suture and an interrupted mattress suture, the most common methods of sutured skin closure and essential knowledge for any medical student or surgeon in training.
Made by plastic surgeons, these videos help you to get into good suturing habits from the start, rather than develop or pick up bad habits as you go along. Suture as in these videos and you'll have good technique and nice wounds for the rest of your career.
Jill Arrowsmith is a consultant in plastic and hand surgery at the world famous Pulvertaft Hand Centre at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK and Ben Baker is a trainee in plastic surgery.