It is a daunting prospect to learn paediatrics at undergraduate level. With increasing time constraints, students can now find themselves having to learn about the myriad of paediatric conditions in just 6 weeks. It is therefore of utmost importance for textbooks to be written in a clear and concise manner. This is something that the authors obviously had in mind when writing the excellent second edition of Paediatrics at a glance.

I should probably admit now that I was already a fan of the first edition. In fact, having left medical school just over a year ago, it seems very recently that I was desperately attempting …