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Writing an introductory handbook for trainees

Whiston Hospital, Dragon Lane, Prescot, Merseyside L35 5DR

Stephen M. Earnshaw, Senior Registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Child and Family Advisory Service, Thorn Road Clinic, Runcorn, Cheshire

^* Correspondence

‘Induction days’ are becoming more popular for trainees and are a useful way of communicating important local information to the new intake. The authors feel that a handbook given out during the induction can serve as an aide-memoire, and have provided a suggested layout which they themselves have used in preparing several such books.