Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine and Oxford Assess and Progress—Emergency Medicine Pack

This pack brings together two essential texts in emergency medicine. The Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides perscriptive and precise guidelines for emergency medical practice, while Oxford Assess and Progress: Emergency Medicine contains over 250 questions covering all the core areas of the specialty.

Pawan Gupta is an emergency physician by training who is currently working as a Consultant and Clinical Director in the Emergency Medicine directorate in the Lister Hospital and Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, under East & North Hertfordshire University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also a clinical teacher for Cambridge University Medical School and is a supervisor for final year medical students in emergency medicine. He is an examiner as well as an item contributor in the College of Emergency Medicine. He is also involved in writing items for the Fitness to Practise assessments for the GMC, a Part 2 examiner and Part 1 panel member for the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB).


Dr David Sales is a general practitioner by training who has been involved in medical assessment for over 20 years, having previously been convenor of the MRCGP knowledge test. He has run item writing workshops for a number of undergraduate medical schools, medical royal colleges and internationally. For the General Medical Council currently he chairs the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board Part 1 panel and is their consultant on fitness to practise knowledge testing.



Dr Katharine Boursicot is a Reader in Medical Education and Deputy Head of the Centre for Medical and Healthcare Education at St George's, University of London. Previously she was Head of Assessment at Barts and The London, and Associate Dean for Assessment at Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine. She is consultant on assessment to several UK medical schools, Royal Medical Colleges and international institutions as well as the General Medical Council PLAB Part 2 Panel and Fitness to Practise clinical skills testing.