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.