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SECRETS OF SUCCESS: GETTING INTO FOUNDATION TRAINING

This textbook, published in 2008, gives advice to Final Year students applying for the National Foundation Training Programme for F1 and F2 doctors. The problems with this application process over the past several years are well known to senior students, junior doctors, programme directors, postgraduate Deans, universities, the public and indeed politicians. This book is timely and is an effort to help students applying for their F1 and F2 positions. The difficulty with this book is that it will become rapidly out of date in such a changing field, but nonetheless it does give basic groundwork and advice on the completion of the application form. 
 
Quite rightly, at the beginning of their textbook, in the preface, the authors have emphasised that the examples which they have provided in their text must not be copied nor modified as this would be plagiarism, which is looked upon very seriously. 
 
While the textbook was published in 2008, in this rapidly changing field, it is probably time for a new edition or at least a reprint with some changes. The book is up-to-date at the time of publication, including giving an overview of the Tooke Inquiry, a guide to the United Kingdom Medical Schools and the number of associated training positions, (Page 9). This is already dated and the next edition will require revision. There then follows a brief guide to United Kingdom Foundation Schools, with the Hospital Trusts associated, and the appropriate contact numbers. Again, in a changing field, these first few chapters will require revision over the next year or two. Thereafter, there is some information on the application process, which is relatively generic and useful. The following chapters relate to likely questions on the application form and how to complete them to maximise the chance of a successful application. While, of course, the questions change year by year, nonetheless many of the questions have a generic core. These chapters are very useful indeed, from such basic advice as reading the question repeatedly, while writing one's answer, to providing samples of topics such as coping under pressure, team working, prioritisation, the patient as a focus of care and professional integrity. 
 
Overall this is a useful little book which can be recommended to senior students preparing for this all-important application. I would, however, finish this review by emphasising the caveat already mentioned by the authors, that on no account should students be tempted to plagiarise directly, or in a modified form, any of the examples provided in this text.