#1 Foundation Programme Book

Your transition from Medical School to your first year of foundation training can be an abrupt and startling one. Many medical students with limited experience of clinical work can feel overwhelmed when faced with the challenge of patient management. However, our foundation handbook can help to alleviate your anxieties and ease your transition from student to doctor.

The Essential Clinical Handbook for the Foundation Programme is aimed at current foundation doctors and is applicable to clinical medical students in many aspects as well. It provides an invaluable companion to assist you in the day-to-day management of patients on the ward during your foundation training.

Our foundation handbook is the first to clearly outline how to gain the core clinical competencies required for successful completion of the Foundation Programme. Written by doctors who have recently completed their foundation training, it explains how to successfully manage all of the common cases that you will face in your first years as a doctor.

The Essential Clinical Handbook for the Foundation Programme:

·         Introduces the Foundation Programme and what is expected of a new doctor, particularly in light of the introduction of Modernising Medical Careers

·         Illustrates clearly the best way to manage, step-by-step, over 150 commonly encountered clinical diseases, including NICE guidelines to ensure a gold standard of clinical care is achieved

·         Describes how to successfully gain the core clinical competencies within Medicine and Surgery, including an extensive list of differentials and conditions explained

·         Explores the various radiology images you will encounter and how to interpret them

·         Tells you how to succeed in the assessment methods used including DOP’s, Mini-CEX’s and CBD’s

·         Includes practical information about clinical care and administrative aspects that most clinical medicine textbooks simply don't cover

·         Outlines how to make certain your ePortfolio is maintained properly to ensure successful completion of the Foundation Programme

·         Provides tips and advice on how to start preparing now to ensure that you are fully prepared and have the competitive edge for your CT / ST Application

The introduction of the ePortfolio as part of the Foundation Programme has paved the way for foundation doctors to take charge of their own learning and portfolio. Through following the expert guidance laid down in this handbook you will give yourself the best possible chance of progressing successfully through to CT / ST training.

With forewords by Sir Graeme Catto (former President of the GMC) and Professor Lord Ara Darzi (former Health Minister), our Essential Clinical Handbook for the Foundation Programme is the ultimate resource for helping you through your foundation training.

About the Editor

Dr Rameen Shakur is a run through London Specialist Trainee working in Cardiology at the Royal Brompton Hospital, National Heart and Lung Institute, South Kensington, London. He is also a clinical teacher in medicine for Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Dr Shakur trained at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh medical schools. He was a Churchill Fellow at Harvard University and Mayo Medical School, Rochester, USA. He is a trainee representative for the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) committee.

Readership

This book applies to foundation year 1 and 2 doctors, medical students, clinical tutors and clinical supervisors.

Foundation Clinical Handbook Testimonials

'An excellent and 'must have' companion for the foundation programme and those first steps you take as a fully qualified doctor! Unique content in terms of guidance on acheiving your foundation competencies. Also gives invaluable advice and information regarding ST applications - an important hurdle faced during foundation year 2.'

Dr PR (ST1, Paediatrics)