Who we are

In 2016, a  by the Social Mobility Commission revealed that only 4% of doctors were from working-class backgrounds. Coupled with barriers such as high entry requirements, expensive tuition fees, extensive study commitments, costly registration and Royal College fees, and the necessity for additional paid study aids, achieving wider participation in the medical field remains significantly challenging.

I’m Ishraq Choudhury (or Ish). Throughout medical school, I wished for a centralised resource encompassing all the materials needed for navigating medical education, without having to buy various books and revision materials. In my third year, I started compiling an extensive document with comprehensive notes on each clinical specialty, incorporating OSCE materials including history-taking, differential diagnoses, and communication skills. One day, while sharing these notes with friends, one of them jokingly dubbed it ‘The Medical Cookbook’ thus giving birth to its existence.

Now my friends and I are dedicated to developing this site to share our notes, openly, entirely free of charge. Special thanks go to some of my closest friends, including Shahana Farook (for illustrations and content creation) and Hannah Conway (for designing the site’s logo and branding).

Although our platform is still evolving, we consistently add new content. Our current plans include expanding our OSCE notes and incorporating new practice stations.

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What makes us different?

While many revision materials exist, we won’t tell you that ours will be the one that will get you through medical school and beyond. However, we hope that we can help contribute to improving the accessibility of medical education for all and that our revision materials prove beneficial to future medical students, as they have been for me.

Our notes focus on offering practical guidance on managing various clinical scenarios, including notes on different presentations, guides on focused history taking, physical examinations, choosing investigations, and exploring differential diagnoses, such as our Chest Pain page. This comprehensive approach provides learning materials that guide users through clinical scenarios from their first presentation to their finish, intending to develop diagnostic reasoning and clinical practice.

Moreover, our notes provide concise and digestible summaries of the pathophysiology of each condition, along with explaining the rationale behind choosing specific tests or treatments over others.

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We’d love to hear from you on what you think about our site’s content, and how we can further improve. Let us know your thoughts here.

The A-Level Cookbook

I am also an A-Level tutor with a parallel project titled ‘The A-Level Cookbook’, providing free tutorials on past papers aimed at A-Level Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Maths. Explore our content here: https://www.youtube.com/@the-a-level-cookbook.