In this clinical case, Alex Romain is taken through the examination of a patient after GP referral for shortness of breath and tiredness by Sandeep Ghandi, from the Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent.

The case is split into 3 sections, examination, history and treatment.

To help with your diagnosis we’ve provided an ECG, an x-ray, and a spreadsheet of blood-test results.

You know those teaching sessions where you suddenly understand a subject, where everything crystallises and you start to think that maybe medicine isn’t actually all that hard? With these podcasts we aim to replicate that experience, with the added bonus that you can listen as many times as you like.

In this episode, John Rees fron Kings College London teaches Alex Romain about a young man who is short of breath.

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Final year student at UCL, Neil Graham, talks to Julian Sheather, ethics manager at the BMA; Lorraine Noble, senior lecturer in clinical skills at University College London; and Anthony Costello, director of the University College London Centre for International Health and Development at the Institute of Child Health

They discuss the ethical problems that may arise when undertaking a placement in a resource poor setting. We focus on a fictional scenario with Danny, a medical student who has got a placement in a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

This is a slideshow created by Dr David George to help medical students prepare for theatre.

This is a slideshow created by Dr David George to help medical students prepare for theatre. In an accompanying article he explains how to carry out the surgical scrub.

This is a slideshow created by Dr David George to help medical students prepare for theatre. In an accompanying article he explains how to carry out the surgical scrub.

Medical student’s spend years training to become registered doctors, but throughout that time there is always the potential for a medical emergency to occur outside the clinical setting and often without warning.

In this second student BMJ podcast we’ll hear from 3 people who have been first on scene: Benjamin Waterhouse, a medical student at Leeds University; Roger Allen, a thoracic surgeon from Brisbane Australia; and  Peter Holden, an immediate care medic who also works for the BMA.

In the first Student BMJ podcast, we’re looking at organ donation - and talk to people involved in all levels of the process. Jessie Colquhoun talks to Jacqueline Monaghan and Annabel Ferriman about their experiences, and Duncan Young explains some of the background to the science.