Professor P. Ronan O'Connell, BA MD FRCSI FRCSGlasg FRCSEd FRCSEng (Hon) FCSHK(Hon) - President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; President, European Surgical Association; Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Professor O'Connell has served as an editor of the British Journal of Surgery and associate editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. He has been editor in chief for the European Surgical Association and joint editor of Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery for the 25th, 26th 27th and now 28th editions, having contributed chapters to the 23rd and 24th editions. Apart from his editing, Prof O'Connell is widely published in the areas of IBD, colorectal cancer and pelvic floor physiology. He is a Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and holds ad hominum fellowships of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Royal Colleges. He is a past President of the European Society of Coloproctology and honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Professor Andrew W. McCaskie, MMus MD FRCS FRCSENG (Tr and Orth) - Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery; University of Cambridge, Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Professor Andrew McCaskie is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge. He trained in Leeds, Leicester and Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery until moving to Cambridge in 2013. His clinical interest is the lower limb, and particularly the treatment of osteoarthritis, seeking to develop repair and regenerative therapies at early stages of disease. He is the Director of the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre which brings together UK clinicians, engineers and biologists to develop stem and stromal cell therapy for early osteoarthritis.

He has been the President of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, member of the Council of Management of The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, and member of Council of the British Orthopaedic Association. He is currently the Director of the Academic Foundation Programme in Cambridge and is widely published, including papers in The Lancet and Nature Genetics.

Professor Robert D Sayers, MBChB(Hons) MD AFHEA FRCSEng - George Davies Chair of Vascular Surgery, University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK

Member of the Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Royal College of Surgeons Surgical Tutor, Leicester Royal Infirmary. Member of the Critical Care Steering Group, Royal College of Surgeons of England.

PART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES . Metabolic response to injury. Shock, haemorrhage and transfusion. Wound healing and tissue repair. Tissue engineering and regenerative Therapies. Surgical infection. Tropical infections and infestations. Basic surgical skills. Diagnostic imaging. Gastrointestinal endoscopy. Principles of minimal access surgery. Principles of oncology. Surgical audit and research. Ethics and law in surgical practice. Human factors, patient safety and quality improvement. Global Health and surgery. PART TWO: GENERAL PAEDIATRICS. Paediatric surgery.Neonatal Surgery. Trauma in children. Paediatric Urology. PART THREE: PERIOPERATIVE CARE Pre-operative care including the high-risk patient. Day case surgery. Anaesthesia and pain relief. Post-operative care including perioperative optimisation.Nutrition and fluid therapy PART FOUR: TRAUMA Introduction to trauma. Early assessment and management of sever trauma. Traumatic brain injury. Torso and pelvic trauma. The neck and spine. Maxillofacial trauma. Extremity trauma. Disaster surgery. Conflict Surgery. PART FIVE: ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDICS History taking and clinical examination in musculoskeletal disease. Sports medicine and sports injuries. The spine. The upper limb. The hip. The knee. The foot and ankle. Musculoskeletal tumours. Infection of the bones and joints. Paediatric orthopaedics PART SIX: SKIN, PLASTIC and RECONSTRUCTIVE Skin and subcutaneous tissue. Burns. Plastic and reconstructive surgery PART SEVEN: HEAD AND NECK Cranial Neurosurgery. The eye and orbit. Developmental abnormalities of the face mouth and jaws: cleft lip & palate. The ear, nose and sinuses. The pharynx, larynx and neck. Oral cavity cancer. Disorders of the salivary glands PART EIGHT: ENDOCRINE and BREAST. The thyroid gland. The parathyroid glands.The adrenal glands and other abdominal endocrine disorders. The breast. PART NINE: CARDIOTHORACIC Cardiac surgery. The thorax PART TEN: VASCULAR Arterial disorders. Venous disorders.Lymphatic Disorders. PART ELEVEN: ABDOMINAL History and examination of the abdomen. The abdominal wall, hernia and umbilicus. The peritoneum, mesentery, greater omentum and retroperitoneal space. The oesophagus. The stomach and duodenum. Bariatric and metabolic surgery. The liver. The spleen. The gall bladder and bile ducts. The pancreas. Functional disorders of the intestine. The small intestines. Inflammatory bowel disease. The vermiform appendix. The large intestine. Intestinal obstruction. The rectum. The anus and anal canal. PART TWELVE: GENITOURINARY Urinary symptoms and investigations. The kidney and ureter. The urinary bladder. The prostate and seminal vesicles. The urethra and penis. The testis and scrotum. Gynaecology. PART THIRTEEN: TRANSPLANTATION Kidney transplantation and the principles of transplantation. Liver transplantation. Pancreas transplantation. Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation.