Why didn't anybody tell me that? Beyond the Psychiatric Textbook

This book offers guiding comments for doctors who are thinking of, or have embarked on, a training in psychiatry. It offers some general comments about how you can find a training programme (at both senior house officer and specialist registrar level) and how you can get the best out of such a training programme. It considers a number of practical matters that may be going on in your life outside work. It introduces some aspects of management skills that you will need in the modern working environment. And, it considers the political environment in which you will be working, to help you understand why certain apparent absurdities in health care are why they are. With the information in this book, you will be better equipped to deal with the challenges that occur in the course of a training in psychiatry that do not relate to the direct provision of clinical care.