Year 6

Under Construction

  • Welcome

    Final year!

    You’ve made it! You’ve survived Fresher’s week, worked your way through hours of lectures on the Kreb’s cycle, endured day-long ward rounds, spent 8 weeks slowly going mad counting cells in a lab and realised that there can indeed be 53 weeks in a year. You’ve done the tedious stuff; now’s the chance to get stuck in on the wards, direct your own learning, work with friends, go on elective, travel and save the world and enjoy one of the best years yet.

    What do I have to learn?
    Final year is broadly divided into 3 sections;

    1. Medicine
    2. Surgery
    3. Pharmacology

    How am I supposed to learn what I need to know?
    Final year can sometimes feel a bit disjointed, jumping between professional work experience, GP and short specialist placements such as ophthalmology and ENT. You have already learnt a great deal of what you need to know, and flashbacks of 3rd year EMQs, OSCES and even the dreaded path will appear from time to time.

    Essentially, you need to have a broad understanding of medicine and surgery; knowing the key stuff about the important topics is a much better use of your time than learning a list of eponymous syndromes and trivial anatomy.

    How am I examined in final year?
    (Check the intranet for confirmation and details, but this is what I think you’ll have…)

    Writtens:

    • Extended matching questions (3hrs)
    • Single best answers (3hrs)

    *for both papers: medicine 40% (including GP & epidemiology/public health), surgery 30%, pharmacology 30%

    • Practical prescribing (1.5hrs): short answer questions and then prescriptions to write and to critique

    PACES

    • Medicine (6 stations): History, Cardiology, Respiratory, Abdomen, Neurology, Shorts
    • Surgery (6 stations): History, Vascular, Abdomen, Orthopaedics, Shorts, Images and Instruments
    • History station lasts 20minutes, all other stations last 10 minutes


  • Year Reps

    Watch This Space – Your Year Reps that will be elected in October

    Why become a year rep?

    You will have an opportunity to run for the position of being your year’s educational representation. Year Reps are your number one port of call for anything educational.

  • A number of different books get their names thrown around , but these are the ones most commonly used;

     

    Medicine:

    • Cheese and Onion (Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine for those who still don’t know – shame on you!)
    • Medicine at a Glance

    Surgery

    • Surgical Talk
    • Lecture Notes in General Surgery

    Medicine & Surgery

    • 3rd year questions
    • Get Ahead Books

    Pharmacology

    • Dr Schacter’s lecture series
    • Web CT lectures (bear in mind that some of these are quite outdated)
    • Theraputics and pharmacology for medical students by Hamilton, McCluskey, Johnston & Ritchie
    • Pod Medics notes (available online)

     

    PACES

    • Online resources on the intranet
    • Ask Dr Clarke website – examples of previous PACES stations
    • MacLeods – to recap your examination skills
    • Clinical cases and OSCES in surgery by Ramachandran and Gladman
    • Cases for PACES by Hoole, Fry, Hodson & Davies

    Revision Notes 

    This part of the page is under construction and will be ready in October

  • This part of the page is under construction and will be ready in October