You are close to qualifying or you have already qualified. You are prepared to take on the working world of referrals, hospital jobs and the pager. Medical school taught you clinical anatomy, but possibly not clinical diplomacy. You have learnt how to diagnose illness but not how to identify trouble on the ward, or more importantly, how to avoid it.

Written by a doctor concerned by how little medical school prepares you for the blunt reality of life in a hospital environment, What They Didn't Teach You at Medical School is an indispensable guide to help you sidestep the pitfalls of the job and achieve the heights expected by all consultants.

Divided into concise, advice-packed chapters, readers will learn how to:

. stop your pager going off

. work well with other medical specialists

. refer patients and prevent referrals being 'bounced back'

. keep your seniors smiling

. get on with nurses

. get a job and a career path

This book will help you in becoming an experienced doctor, impressing your peers and helping you fast-track your career. Above all, this guide will help you to hit the ground running and give you a head start in the increasingly competitive medical world.

Auteur
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.

Résumé

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.

Contenu

A Brief History of the National Health Service.- Modern National Health Service Trusts.- Applying for Pre-registration House Officer Posts.- Surviving the Pre-registration House Officer Post.- The Team.- Your Consultant: Keeping Them Happy.- Nurses.- Radiologists and Radiographers.- Therapists and Professionals Allied to Medicine.- Referring and Requesting.- Clinics.- The Operating Theatre.- Laboratory Investigations.- Getting Registered and Applying for Senior House Office Posts.- Getting on in Your Senior House Officer Post.- Postgraduate Examinations: Member of the Royal College of Surgeons/Member of the Royal College of Physicians.- Clinical Governance.- Audit.- A Break from the Norm....