• The best-selling guide to both the clinical and non-clinical elements of surviving your first two years as a doctor
• Completely updated and revised to reflect the recent changes to junior doctor training
• Covers many of the administrative tasks that aren't taught at medical school, plus practical advice on managing finances and career development
• Presents clinical material grouped by system, rather than disease, for ease of reference when facing patients, plus step-by-step instructions for the treatment of emergencies

New to this edition

• Includes a clear description of the new career pattern and practical advice on how to cope with the applications and interviews
• Thoroughly updated with the latest clinical guidelines and practices
• Features new sections on weight loss, lumps, trauma and prescribing, and an enhanced section on choosing a specialty

Readership: Foundation Programme doctors, final year medical students, overseas doctors, doctors restarting after a career break, nurses, paramedics.

Nathalie Hurley, F2 Paediatrics, East Cheshire NHS Trust, UK, James Dawson, Anaesthetic Registrar, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, Stephan Sanders, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University Medical School, USA, and Simon Eccles, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Homerton Hospital, London, UK

After graduating from Sussex in Biochemistry with Neurobiology, James found that research was not his bag and embarked upon a medical degree in Leicester. It was during his undergraduate medical training that James became involved with publishing after contacting a publisher after being frustrated at the number of mistakes in one of his physiology books. During his final year he was asked to write his first book on undergraduate pharmacology. Having been exposed to many teachers and numerous textbooks, both good and bad, James appreciates that learning can be difficult and frustrating, and endeavours to simplify education at any opportunity. James had a broad post-graduate education and initially trained towards a career in Emergency Medicine, though after passing these membership examinations decided he wanted to be an anaesthetist. James is now happily based in theatres, being an active participant and critic in that field

Simon Eccles is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Homerton Hospital in Hackney, North East London. He was appointed as Clinical Director for NHS Connecting for Health in July 2007, having started as the joint National Clinical Lead for Hospital Doctors at the end of 2004. He is a past-Chairman of the Junior Doctors Committee of the BMA. In October 2004, he took a year out of clinical work to allow him to work on the 'Hospital at Night' project as the medical advisor to the Department of Health. He continues to work as a medical advisor to NHS National Workforce Projects.

Nathalie qualified from the University of Manchester in 2006 and entered the Foundation Programme in only its second established year. Her first two years as a doctor are being spent training at Macclesfield District General Hospital before she plans to embark on a career in general practice with a special interest in palliative care. The Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme is Nathalie's first experience with medical writing. She was very keen to get involved as she managed to pass her finals largely thanks to the Oxford Handbook series and is still frequently one of those doctors who stands there thinking 'What on earth do I do now?'.

"The real gems in this book are in the clinical presentations section, where management is arranged according to presenting complaint rather than by condition...a book...pitched at the right level for a junior doctor." - British Journal of Hospital Medicine

1: Starting as an F1
2: Your career
3: Communication
4: Ethics
5: When things go wrong
6: Boring but important stuff
7: Life on the wards
8: Prescribing
9: Clinical presentations
10: Specialties
11: Procedures
12: Interpreting results
13: Appendices