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Contributors
                                                                           v
     About the editor
vi
Contents
Contributors v
Foreword    ix
Mr Harvey White
Preface   x
Dr Rameen Shakur
Acknowledgements xi
4. The interview     27
Professor John Stein
7. Student finance 47
Andrew Pearson and Kirsty Lloyd
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Contents
Index 113
     viii
Foreword
The criteria for student selection ore changing, as ore the methods of
teaching and learning. Even in the lost few years, the expectations of
the public and the work pattern of doctors hove changed. Anyone con-
sidering a career in medicine must be aware of these developments.
These changes and the established ways of the profession ore addressed
in the new edition, which will be invaluable to all those considering
becoming a doctor.
It is good to see that the wisdom and experience of some of the original
contributors, which has stood the test of time, is retained. There ore
welcome new chapters, such as those on the historical background to
modern medicine, student finance, academic medicine and medical
journalism, which broaden the scope and appeal of the book.
The second edition is a more than worthy successor to the first. In addition
to supplementing the study day at the Royal Society of Medicine, it will
stand alone as on essential port of informed decision making for those
considering a career in medicine.
Harvey White
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    Preface
    Numerous students have found the information in the first edition of this
    book very useful in formulating a realistic picture of a life in medicine and
    the application process involved. However, given recent changes in
    school and medical curricula, the introduction of more graduate entry
    schemes and the ongoing financial concerns facing all university students,
    it was time to update the book.
    Also, for the first time, chapters relating to academic medicine, careers
    in medical journalism, graduate entry and medical student funding have
    been included, alongside updated versions of the chapters that had
    made the book a clear favourite among students in the post. The second
    edition continues the tradition of the first in providing independent,
    concise and thorough information relating to aspects of a career in
    medicine and how to achieve this goal.
    We envisage this book to be of great value not only for candidates who
    are thinking about entering medical school, but also for current medical
    students and junior doctors alike. Please visit the website which accom-
    panies the book for more information on aspects of the book's content:
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                                                                Rameen Shokur
                                                                  Oxford, 2006
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Acknowledgements
This book has required much effort on the part of the contributors and
the RSM Press staff. I would like to thank all of the contributors for their
time and effort in producing their chapters and for researching their topics
so thoroughly. I would like to thank in particular Harvey White, who gave
me this opportunity after the great success of the first edition. A very big
thanks should also go to Peter, lan, Hannah and Laura from RSM Press for
their support and hard work during the production of the book.
Thank you also to all my colleagues at the John Radcliffe Hospital for their
support during the writing of this book, namely Dr AKM Muktadir, Dr Dalia
Wahab, Dr Hywel Jones, Dr David Holdsworth, Dr David Nasralla, Mr Ashok
Handa, all the staff of the Postgraduate Centre at the John Radcliffe, and
my consultants Professor Warrell, Dr Dwight and Professor Becker.
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Medicine: Remembering the
past, looking to the future
                                                                                1
Abhishek Joshi, Graduate Entry Medical Student University of Oxford
Dr Rameen Shakur, F2 Academic Medicine Rotation: Cardiology. Nuffield
Department of Medicine, the John Radcliffe HospitaL University of Oxford
The idea that illness is some sort of punishment from God or the gods, and
that it can be cured by prayer and ritual continues today. In fact, some
scientists are now engaged in researching whether prayer actually works
to improve people's health.
A career in medicine
           Hippocrates
           After a while, the Greeks began to think differently about the world around
           them, and also about disease and health. In particular, Hippocrates
           (460-377Bc) introduced a number of new ideas, and is now known as the
           'Father of Medicine'. Hippocrates taught
           his medical students how to recognize
           the outward features of disease, and
           encouraged them to learn which
           features suggested the severity of
           the disease. This brought about the
           ideo that doctors could make a
           diagnosis and a prognosis for a
           person based on observation, and
           helped Greek doctors to begin to
           classify illnesses.
           These theories of humours ore 'holistic', in that they treat the energies of
           the person rather than the specific disease, but people like Hippocrates
           did begin to recognize the importance of individual organs in the body,
           suggesting that they hod a role in producing the different humours.
           Hippocrates was also credited with writing the Hippocratic oath, the
           ethical code of conduct that doctors swear to follow, although a number
           of similar oaths existed before his time. Interestingly, the Hippocratic oath
           separates doctors from surgeons, as surgeons were considered unedu-
           cated servants of the doctors.
           Ayurvedic medicine
           The ideo that illness was characterized by on imbalance in the patients'
           elements was not exclusive to the Greeks.
           Early Indians practised the Ayurvedic method of medicine over 3000 years
           ago, and the practice still survives in Indio today, often allied to modern
           'biomedical' practice.
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                                  Medicine: Remembering the past, looking to the future
The Egyptians
Hippocrates' teaching remained popular in ancient Greece, and was
refined over generations. As Alexander the Great spread his influence
across the Mediterranean, his scholars took the Hippocratic model with
them. When the great library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt, the
Greek methods met with the (much older) Egyptian doctrines. This
meeting was particularly fruitful.
The crucial difference between the Greeks and the Egyptians was in their
study of anatomy. Whereas the Greeks considered the body sacred and
                                                                                3
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           The problem was that these doctors did not understand the diseases they
           were studying well enough to relate the symptoms and signs to a disease,
           and when they could, they did not know what to do about it. This meant
           that the perfectly rational idea was out-competed by the 'methodic'
           school, who were obsessed with the state of patients' pores. This school
           of doctors thought that the pores on the skin were a direct reflection of
           the patient's health, and so they suggested a number of ways in which
           a person should wash in order to maintain healthy, open pores. The theory
           was popular because doctors could see the direct results of their treat-
           ments, even if they did not actually cure any diseases.
           The Romans
           As the Roman Empire began to take its hold in the 1st century AD and the
           Greeks became poorer, many Greek doctors continued to ply their trade
           as Roman slaves. Being a doctor in Rome was seen as a socially un-
           desirable job. However, a number of doctors were successful and were
           able to buy their freedom. One of the most successful Roman doctors was
           Galen (AD 129-200), who was the son of a wealthy architect. He was never
           a slave, but instead studied at Alexandria, where he learned the
           Hippocratic theories of medicine, which he then brought to Rome. He
           developed these ideas and furthered the study of anatomy through public
           dissections of pigs and Barbary apes, which he considered to be
           anatomically similar to humans. He showed that the kidneys produced
           urine and demonstrated the importance of the spinal cord, but despite
           these useful experimental findings, Galen's effect on medicine was
           effectively to halt any real progress for over a thousand years after his
           death.
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as that it unfortunately fitted so well with the Christian ideas of the time.
This meant that Galen's theories were promoted and protected by the
Church in Europe, which ensured that his anatomical findings and theory
of medicine were not challenged for over a thousand years. For example,
people believed that the humerus bone in the arm was curved because
Galen said so, and dismissed the straight bones they saw as 'tricks of
nature'.
Galen's teachings thus survived virtually unchanged well into the 17th
century. The main change over this time was the introduction of patron
saints for each disease. These saints were petitioned for cures, in a return
to the earlier ideas and superstitions that God or spirits intervened in man's
health. For example, St Fiacre was supposed to protect the patient from
haemorrhoids. There were few practical advances - medicine had
entered the Dark Ages in Europe.
AI-Razi (865-925) and Ibn Sino (Avicenna) (980-1037) were two major
Arabic physicians, who wrote over 600 books between them. They both
studied medicine alongside philosophy, mathematics, and other sciences
and arts, and are credited with keeping the tradition of rational thought
and discovery in medicine alive. Most of their work found its way to
Europe, where it formed the basis of medical teaching.
AI-Razi lived in what is now Tehran in Iran. Despite being strongly influ-
enced by the Hippocratic way of thinking, he described the symptoms
and signs of diseases and did not try to explain them in terms of spirits or
humours. He wrote about the diseases of smallpox and measles, and was
careful to mark the differences between them. He relied on rational
thought and observation, and this helped him make his discoveries. He
also began to publish the first doubts about some of Galen's teachings.
Ibn Sino qualified as a doctor by the age of 18, and came to live in Tehran
as the court doctor to the emir (king). He wrote almost constantly, and
consolidated everything he knew about medicine (which in those days was
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