School of Surgery

"What suture would you like to close with, Doctor?" asked the scrub nurse. "Errrr....Dunno, what do they normally use?" replied the surgical trainee who hadn't taken a few minutes to watch this week's...

13 Mar 201414min

Eponymously named operations give you little clue as to what they are or what they're for. One of the most commonly performed eponymous procedures is Hartmann's procedure.Jon Lund takes you though the...

9 Mar 201414min

What's a population? Easy question? Or not? What's a representative sample? What's a random sample from the population and how do you decide if the set of data you have is the same or different from y...

22 Feb 201416min

There are many ways to skin cat and many ways to image the colon. Barium enema is quickly becoming a thing of the past and being replaced by CT colonography, also called virtual colonoscopy. In this v...

8 Feb 201419min

Are you a viking who can't straighten your fingers, find it difficult to get your hand in your pocket and keep poking yourself in the eye when you're washing your face? If so, you might have Dupuytren...

31 Jan 20149min

Statistics is a bit of a mystery to most of us. Help is here from former maths teacher and current surgical trainee, Rob Radcliffe. In the third in this series explaining medical statistics, Rob expla...

25 Jan 201411min

Susan Clayton shows you how to do a laparoscopic renal pyeloplasty for pelviureteric junction (PUJ) obstruction.In this step by step video you will be taken though the stages of this key operation in ...

18 Jan 20149min

This audio podcast covers all you need to know about the aetiology, presentation, anatomy, and treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome.Ben Baker is an Academic Foundation Year 2 Doctor and Jill Arrowsmith...

11 Jan 201412min