Tips For New Doctors

Tips For New Doctors is the perfect companion for a junior doctor, containing guides to common ward and on-call tasks, links to professional guidelines and information and normal values for blood tests and common blood panels.

This version contains:

1) How To Guides:
* Requesting Radiological Investigations
* How To Discuss with the Microbiologists
* Talking to the Medical Registrar
* Referring to Specialties from A&E
* Discussing Urgent Scans with the Radiologist
* How To Be On-Call
* Mastering the E-Portfolio
* Breaking Bad News
* Handovers
* Teach Medical Students
* Prepare and EHCP


2) Links to 15 commonly used online guidelines - including NICE Head Injury Guidelines, IV Fluid Guidelines and Resuscitation Algorithms.

3) Normal values for common blood tests - including blood counts, liver & renal function tests, arterial blood gases

4) Recommended tests for 6 blood test "screens" or "panels".

Produced by the guys over at Medisense (www.medisense.org.uk) - improving the transition from medical student to junior doctor through new technologies.