Surgical Management (SurgMan) is a free family of companion apps — one per surgical specialty, plus WardMan for the complications that cross every specialty and SelfHelpMan for the person behind the doctor — putting the guidance you need on shift, and the support you need off it, in one place, in seconds.
Add the one for your current rotation to your home screen — there's no need to install them all.
12 specialties, plus WardMan for ward-wide complications and SelfHelpMan for your own wellbeing — each its own free, standalone app
Choose your specialty (or WardMan / SelfHelpMan) companion app, below
Install it as an app on your home screen
If you've ever been on call and needed the NICE threshold for referring a suspected testicular torsion, or what GIRFT actually recommends for handling a neck-of-femur fracture, you'll know the guidance exists — somewhere. It's just scattered across a dozen PDFs, three different trust intranets, and whatever your registrar happens to remember from exam revision. None of that is much use to you at 3am with a bleep going off.
SurgMan distils it down. Each app takes one specialty and pulls together everything an SHO actually reaches for on a shift: the presentations you'll see most often and how to work them up or refer them, structured clerking proformas for common admissions, the bedside procedures and classification systems you're expected to know, and a clear signpost to the real NICE, GIRFT, and national society guidance behind each of them — so you're never more than a tap away from the source.
SelfHelpMan is the one exception to that shape, deliberately. The same environment this family is built to help you navigate clinically can take a toll of its own — error and its aftermath, burnout, moral injury, imposter syndrome — so instead of presentations and procedures, it signposts real, confidential UK support services and the national guidance behind them.
The common calls for that specialty, with how to work each one up and where it needs to go next — ward, registrar, or theatre.
Structured clerking proformas, step-by-step bedside procedures, and the classification systems you're expected to know cold.
NICE, GIRFT, and the relevant national specialty society, condensed and cited — so you can always trace it back to the source.
Key operative procedures for the specialty — the real indication for surgery, and the risks worth walking a patient through, ordered from common to rare.
Each app above installs to your home screen separately, so it opens full-screen with its own icon — exactly like an app from the store. It takes about ten seconds.
Each app is a separate install, so your home screen only fills up with the ones you actually use.
Spotted something out of date, or a specialty missing something it needs? Tell us — this is built to keep improving with the people actually using it on shift.
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