If you want to work in the NHS, whether that be a doctor, nurse, physio, midwife, immunogeneticist & histocompatabilty scientist… you need to know what to do at school, which courses to study and which grades to get.
This video explains all! It uses two main websites:
Check out Tom's TEDx talk from the Norwich TEDx event. You'll get to see inside his body and discover some amazing medical careers.... oh and see what Tom did with an ultrasound in the bathroom!
Getting work experience in a medical setting can be tricky at any time, never mind during a pandemic! Check out Tom's tips on what you can do instead. It will also make you look awesome on your personal statement and during any interviews!
Welcome to Medical Mavericks TV!
Bite sized science bits to help your brain grow!
Every Wednesday we release a new episode that covers everything totally awesome about science and the human body. Check out the episodes so far below.
Have you heard of Sports Therapy? It is a fab career that is VERY different to Physiotherapy. We interviewed Jo, an amazing Sports Therapist that has worked in all sorts of different sports. She tells us she loves nothing more than seeing a limb pointing in the wrong direction!
Do you crack your knuckles? If so, you'll love what we have here for you. We have used our ultrasound machine to scan the knuckle joint in Lizzie's had as she cracks the joint to see what happens! It is very cool indeed!
This sounds weird I know, but we use a drug for medicinal purposes that was previously used to kill rats! In fact the chemical in this drug was found accidently when cows started to mysteriously die in America! The drug we are talking about is Warfarin! Watch this 1st episode of 4 on Warfarin, taken from The Medical Mavericks Academy, where Tom explains more.
Tom meets Simon, a real paramedic who tells us how he got into this role and the options available to you right now! This video is taken from the Medical Mavericks Academy and is one of 4 videos with Simon.
Using a Pulse Doppler, Tom shows you what your arteries and veins sound like!
Discover how Aspirin has it's therapeutic effects to help treat pain and stop our blood from clotting.
In this episode you'll discover why we have to take paracetamol in certain doses and at certain time intervals! It's all to do with how your body processes the drug to remove it from our system... in fact we actually make a toxin from Paracetamol that can be deadly! Watch to find out more!
Using our ultrasound machine, we take a look at Beatrice's growth plates in her radius, ulna and tibia! You can actually see where your bones are growing from!
In this weeks episode Tom takes a look at the MagStim, a special device that uses electromagnetism to treat depression, PTSD and even anorexia. It is a stimulating episode!!!
Check out Tom's TEDx talk from the Norwich TEDx event. You'll get to see inside his body and discover some amazing medical careers.... oh and see what Tom did with an ultrasound in the bathroom!
In this week’s episode you can meet Tom’s new baby… but all is not what is expected!
In this week’s episode you can see how Tom has some weird genetics going on with his jugular… making him the perfect snack for Dracula!
With special guest appearances from Gomez & Wednesday Addams! (please excuse the New York / Blackcountry accent!!!)
If you want to work in the NHS, whether that be a doctor, nurse, physio, midwife, immunogeneticist & histocompatabilty scientist… you need to know what to do at school, which courses to study and which grades to get.
This video explains all! It uses two main websites:
www.healthcareers.nhs.uk and www.ucas.ac.uk
It may take a couple of minutes to download into your download folder!
This piece of kit was TOTES AMAZE!!
Worth £20,000, it can shine Near Infra-Red light though you skull to measure how much oxygen is in your blood when it flows through your brain!!!
Check out the new addition to the Medical Mavericks Family….
Feel free to share! Baby Wazza isn’t shy!!!
At a recent careers event, we were on a stand next to surgeon and he had a series of surgical plates and nails used to fix and repair bones and joints. Check out some of this amazing engineering and how the design helps secure the screws in place and ensures they don’t move when in place!
Check out our useful little careers tool you can use in your school called The Switcher. You might remember these from your own school days. Some people call them fortune tellers or chatter boxes. We use it to show students some of the really cool careers you can go into in the NHS! Check out the video to see what it is all about and how to get your hands on them!
Yep – you read that right! This week’s episode looks at how Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentary Army used Germ Warfare in battles with King Charles II’s army in the mid 1600s. You can also find out where some of the most common sayings in the English language comes from…including frog in your throat, power to the elbow, square meal and many more. Check it out!
OK, I don’t even begin to explain (understand!) the physics involved here… but we can not see infrared but we can detect it with special cameras…. including your mobile phone! Check out this mini Physics demo you can try at home with a mobile phone and TV remote.
Medical Engineering isn’t all about prosthetics or designing huge machines. Sometimes its about coming up with unique and memorable ways to teach subjects such as anatomy. Check out How Aston University have designed a brilliant teaching tool for anatomy!
This is probably THE best episode of MMTV so far! We take a look at how a simple $150 device that wraps around your arm can be used to control the movement of a prosthetic limb…. and your netflix….. and your computer! Check it out to find out more.
Tom scans his heart with an ultrasound machine and captures something very rare! Loads of basic physiology and anatomy crammed into this 2minute video… make sure you watch until the very end!
Check out the inside of these twin’s eyes and see if you agree with us that they look the same! The pictures were taken on our Ophthalmoscope that attaches to an iPhone!
Check out what The Wath Comprehensive have been getting up to in their classrooms to inspire & engage their students in science and other subjects. We look at their Fact Signs on their doors, an interactive periodic table, Science words of the week and a careers display for 6th formers. Check it out for some inspiration!
This one is from the archives! Tom filmed this great demo of what happens to your alveoli when you have emphysema a few year ago, but we love the use of kids toys to explain the science! All in under 2minutes as well! Check it out!
In this weeks episode we look at the basics of an ECG as well as some arrhythmias that can occur, including Ventricular Fibrillation and Tachycardia…. Look out for Tom’s make shift de-fibrillator!!!
In this short episode of MMTV we take a look at the humerus bone of a 9 year old girl we saw in one of our workshops. She had fallen off her trampoline a couple of weeks previous and broken her humerus bone. Can we see the break using our ultrasound machine… check out this weeks episode to find out!
In the name of science, Tom eats a whole pack of jelly babies to see what happens to his blood sugars over the following hours…. it doesn’t end well!
Using an ultrasound machine, Tom takes a quick look at his liver and gets to see blood vessels, ducts and structures of this amazing organ.
A brief overview of how radiation messes with your DNA and how this will kill you. Oh, and Tom is a radiation protection suit.
Today’s episode looks at how your brain is wired to have different regions and different functions. We look at Prof Steve Peters’ book The Chimp Paradox. Can you control the chimp in your brain?
In this week's episode we look at work experience and more specifically, what to do if you can't get any! It isn't the end of the world and there is something you can do about it! It will also make you look amazing on your personal statement and in an interview! Check it out!
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