Full Description
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 consultants and 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.
Contents
Part I: Pre-clinical1: Starting as a medical student2: Studying at medical school3: Preclinical medicine4: Preparing for pre-clinical exams5: Intercalated degreesPart II: Clinical medicine6: Going clinical7: Anaesthetics8: Cardiology9: Critical care10: Dermatology11: Elderly care12: Emergency medicine13: Endocrinology14: Gastroenterology15: General Practice16: Genetics17: Genitourinary medicine18: Haematology19: Immunology and allergy20: Infectious diseases and tropical medicine21: Nephrology22: Neurology23: Obstetrics and gynaecology24: Oncology25: Ophthalmology26: Paediatrics27: Palliative medicine28: Pathology29: Psychiatry30: Respiratory medicine31: RheumatologyPart III: Clinical Surgery32: Breast surgery33: Cardiothoracic surgery34: Colorectal surgery35: ENT Surgery36: Neurosurgery37: Oral and maxillofacial surgery38: Paediatric surgery39: Plastic surgery40: Trauma and orthopaedic surgery41: Vascular surgery42: UGI and HPB43: UrologyPart IV: Clinical skills44: Radiology45: Practical procedures46: Basic investigations47: Ethics and lawPart V: Assessments and examinations48: Assessments49: Preparing for clinical exams50: Clinical exams51: Written examinations52: Other assessmentsPart VI: Career planning53: Making decisions54: Getting ahead55: The elective56: Career planning
