• New edition incorporating full details of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the Tooke Report changes
• Provides invaluable synopses of over 80 career paths in medicine, including getting in, and getting on
• For each specialty, practical advice is offered on the personal qualities needed, level of competition, salaries available, stress levels, and pros and cons
• Includes contributions from experts from a wide range of medical specialties offering information on the medical paths they have chosen, and what it's like to work in each area
• Features user-friendly job summary tables which offer at-a-glance comparisons to be made between different jobs
• Lists contact addresses for further information

New to this edition

• The main career chapters have all been rewritten in a standardised format to make them easier to compare and more consistent
• New section describing an average day in the life of that specialist
• Careers covered has been expanded by about 20% to cover newer specialities and more subspecialties
• The text has been completely rewritten to reflect the latest changes in medical careers following Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the Tooke report
• Foundation Programme essentials and application · Specialty Training essentials and application · CVs, interviews, how to succeed in a medical career, list of specialties in order of competitiveness · Career pathway for every Specialty Training option (eg surgery, paediatrics) · Alternative career pathways (eg academia, armed forces, overseas)

Readership: Foundation programme trainees (deciding what to specialise in), medical students and people thinking of going into medicine, together with all those responsible for advising them.

Simon Eccles, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Homerton Hospital, London, UK, and Stephan Sanders, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University Medical School, USA

"...breaks down everything you need to know about geting into UK specialties and the training pathways required by the MMC...everything is summarized, e.g. specialty reviews, how to get a job...one of the few books out there that gives accurate and helpful advice...a good investment in your entire future." - QMM Magazine

Career routes - the 'usual' route
1: Career overview
2: Foundation programme
3: Specialty training
4: Membership exams
5: General practitioner
6: Consultant
Career routes - alternative routes
7: Staff and associate specialist grade
8: Academic career
9: Armed forces career
10: 'Off the beaten track' career
11: Overseas career
12: Leaving clinical medicine
Specialty overviews
13: Acute care common stem overview
14: Anaesthetics overview
15: General practice overview
16: Internal medicine overview
17: Obstetrics and gynaecology overview
18: Paediatrics overview
19: Pathology overview
20: Psychiatry overview
21: Public health overview
22: Radiology overview
23: Surgery overview - surgery in general
24: Surgery overview - oral and maxillofacial surgery
25: Surgery overview - neurology
26: Surgery overview - ophthalmology
How to get a job
27: Choosing a career
28: Finding jobs
29: Competition for ST1/CT1 applications
30: Competition for ST3/ST4 applications
31: Staying competitive
32: Surviving the application system
33: Curriculum Vitas (CV)
34: Interviews
35: What happens if you don't get a job?
36: Taking time out
37: Working abroad
38: Applying from overseas
39: Doctors' pay
40: Flexible training
The organisation of medical careers
41: Postgraduate training - MMC
42: Postgraduate training - Tooke and the future
43: Switching specialist training pathways
44: Overseeing education
45: Alternative routes (articles 14 and 11)
46: Discrimination
47: Women in medicine
Career chapters
48: Academic GP
49: Academic medicine
50: Acupuncture
51: Acute medicine
52: Anaesthesia
53: Army medicine
54: Audiovestibular medicine
55: Breast and oncoplastic surgery
56: Cardiology
57: Cardiothoracic surgery
58: Chemical pathology
59: Civil service medicine
60: Clinical genetics
61: Clinical oncology
62: Clinical pharmacology
63: Community paediatrics
64: Dermatology
65: Ear, nose and throat (Otolaryngology)
66: Elderly medicine
67: Emergency medicine
68: Endocrinology and diabetes
69: Expedition medicine
70: Forensic medical examiner
71: Forensic pathology
72: Forensic psychiatry
73: Gastroenterology
74: General practice
75: General surgery (colorectal surgery)
76: Genitourinary medicine
77: GP in a rural setting
78: GP with a special interest
79: Gynaecological oncology
80: Gynaecology
81: Haematology
82: Hand surgery
83: Histopathology
84: Homeopathic medicine
85: Immunology
86: Infectious diseases and tropical medicine
87: Intensive care
88: Journalism and medical writing
89: Locuming
90: Maternal and fetal medicine
91: Maxillofacial surgery
92: Medical defence organisations
93: Medical education
94: Medical entrepreneur
95: Medical ethics
96: Medical law
97: Medical management consulting
98: Medical manager
99: Medical microbiology
100: Medical oncology
101: Medical politics
102: Merlin
103: Metabolic medicine
104: Neonatology
105: Neurology
106: Neurosurgery
107: Nuclear medicine
108: Obstetrics
109: Occupational medicine
110: Ophthalmology
111: Orthopaedic surgery
112: Overseas aid
113: Paediatric surgery
114: Paediatrics
115: Pain management
116: Palliative medicine
117: Pharmaceutical physician
118: Plastic and reconstructive surgery
119: Pre-hospital medicine
120: Prison medicine
121: Psychiatry - child and adolescent
122: Psychiatry - general adult
123: Psychiatry - old age
124: Psychiatry of learning disability
125: Psychotherapy
126: Public health
127: Radiology - diagnostic
128: Radiology - interventional
129: Renal medicine
130: Reproductive medicine
131: Respiratory medicine
132: Rheumatology
133: Royal Air Force medicine
134: Royal Navy medicine
135: Sexual and reproductive health
136: Ship's doctor
137: Spinal surgery
138: Sports and exercise medicine
139: Transfusion medicine
140: Transplantation surgery
141: Trauma surgery
142: Urogynaecology
143: Urology
144: Vascular surgery
145: Virology
146: Voluntary service overseas