What They Didn’t Teach You at Medical School

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. A Brief History of the National Health Service

   Pages 1-2

3. Modern National Health Service Trusts

   Pages 3-4

4. Applying for Pre-registration House Officer Posts

   Pages 5-11

5. Surviving the Pre-registration House Officer Post

   Pages 13-32

6. The Team

   Pages 33-35

7. Your Consultant: Keeping Them Happy

   Pages 37-39

8. Nurses

   Pages 41-47

9. Radiologists and Radiographers

   Pages 49-53

10. Therapists and Professionals Allied to Medicine

    Pages 55-57

11. Referring and Requesting

    Pages 59-63

12. Clinics

    Pages 65-66

13. The Operating Theatre

    Pages 67-69

14. Laboratory Investigations

    Pages 71-72

15. Getting Registered and Applying for Senior House Office Posts

    Pages 73-76

16. Getting on in Your Senior House Officer Post

    Pages 77-83

17. Postgraduate Examinations: Member of the Royal College of Surgeons/Member of the Royal College of Physicians

    Pages 85-88

18. Clinical Governance

    Pages 89-91

19. Audit

    Pages 93-94

20. A Break from the Norm…

    Pages 95-101

During medical training there are certain tasks that are not taught at medical school nor in the common reference books. There are some skills that medical students are expected to learn by ‘osmosis’. These skills are never officially taught or examined in medical school, but are, however, a fundamental part of being a safe, good and efficient doctor. This book includes ‘golden rules’ or important points to remember and case examples, both of which are given as displayed extracts.

This book will help the junior doctor unlock their potential and improve their performance, cutting the time it takes to achieve certain medical objectives. It is meant to fill in the gaps where the medical school and clinical guides stop. It gives the reader the information needed to organise themselves so that they can hit the ground running. It is not intended as a clinical survival guide, but more a friendly hand to allow the reader to get ahead in medicine and how to keep on track and develop a career path.

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From the reviews:

"The book is designed to be a resource guide for what is not taught in theory classes in medical school or in clinical rotations. … The purpose is to guide medical students and then new doctors as they begin their careers in a hospital setting. … The book is written for medical students about to graduate, or newly graduated doctors who are beginning their first job or residency. The author has experienced what he has written about." (Susan C. Weltz, Doody's Review Service, August, 2007)

• St Bartholmew's and Royal London Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

  Alan V. Parbhoo

Dr Alan Parbhoo is a Senior Surgical House Officer at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Concerned by how little medical school prepared the average student for the blunt reality of life in a hospital environment, he has written this series of chapters to assist in moving from the medical school to the medical workplace.

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