On the fifth episode of the Knife to Skin podcast, Mr Arjun Takhar and Mr Rahul Bhome focus on how to read a paper (aka critical appraisal of academic research). Also Mr Bhome summarizes the process of pursuing an academic career in the UK. For more information on the topics covered please visit: 1. https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/resources/ebm-tools/critical-appraisal-tools: Critical appraisal tools at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford 2. https://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/: Pubcrawler from Trinity College Dublin. Customisable alert service for Pubmed and GenBank databases. 3. https://foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/programmes/2-year-foundation-programme/academic-training/: Academic Foundation Programme. Link to information and the application for academic foundation programme posts in the UK. Worth reading if you are a final year medical student interested in applying for an academic post. 4. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/academy-programmes/integrated-academic-training.htm: NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowships for Core Trainees wishing to pursue specialist academic surgical training.

On the fourth episode of the Knife to Skin podcast, Mr Arjun Takhar and Mr Dimitrios Karavias discuss about the management of patients with gallstone disease.  For more information on gallstone disease please visit our educational website teachingtuesdays.co.uk or watch our presentation on gallstone disease available on our YouTube channel .

On the third episode of the Knife to Skin podcast, Mr Arjun Takhar walks us through his systematic approach on clinical examination for the surgical patient.

On the second episode of the Knife to Skin podcast, Mr Arjun Takhar and Professor Tim Underwood discuss about the management of patients with oesophageal cancer.

On the first episode of the Knife to Skin podcast, Mr Arjun Takhar walks us through his systematic approach on history taking for the surgical patient.