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LSUHSC Libraries Resource Guide - Core Materials for Medicine

Core texts and resources for major areas in medicine with an emphasis on online textbooks.

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Anesthesiology Dermatology Family Medicine Medical Ethics
Medicine Neurology Neurosurgery OB/GYN
Ophthalmology Orthopedics Otorhinolaryngology Pathology
Pediatrics Psychiatry Radiology Surgery
Urology Medical Databases Internet Resources Exam Prep

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, 6th ed.
Habif: Clinical Dermatology: a color guide to diagnosis and therapy, 5th ed.
Sterry: Thieme Clinical Companion Dermatology
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Family Medicine

Current diagnosis & treatment in family medicine, 3rd ed.
Ferri: Ferri's clinical advisor 2012: instant diagnosis and treatment.
Rakel: Textbook of family medicine, 8th ed.
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, 2010-2011 ed. PRINT ONLY
Lo: Resolving ethical dilemmas: a guide for clinicians, 4th ed.
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Medicine

ACP medicine: a publication of the American College of Physicians
Bickley: Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking, 10th ed. PRINT ONLY
Cecil: Cecil textbook of medicine, 24th 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 2012: instant diagnosis and treatment.
Ferri: Practical guide to the care of the medical patient, 8th ed.
Harrison: Harrison's principles of internal medicine, 18th ed.
Seidel: Mosby's guide to physical examination, 7th ed. PRINT ONLY
Wallach: Interpretation of diagnostic tests, 8th ed.
See also: AccessEmergency Medicine | AccessMedicine
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Neurology

Adam & Victor's principles of neurology, 9th ed.
Duus' topical diagnosis in neurology, 4th ed.
Rohkamm: Color atlas of neurology
Simon: Clinical Neurology 7th ed.
Tsementzis: Differential diagnosis in neurology and neurosurgery
Waxman: Clinical neuroanatomy, 26th ed.
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Neurosurgery

Tsementzis: Differential diagnosis in neurology and neurosurgery
Waxman: Clinical neuroanatomy, 26th ed.
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OB/GYN

Comprehensive gynecology, 5th ed.
Current diagnosis and treatment : obstetrics & gynecology, 10th ed.
Danforth's Obstetrics and gynecology, 9th ed.
Hacker: Essentials of obstetrics and gynecology, 5th ed. PRINT ONLY
Gabbe: Obstetrics: normal & problem pregnancies, 5th ed.
Te Linde's operative gynecology, 10th ed. (updated)
Williams obstetrics, 23rd ed.
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Ophthalmology

Yanoff: Ophthalmology, 3rd ed.
Schlote: Pocket atlas of ophthalmology, 2d ed.
Vaughan & Asbury's general ophthalmology, 17th ed.
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Orthopedics

Browner: Skeletal trauma: basic science, management, and reconstruction, 4th ed.
Campbell's operative orthopaedics, 11th ed.
Current diagnosis & treatment in orthopedics, 4th ed.
DeLee & Drez's orthopaedic sports medicine: principles and practice, 3rd ed.
Dutton: Orthopaedic examination, evaluation, and intervention
Green: Skeletal Trauma in Children, 4th ed.
Simon: Emergency orthopedics: the extremities, 5th ed.
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Otorhinolaryngology

Bailey: Head & neck surgery--otolaryngology, 4th ed.
Bull: Color atlas of ENT diagnosis, 5th ed.
Cummings Otolaryngology--head & neck surgery, 5th ed.
Current diagnosis & treatment in otolaryngology: head & neck surgery, 2nd ed.
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, 22nd ed.
Lever's histopathology of the skin, 9th ed.
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, 19th ed.
Nelson textbook of pediatrics, 18th ed.
Green: Skeletal Trauma in Children, 4th ed.
Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children, 11th ed.
Oski's pediatrics : principles and practice, 4th ed.
Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22nd ed.PRINT ONLY
Strange: Pediatric emergency medicine, 3rd ed.

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Psychiatry

American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of clinical psychiatry, 5th ed.
Current diagnosis & treatment in psychiatry, 2nd ed.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR, 4th ed.
Goldman: Review of general psychiatry, 5th ed.
See also: PsychiatryOnline
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Radiology

Chen: Basic radiology
Eastman: 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, 3rd ed.
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Surgery

ACS surgery : principles & practice. 2009
Current surgical diagnosis & treatment, 13th ed.
Greenfield'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, 9th 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, 10th ed.
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Medical databases

Cochrane Library
E
vidence-based medicine and systematic reviews
Dynamed
Point-of-care reference resource, mobile/PDA access
EMBASE.com
MEDLINE and pharmacological information
MicroMedex
Drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, alternative medicine, mobile/PDA access
PubMed
Biomedical journal articles
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Internet Resources

FREIDA: Fellowship & Residency Electronic Interactive Database
Search for residency and fellowships
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
Publishing and author information for over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences from the Mulford Health Science Library University of Toledo
Online Resources at a Glance - Medicine (pdf)
A 'database cheat sheet' for Medicine
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Exam Preparation

ExamMaster
Medical exam preparation and medical subject review for USMLE & board certification
Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME)
Licensing entity for medical professions in Louisiana
USMLE Homepage
Official website for the United States Medical Licensing Examination
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