Secrets of Success: Getting into Medical School is written for all potential medical students, including graduate entry-level and is specifically intended to guide applicants through all stages of the online process. By adopting a pragmatic approach to enhance communication, and demonstrating how to immerse yourself in your career, this essential book will give you practical guidance on the admission process and sound factual content, as well as helping you to reach your potential by developing your ability to reflect on and promote your strengths and achievements. Plus, Secrets of Success tips on how to doing well in entrance exams, and how to make yourself a more competitive applicant. Getting into medical school is designed to become a personalized workbook as the reader progresses through the application process, and is a must-have for every want-to-be medical student.

Applying to medical school has become increasingly competitive, with greater numbers of students applying every year. Applicants must take every available opportunity to make themselves stand out amongst the competition if they want to have a chance of getting into the school of their choice. Secrets of Success: Getting into Medical School is written for all potential medical students and is intended to guide applicants on making the right choices in choosing schools and optimizing their performance in the application process.

Following on from the highly successful first edition, published in 2006, the second edition of Basic Orthopaedic Sciences has been fully updated and revised, with every chapter rewritten to reflect the latest research and practice. The book encompasses all aspects of musculoskeletal basic sciences that are relevant to the practice of orthopaedics and that are featured and assessed in higher specialty exams. While its emphasis is on revision, the book contains enough information to serve as a concise textbook, making it an invaluable guide for all trainees in orthopaedics and trauma preparing for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) as well as for surgeons at MRCS level, and other clinicians seeking an authoritative guide. The book helps the reader understand the science that underpins the clinical practice of orthopaedics, an often neglected area in orthopaedic training, achieving a balance between readability and comprehensive detail. Topics covered include biomechanics, biomaterials, cell & microbiology, histology, structure & function, immunology, pharmacology, statistics, physics of imaging techniques, and kinesiology.

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2015 Orthopaedic Trauma: The Stanmore and Royal London Guide is a definitive and practical guide to musculoskeletal trauma surgery with an emphasis on the techniques employed and the reasoning behind them. Written with the needs of trainees in orthopaedic surgery in mind, this comprehensive book systematically covers all aspects of trauma of the upper limb, lower limb, and spine, with separate sections on paediatric trauma. Many chapters include detailed descriptions of the initial diagnosis and management of common injuries as well as the consent process, theatre set-up, and surgical approach required for operative treatment. The book also features sections on topics such as polytrauma, pelvic trauma, and resuscitation, enabling the reader to learn safe, evidence-based approaches. Information on complications, key references, viva and multiple-choice questions to test understanding of concepts covered are included in each chapter, allowing the book to be used both as a practical guide to the treatment of patients and as a preparation tool for postgraduate orthopaedic examinations. This book complements the successful titles Basic Orthopaedic Sciences: The Stanmore Guide and Operative Orthopaedics: The Stanmore Guide.

Surgical diagnoses are often made on the basis of clinical assessment alone and thus achieving competence in clinical skills remains imperative to good practice in surgery. This book of over 140 cases is designed for candidates preparing for all surgical examinations, whether at undergraduate, postgraduate or exit examination level. It will demystify and simplify the clinical assessment of surgical cases and provides invaluable advice on how to achieve success. The text includes top tips, acronyms and up-to-date summaries of current practice based on the authors' personal experience of surgical examinations. All the cases are graded in terms of likely appearance in the examinations. Top tips emphasize specific subjects which often cause confusion. The text includes both commonly asked and advanced questions relating to each case. Examples of the common procedures and props that come up in the skill-based examination format are included. This fully revised Third Edition now includes 175 photographs of clinical cases and signs as well as key manoeuvres performed during specific surgical examination routines.

It is not always easy for doctors to make the right choices for themselves when the world of medicine offers so much diversity. Indeed, Specialty training is now a very significant crossroads in a junior doctor's career - choosing the most appropriate direction can be mind-boggling. There is a need to be realistic, to have clear goals and objectives, and often to recognise these before setting out on the first few steps into a field. Secrets of Success: Getting into Specialty Training aims to guide applicants for these posts through the various stresses and challenges of the application and interview processes and enable them to increase their own chances of successfully securing their dream job. A section on background is followed by chapters exploring the application process and how candidates can expect to be scored. There is a large section providing candidates with possible application questions and example answers, covering such areas as academic achievement, audit, professional integrity, teamwork and coping under pressure as well as some specialty-specific questions. The reader is then guided through portfolio preparation and the interview process, and the book ends with a useful what next' section, including invaluable advice on what to do if things don't go so well. Secrets of Success: Getting into Specialty Training is a practical handbook, presented in a clear and friendly style, with space for the reader to write their own notes as they go along. This book is an essential guide for all junior doctors before and during the application and interview process, and will arm the reader with the tools they need to help them successfully cross this important career hurdle.

The second edition of Basic Orthopaedic Sciences has been fully updated and revised to cover the latest breadth of topics in orthopaedic basic science. The book encompass all aspects of musculoskeletal basic sciences that are relevant to the practice of orthopaedics, and that are featured and assessed in the FRCS Higher Specialty exams. Based on the authoritative 'Stanmore course' run by the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, the book contains enough information to serve as a concise textbook while its emphasis is on revision.Basic Orthopaedic Sciences provides an authoritative guide to the basic sciences underpinning the practice of orthopaedic surgery, covering aspects of biomechanics, biomaterials, cell & microbiology, histology, structure & function, immunology, pharmacology, statistics, physics of imaging techniques, and kinesiology as relevant to the subject of orthopaedics.The book continues to help trainees understand the science that underpins the clinical practice of orthopaedics, an often neglected area in orthopaedic training, achieving a balance between readability and comprehensive detail.Basic Orthopaedic Sciences is an invaluable guide for all trainees in orthopaedics and trauma preparing for the FRCS, as well as for surgeons at MRCS level.

Presented in a question-and-answer format, Anatomy Vivas for the Intercollegiate MRCS will help candidates prepare for the anatomy section of the new Intercollegiate MRCS exam and will aid their learning in the format in which they will be tested. The book is unique in that it is based on the new examination. It is divided into the specialty areas and is based on clinical scenarios. Featuring photographs of dissections, detailed diagrams and radiographic images, the book is the most concise and accurate anatomy aid for the MRCS examination. Written by recent candidates, experienced surgical anatomists and authors of other successful MRCS guides, it features explanations presented in a memorable, logical and easy to learn manner, and highlights areas that regularly feature in the exam. Past questions, core topics and recurring themes are discussed in detail, ensuring that candidates are as prepared as possible. It is an indispensable guide to success.