Undergraduate medical education is continuously changing to meet the requirements for the training of future medical practitioners. Over the last few years the concept of perioperative medicine has evolved encompassing the preoperative assessment and optimisation of patients, the intraoperative and postoperative management of these patients and importantly the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of the critically ill patient. The relevance of this to undergraduate medical students is undeniable and a number of medical schools have now incorporated a module of Perioperative Medicine into their curricula for medical students
