Core texts and resources for major areas in medicine with an emphasis on full-text online materials.
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Anesthesiology
Barash: Clinical anesthesia, 6th ed.Miller: Miller's Anesthesia, 7th ed.
Morgan: Clinical anesthesiology, 4th ed.
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Dermatology
Elder: Lever's histopathology of the skin, 9th ed.Fitzpatrick: Fitzpatrick's color atlas and synopsis of clinical dermatology, 5th ed.
Habif: Clinical Dermatology: a color guide to diagnosis and therapy, 4th ed.
Sterry: Dermatology
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Family Medicine
Ferri: Ferri's Clinical Advisor: instant diagnosis and treatment, 2009 ed.Noble: Textbook of primary care medicine, 3rd ed.
Rakel: Textbook of family practice, 6th ed.
South-Paul: Current diagnosis & treatment in family medicine
Taylor: Family medicine: principles and practice, 6th ed.
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Medical Ethics
Jonsen: Clinical ethics : a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine, 6th ed.AMA: Code of medical ethics : current opinions with annotations American Medical Association, 2008-2009 ed. PRINT ONLY
Lo: Resolving ethical dilemmas: a guide for clinicians, 4th ed. PRINT ONLY
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Medicine
ACP medicine: a publication of the American College of PhysiciansBickley: Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking, 10th ed. PRINT ONLY
Cecil: Cecil textbook of medicine, 23rd ed.
DeGowin: DeGowin's diagnostic examination, 9th ed.
Delmar's guide to laboratory and diagnostic tests.
Domino: Griffith's 5-minute clinical consult
Ferri: Ferri's clinical advisor: instant diagnosis and treatment, 10th ed.
Ferri: Practical guide to the care of the medical patient, 7th ed.
Harrison: Harrison's Principles of internal medicine, 17th ed.
Seidel: Mosby's guide to physical examination, 6th ed.
Wallach: Interpretation of diagnostic tests, 8th ed.
See also: AccessEmergency Medicine | AccessMedicine
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Neurology
Adam & Victor's principles of neurology, 8th ed.Aminoff: Clinical neurology, 6th ed.
Duus' topical diagnosis in neurology, 4th ed.
Goetz: Textbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd ed.
Rohkamm: Color atlas of neurology
Tsementzis: Differential diagnosis in neurology and neurosurgery
Waxman: Clinical neuroanatomy, 25th ed.
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Neurosurgery
Tsementzis: Differential diagnosis in neurology and neurosurgeryWaxman: Clinical neuroanatomy, 25th ed.
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OB/GYN
Danforth's Obstetrics and gynecology, 9th ed.DeCherney: Current diagnosis and treatment : obstetrics & gynecology, 10th ed.
Hacker: Essentials of obstetrics and gynecology, 4th ed. PRINT ONLY
Gabbe: Obstetrics: normal & problem pregnancies, 4th ed.
Stenchever: Comprehensive gynecology, 4th ed. PRINT ONLY
Te Linde's operative gynecology, 10th ed.
Williams obstetrics, 22nd ed.
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Ophthalmology
Yanoff: Ophthalmology, 2nd ed.Schlote: Pocket atlas of ophthalmology
Vaughan & Asbury's general ophthalmology, 17th ed.
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Orthopedics
Browner: Skeletal trauma: basic science, management, and reconstruction, 3rd ed.Campbell's operative orthopaedics, 11th ed.
DeLee & Drez's orthopaedic sports medicine: principles and practice, 2nd ed.
Dutton: Orthopaedic examination, evaluation, and intervention
Elstrom: Handbook of fractures, 3rd ed.
Green: Skeletal Trauma in Children, 3rd ed.
Simon: Emergency orthopedics: the extremities, 5th ed.
Skinner: Current diagnosis & treatment in orthopedics
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Otorhinolaryngology
Bailey: Head & neck surgery--otolaryngology, 4th ed.Bull: Color atlas of ENT diagnosis, 4th ed.
Cummings Otolaryngology--head & neck surgery, 4th ed.
Lalwani: Current diagnosis & treatment in otolaryngology: head & neck surgery
Menner: A pocket guide to the ear
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Pathology
Chandrasoma: Concise Patholgy, 3rd ed.Henry's clinical diagnosis and management by laboratory methods, 21st ed.
Lever's histopathology of the skin, 9th ed.
Martin: Primer on MR imaging of the abdomen and pelvis
Riede: Color Atlas of Pathology
Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease, 8th ed.
Soames: Oral pathology, 4th ed.
Sternberg's diagnostic surgical pathology, 4th ed.
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Pediatrics
The Harriet Lane handbook : a manual for pediatric house officers, 18th ed.Nelson textbook of pediatrics, 18th ed.
Gomella: Neonatology: management, procedures, on-call problems, diseases, and drugs, 5th ed.
Green: Skeletal Trauma in Children, 3rd ed.
Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children, 11th ed.
Oski's pediatrics : principles and practice, 4th ed.
Rudolph's Pediatrics, 21st ed.
Strange: Pediatric emergency medicine
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Psychiatry
The American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of clinical psychiatry, 5th ed.Ebert: Current diagnosis & treatment in psychiatry
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR, 4th ed.
Goldman: Review of general psychiatry, 5th ed.
Gabbard: Treatments of psychiatric disorders, 3rd ed.
Moore: Handbook of medical psychiatry, 2nd ed.
See also: PsychiatryOnline
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Radiology
Chen: Basic radiologyEastman: Getting started in clinical radiology : from image to diagnosis
Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging, 5th ed.
Mettler: Essentials of radiology, 2nd ed.
Möller: MRI parameters and positioning
Möller: Normal findings in CT and MRI
Möller: Pocket atlas of radiographic anatomy, 2nd ed.
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Surgery
ACS surgery : principles & practiceGreenfield's Surgery: scientific principles and practice, 4th ed.
Sabiston textbook of surgery: the biological basis of modern surgical practice, 18th ed.
Schwartz's principles of surgery, 8th ed.
Way: Current surgical diagnosis & treatment, 12th ed.
See also: AccessSurgery
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Urology
Siroky: Handbook of urology: diagnosis & therapy, 3rd ed.Smith's General urology, 17th ed.
Wein: Campbell-Walsh Urology, 9th ed.
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Medical databases
Cochrane Library - evidence-based medicine and systematic reviewsDynamed - point-of-care reference resource, PDA
EMBASE.com - MEDLINE and pharmacological information
Images.MD - medical images
MicroMedex - drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, alternative medicine, PDA
PubMed - journal articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences
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Internet Resources
FREIDA: Fellowship & Residency Electronic Interactive DatabaseSearch for residency and fellowships
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
Publishing and author information for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences.
Electronic Resources at a Glance - Medicine (pdf)
A 'database cheat sheet' for Medicine
ExamMaster
Medical exam preparation and medical subject review for USMLE & board certification
PubMed Tutorial
From the National Library of Medicine