School of Surgery

"Doctor, Mrs Smith's calcium is 2.9, what do you want me to do?"
Cat Boereboom talks to Roger Stanworth about all aspects of the presentation, diagnosis and treatment of both high and low calcium. Once you've listened to this podcast you will know how to manage any calcium disorder. Mapped to the General Surgery 2016 curriculum, this podcast is also very useful listening to those taking MRCS or FRCS, as well as medical school finals.
Cat Boereboom is a trainee in General Surgery, and Roger Stanworth is Clinical Lead for Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK

Philly Horner talks to Gill Tierney about the presentation, diagnosis and treatment of small bowel obstruction, a very common condition presenting as an emergency. This podcast contains all you need to know if you're a medical student, foundation doctor (intern), or early years trainee in surgery.
Sorry about the sound in places, this was recorded on location without our usual high quality mic. Best on headphones.

All you need to know about how to interpret the results of a meta analysis in 14 minutes and 15 seconds.
If you find yourself in an exam and asked to review a meta analysis in an interview or an exam, or even if you're reading one in a journal to inform your clinical practice, this will be the best 1/4 hour you have spent in ages.
If you want a more detailed explanation and to properly understand the process, then download our other podcast about meta analysis, which gives the background to all you see here. With Brett Doleman and Jon Lund

When you are doing surgery you need to know what the instruments are called and what they are used for. In this easy to follow guide, Jon Lund and June Brown take you through the instruments you will find on a basic surgical tray, the most common tray you will use when you are starting surgery.
You'll learn the names of the instruments, why there are that shape, what they are used for, and some top tips on how to use them.
Essential for medical students, people starting surgical training and student nurses on theatre placement.

A is the first letter of ABC and is the first thing to get right when managing a trauma patient. It can be very challenging and time is pressured. In this advanced level podcast for anaesthetists and surgeons involved in trauma management, Andrew Deytrikh talks to Craig Morris about how to manage the airway in critically ill and unstable patients, those with unstable cervical spines, patients with severe facial injury, burns and other injuries with airway implications. What to do when standard measures fail is also discussed, including the when, who and how of surgical airway formation.
Listen now, so that you know what to do when you're in this situation.

Meta analysis is a very common way of bringing together data to help us decide which treatments might be best. BUT, you have to take care when interpreting them - there's a lot more to it than just looking which side of the line the little black diamond is on! How do you construct a search for a systematic review?Can you trust the result of a meta analysis? How do you know if it has been done well? How to recognise different kinds of bias, how to interpret a forest plot, and funnel plot and a bubble plot. What is the I squared statistic and what does it tell you about the data and how much to trust the result?
These and many more things to do with these common but complex analyses is explained by Brett Doleman, statistical guru!
Star in national selection academic station and FRCS academic viva

Knowing how to chose the correct statistical test is essential if you're analysing data, reading a paper or sitting in the academic stations of the FRCS or National Selection. Watch this podcast by statistical guru Brett Doleman and you'll know how to chose the right test or know if the right one has been chosen. Using a step by step, easy to follow decision tree, Brett takes you to the correct test for the type of data you have. Statistical tests demystified forever!

Functional Constipation is a really challenging condition to treat in gastroenterology and surgery. In this podcast Jon Lund asks Robin Spiller about the condition, the underlying physiology, how to differentiate from IBS constipation and the range of treatments for FC. This podcast will tell you all you need to know and more.
Robin Spiller is Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Nottingham, UK, former editor of GUT, author of the Rome III criteria and world leading expert in this field

See if you can get to the correct answers before James Cassidy does in the third and final part of Naomi Laskar's interactive teaching video on causes of chest pain you might see when covering the wards.
Really useful things to know in the middle of the night when there's no-one else around!

Naomi Laskar puts James Cassidy through his paces again in the second case of chest pain you are likely to come across as an F1/intern on a surgical or other ward.
See if you can get the right answers before James in this interactive teaching video.
All the benefits of small group teaching without the pain!