Single user version, network versions available. Oxford University Press. (Available from Healthworks Ltd, 30–38 Dock Street, Leeds LS10 1JF; tel: 0113 234 6624, fax: 0113 242 7782, e-mail: sales@d-access.demon.co.uk; the Oxford Clinical Mentor Plus is the new updated and expanded edition of the Oxford Clinical Mentor and costs £150 plus VAT.)

Increasingly well known medical texts are being republished as software for use on computers. These may have advantages over print and paper for the computer literate user particularly for the facility to search text rapidly.

The Oxford Clinical Mentor is described as an “electronic medical knowledge support system”. More precisely it consists of the texts of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine and the Oxford Handbook …