chapter 1. Academic viva / Elizabeth Ball, Tjun Tang and Stewart Walsh -- chapter 2. Critical care / Jithesh Appukutty, Elizabeth Ball, John Davidson, Vinodkumar Singh, Nicole Keong, Tjun Tang and Stewart Walsh -- chapter 3. Emergency surgery / Elizabeth Ball, Nicole Keong, Dermot O'Riordan, C J Shukla, Tjun Tang, Colin Walsh and Stewart Walsh -- chapter 4. General surgery / Elizabeth Ball, Pankaj Mishra, Dermot O'Riordan, C J Shukla, Tjun Tang, Thomas Tsang, Colin Walsh and Stewart Walsh -- chapter 5. Breast surgery / Elizabeth Ball, Amy E.E. Burger and Sue K. Down -- chapter 6. Colorectal surgery / Edward Courtney, Gillian Tierney and Samson Tou -- chapter 7. Endocrine surgery / Elizabeth Ball and Ashish Lal -- chapter 8. HPB surgery / Saurabh Jamdar, Jeffrey Lordan, Dermot O'Riordan and Manel Riera -- chapter 9. Transplant surgery / Zia Moinuddin, Rajesh Sivaprakasam and David van Dellen -- chapter 10. Upper GI surgery / Naheed Farooq, Dermot O'Riordan, Dimitri Pournaras, Manel Riera and Andy Tsang -- chapter 11. Vascular surgery / Tjun Tang, Janice Tsui, Stewart Walsh and Michael Wu.