Surgical Resources

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This page contains hypertext links to useful surgical web sites, journals, medical publishers and other surgically orientated internet resources Trainee Groups NHS Jobs British institutions and organisations  International institutions and organisations General medical web sites Surgical journals Medical publishers  Evidence-based medicine Medical and surgical resources

Trainee Groups The Duke's Club The Mammary Fold The Rouleaux Club British institutions & organisations Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Association of Surgeons in Training Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland British Association of Day Surgery British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons British Association of Paediatric Surgeons British Association of Surgical Oncology British Association of Urological Surgeons British Orthopaedic Association British Orthopaedic Research Society British Society for Surgery of the Hand British Transplantation Society ENT UK Intercollegiate Specialty Boards Joint Committee for Higher Surgical Training Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons of England Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow Society of Academic and Research Surgery Vascular Surgical Society International institutions & organisations American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons American College of Surgeons American Society for Colon & Rectal Surgeons Canadian Association of Paediatrics Surgeons European Society of Vascular Surgery Royal Australian College of Surgeons Society for Ambulatory Surgery The Transplantation Society General medical web sites Surgical Course Dundee Surgical Skills Unit General Medical Council Leeds Institute for Minimally Invasive Therapy Royal Society of Medicine RSCH Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit

Surgical journal Archives of Surgery Annals of Surgery British Journal of Plastic Surgery British Journal of Surgery Canadian Journal of Surgery Disease of Colon and Rectum European Journal of Surgical Oncology Gut Journal of the American College of Surgeons Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [British] Journal of Trauma New England Journal of Medicine Postgraduate Medical Journal The Breast The Lancet World Journal of Surgery Medical publishers Arnold BIOS Blackwell science Harcourt Brace Oxford University Press W B Saunders Evidence based medicine Bandolier NHS library for Health Centre for evidence based medicine Medical audit

Medical and surgical resources

Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews consists of a rapidly growing collection of regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of health care. They are prepared from analyses of randomised controlled trials. Evidence is included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria to minimise bias. Data are often combined into a meta-analysis to increase the power of numerous small studies, each to small to produce a reliable result.
Silicone Gel Breast Implants
This report of the 1998 Independent Review Group succinctly presents the evidence relating to the safety of silicone gel breast implants. It includes specific recommendations for their future use. The complete report can be downloaded in pdf format from this government site.
National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths
The National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) is a registered charity whose aim is to review clinical practice and identify potentially remediable factors in the practice of anaesthesia, surgery and other invasive medical procedures. The aim is to look at the quality of the delivery of care and not specifically the causation of death. This site contains the 1996/97 and 1999 reports in PDF format. The reports are also summarised and the key recommendations included. The 1999 reports specifically looks at surgery at the extremes of age - both children and the elderly.
Breast Cancer On-line
This frequently updated site contains clinical reviews, case reports, pathological images, journal reviews and conference reviews relating to the management of breast cancer.
Medic8.com
A portal of peer-reviewed medical and surgical websites.  The site is based in the United Kingdom with a significant proportion of listed sites also based in this country.  
BeST
Basic Electronic Surgical Training (BeST) is an online program providing fully-integrated training at basic surgical level.  Based on the intercollegiate syllabus of the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons, it contains 18 modules, 93 tutorials and the back to Basics guides to anatomy, physiology, pathology, investigations and surgical techniques. 
Consent
The NHS Plan identified the need for changes in the way in which patients are asked to give their consent to treatment, care or research, in order to ensure that the process becomes properly focussed on the rights of individual patients and their relatives. The importance of patient-focussed consent procedures also emerged as a key theme in Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry Report. The Department’s Reference guide to consent for examination or treatment, which summarises the current law on consent to treatment, was published in March 2001. This circular focuses on the action necessary to ensure that the principles set out in the Reference guide are reflected in day-to-day NHS practice.