This is the most useful book a junior doctor can carry during the critical first two years after medical school. It will guide them through on-call emergencies, daily ward life and speciality attachments whilst helping them adapt to their career, get the most out of their job and choose a speciality.

Extensively revised and fully updated, this new edition of the Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme provides everything you need to excel in your first two years as a doctor. Following the latest curriculum for the Foundation Programme, and the latest career planning guidance, this handbook is the indispensible guide for all junior doctors. Now in full colour throughout, this handbook has never been easier to use, with expanded and reordered sections on prescribing and drug doses, emergencies, and clinical medicine. It includes the parts of the job rarely covered at medical school such as day-to-day life on the wards, referrals, clerking patients, procedures, and hospital paperwork, as well as providing advice on ethics, communication, and what to do when things go wrong. The handbook has practical tips on the current career system, MMC, completing your portfolio, interviews, application forms, and how to get published. With practical advice from the authors' personal experience, and key evidence-based clinical information, this is the ultimate quick-reference survival guide to the Foundation Programme.

The Oxford Handbook for the Dental Foundation and Core Training Programmes presents key information to allow dental graduates and trainees a detailed insight into the core skills and knowledge needed to optimise the educational value and opportunities offered by the training programmes. Providing practical application of the different dental disciplines, you will be given pertinent insights into your role as a trainee enabling you to focus on your professional development and excel in post. Written by generalists, trainees, and specialists who themselves have undergone training, the handbook presents a thorough and relevant guide to all aspects of the trainee's role. This brand new title in the Oxford Handbook series is an essential resource for all those about to start or currently undergoing dental training, and will enable trainees to rise to the challenges of the modern practicing dentist.

Starting Medical School can be incredibly daunting, and the transition to being a medical student can be enormously challenging. Medical School at a Glance is an accessible guide to help give you confidence and to gain a running start to your medical school training. Covering core areas such as medical training, developing effective learning strategies, understanding common principles, learning how to behave in the clinical setting and how to interact with patients and peers, this book will help to demystify the process and prepare you as you embark on your medical career. Providing an insider’s view of useful information to build a solid basic foundation for your learning, Medical School at a Glance is essential for those considering studying medicine or are in their first years of study.

This is the first book written for the UK's Foundation Program, which all newly qualified doctors will enter from September 2005. It will be the most useful book a new doctor can carry during the first two years after medical school, covering both clinical topics and non-clinical career information.

Chapter 1 Being a doctor Chapter 2 Life on the wards Chapter 3 History and examination Chapter 4 Prescribing Chapter 5 Pharmacopoeia Chapter 6 Resuscitation Chapter 7 Cardiovascular Chapter 8 Respiratory Chapter 9 Gastroenterology Chapter 10 Endocrinology Chapter 11 Neurology Chapter 12 Psychiatry Chapter 13 Fluids and renal Chapter 14 Haematology Chapter 15 Skin and eyes Chapter 16 Emergency department Chapter 17 Procedures Chapter 18 Interpreting results.

The Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme returns in a new edition, guiding medical students and newly-qualified doctors through the Foundation Programme and beyond with the most up-to-date information and clinical guidance. This new edition has been fully revised to reflect the latest clinical guidelines, as well as changes to career structures and the Foundation Programme curriculum. It includes two entirely new chapters on primary care and care at the end of life, as well as featuring updated content on healthcare-related infection control, obstetrics and gynaecology, and surgery. Distilling the expertise of two senior clinicians and the first-hand experience of two new junior authors, this pocket handbook provides guidance on all facets of starting out as a newly qualified doctor, from applying to the Foundation Programme to career progression and choosing a specialty, from interpreting results to performing practical procedures. Covering aspects that are rarely tackled in medical school, this is your ultimate survival guide.