School of Surgery

Morbid obesity is a significant problem for healthcare and public health around the world. Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, is increasingly used to help people who cannot lose weight in othe...

23 Maj 201513min

Penetrating wounds to the chest can be immediately life threatening, requiring quick decision making and the right intervention. Everyone in the emergency department will be looking at you as the surg...

25 Apr 201516min

Acid reflux is a very common condition presenting to general practice and to surgeons. In this podcast Keaton Jones talks to Shaun Appleton, consultant Upper GI Surgeon about this condition and its ma...

18 Feb 20159min

There are 2 test I can use to see if this patient has got cancer, which one is best? How do I know? How can I compare them?? These were just some of the thoughts going through the candidates mind as h...

12 Feb 20153min

"Do it fast, do it slow, talk 'em through it, let ' em go" is the mantra for teaching motor skills. We did it fast in part 1 and now Jon Lund and James Blackwell are going through the examination of t...

8 Dec 20147min

Whether you are a pre-clinical medical student or an elderly surgeon, you need to know how to examine the abdomen properly. In this video, produced by James Blackwell, Jon Lund takes you through abdom...

8 Dec 20147min

Right - you've got the basics covered in part 1, now we're moving on to how to interpret blood gases and put them in a clinical context.Jamie Blackwell and Tim Watkins take you through how to easily a...

3 Dec 20149min

You're called to see a very sick person on the ward in the middle of the night. You send off some investigations and because they are sick you take some arterial blood for blood gas analysis. You ring...

3 Dec 20148min