Medicine

Fellows:
Dr Keith L Dorrington, DM, FRCA
Dr Stephen J Golding, FRCR
Prof Peter Jezzard
Dr Trevor Sharp
Dr Nigel Saunders

Junior Research Fellow:
Dr Thomas Smith

Lecturer:
Mr Roger Gundle, FRCS (Anatomy)

Student Profiles:
Naomi Hopwood (3rd year, Physiological Sciences)
Meera Joshi (Completed BA in 2009, Medicine)

Dr Dorrington is a respiratory physiologist and anaesthetist. Dr Sharp is a neuroscientist with a special interest in psychopharmacology. Drs Dorrington and Sharp take the main responsibility for College tutorial teaching in Medicine and Physiological Sciences. Dr Golding, a radiologist who specialises in modern scanning techniques, acts as adviser to those taking the clinical part of the medical course. Professor Jezzard is a physicist who works on medical imaging methodology, particularly the use of magnetic resonance imaging to study the healthy and diseased brain. Anatomy is taught by Mr Gundle, who is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon. Dr Saunders is a research physician who contributes to the teaching in Pathology and Immunology. Dr Smith’s clinical work is in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, and his research focuses on cardiopulmonary physiology, particularly human hypoxia physiology.

Medical admissions to Oxford are controlled by a strict quota and Univ has chosen to admit four or five undergraduates each year to the pre-clinical course.

The Oxford Medical course has a distinct emphasis in basic sciences, with much work in the second half of the undergraduate courses being based on primary scientific literature. However, we believe in making College medical teaching clinically relevant by the involvement of practising clinicians in College tutorials from the first year. The full syllabus of the Medical courses is taught in lectures, seminars and practical classes, most of which take place in the University’s Medical Sciences Teaching Centre.

College tutorials provide an opportunity to explore some topics in greater depth, discuss difficult areas informally, and give undergraduates individual help with written work and oral presentations. Students can expect between one and two College tutorials each week. Students may study Psychology as part of their finals course.

For more information, please consult the websites of the Division of Medical Sciences and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics.

See also: Biomedical Sciences and Psychology