A new addition to the Oxford Case Histories series, Obstetric Medicine provides the reader with 55 cases of different clinical presentations in obstetric medicine.

Each case is presented with a background to the subject area, a summary of the history, and examination findings, and relevant investigation results. This is followed by several questions on clinically important aspects of the case with answers and detailed discussion, particularly of the differential management options. Each topic is mapped on to both the curriculum for physicians undertaking obstetric medicine, and for obstetric trainees studying for membership exams, the Advance Training Skills Module in maternal medicine, and speciality training in maternal and fetal medicine.

Providing an ideal self-assessment tool, this new title is of interest to all doctors working in obstetrics, midwives, and students revising for exams.

Charlotte Frise, Consultant Physician in Obstetric Medicine and General Medicine, North West London Maternal Medical Network, London, UK,Krupa Bhalsod, Specialist Registrar in Acute, General and Obstetric Medicine, West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK,Rebecca Scott, Consultant Obstetric Physician, Diabetologist, and Endocrinologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK,Harry Gibson, Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a specialist interest in Obstetric Medicine, Whittington Health NHS Trust, London, UK

Charlotte Frise is lead Consultant Obstetric Physician for the North West London maternal medical network. She completed her preclinical training at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and her clinical training at the University of Oxford. Her training in general medicine was completed in the Oxford deanery and was supplemented by training in Obstetric Medicine at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London as well as Oxford. Charlotte is a Senior College Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at Keble College, Oxford. co She has written Obstetric Medicine, in the Oxford Specialist Handbooks of Obstetrics and Gynaecology series and is co-editor in chief of the journal Obstetric Medicine: the medicine of pregnancy.


Krupa Bhalsod is a specialist registrar in Acute, General and Obstetric medicine, currently working at West Middlesex Hospital in London. She completed her medical training at Imperial College London and has done all her training in general medicine in North West London. She did a fellowship in obstetric medicine at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London. She has a keen interest in education and developing physician's knowledge of obstetric medicine, and takes part in various undergraduate and postgraduate educational activities


Rebecca Scott is a Consultant Obstetric Physician, Diabetologist & Endocrinologist working at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London. She undertook her medical training at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. She received a Professional Diploma in Obstetric Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians, and was also awarded a PhD into the role of gut hormones in obesity by Imperial College London. Her research interests focus on diabetes and endocrinology in pregnancy.


Harry Gibson trained at the University of Cambridge and subsequently University College London Medical School. He has worked in and around North and East London and following completion of Obstetrics and Gynaecology training became a consultant at the Whittington Hospital in 2020. Harry has both the MRCOG and MRCP qualifications and gained further experience over a year spent working as a clinical fellow in obstetric medicine at St Thomas' Hospital. He currently organises the London Obstetric Medicine Group, a monthly forum for case discussion and learning across the region's hospitals.