Luke Austen studied medicine at Pembroke College Oxford (2012-2015) and Harris Manchester College Oxford (2015-2018). He is currently a trainee in the Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) Anaesthetics programme.

In The Bleep Test: How New Doctors Can Get Things Right, Luke explores the elusive, hidden curriculum at the transition from medical student to new doctor, combining personal experience with an array of research findings, from psychology and human biology to anthropology, business and behavioural economics.

Acknowledging that the truly complex challenges facing new doctors lie far beyond the realms of the traditional medical sciences in which they were trained, the book explains that the shift to being a doctor depends on first understanding how we think, reason and behave as someone we have been all our lives – a human amongst humans.