In addition to personalized reference service from the reference librarians the following resources can help you successfully navigate your rotations. Each specialty has classic resources that serve as practical bibles for now and the rest of your professional career; they may be textbooks, handbooks, or favorite databases and online collections. Below are links to both electronic and physical copies of these titles.

• Medicine
• Neurology
• Obstetrics/Gynecology
• Pediatrics
• Primary Care
• Psychiatry
• Surgery

Medicine

Textbooks

Internal Medicine

• Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (print and online copy catalog records)
• Cecil Medicine  (print copy catalog records)

Cardiovascular Diseases

• Hurst's the heart (print and online copy catalog records)
• Braunwald's heart disease: a textbook of cardiovascular medicine (print copy catalog records)
• Textbook of cardiovascular medicine edited by Eric J. Topol (print and online copy catalog records)
• Rapid interpretation of EKG's: an interactive course (print and online copy catalog records)
• Kaplan's clinical hypertension (print and online copy catalog records)

Endocrinology

• Williams textbook of endocrinology (print copy catalog records)
• Werner and Ingbar's the thyroid: a fundamental and clinical text (print and online copy catalog records)
• Metabolic & molecular bases of inherited disease (print copy catalog records)

Gastroenterology/Hepatology

• Textbook of gastroenterology edited by Tadataka Yamada (print copy catalog records)
• Schiff's diseases of the liver (print and online copy catalog records)

Oncology

• DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's cancer : principles & practice of oncology (print and online copy catalog records)

Hematology

• Williams hematology (print and online copy catalog records)
• Wintrobe's clinical hematology (print and online copy catalog records)

Nephrology

• Brenner & Rector's the kidney (print copy catalog records)
• Diseases of the kidney and urinary tract (print and online copy catalog records)

Urology

• Campbell-Walsh urology (print catalog records) *also known as 'Campbell's urology 
• Smith's general urology (print and online copy catalog records)

Dermatology

• Fitzpatrick's dermatology in general medicine (print copy catalog records)
• Fitzpatrick's color atlas and synopsis of clinical dermatology (print and online copy catalog records)

Emergency Medicine

• Emergency medicine : a comprehensive study guide (print and online copy catalog records)
• Trauma edited by David V. Feliciano (print and online copy catalog records)
• Goldfrank's toxicologic emergencies (print and online copy catalog records)

Critical Care

• Irwin and Rippe's intensive care medicine (print and online copy catalog records)
• Civetta, Taylor and Kirby's critical care (print and online copy catalog records)
• ICU book (print and online copy catalog records)

Infectious Diseases

• Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases (print copy catalog records)
• Manson's tropical diseases (print and online copy catalog records)
• Red book: report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (print and online copy catalog records)

Pharmacology

• Goodman & Gilman's the pharmacological basis of therapeutics (print and online copy catalog records)

Handbooks

• Current Diagnosis and Treatment... series (some print and some online)
• Washington Manual....series (print copy catalog records)
• 5 Minute Consult....series (print and online copy catalog records)
• AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (print copy catalog records)

Databases and online tools

• UptoDate 
• BMJ Clinical Evidence
• ACP PIER
• STAT!Ref
• R2Library
• Books@OVID
• AccessMedicine
• NetLibrary (EBSCOhost)
• Ebrary

Neurology

Textbooks

• Merritt's neurology (print and online copy catalog records)
• Adams and Victor's principles of neurology (print and online copy catalog records)

Handbooks

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Databases and online tools

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Obstetrics/Gynecology

Textbooks

• Danforth's obstetrics and gynecology  (print and online copy catalog records)
• Berek & Novak's gynecology (print and online copy catalog records)
• Te Linde's operative gynecology (print and online copy catalog records)
• Williams obstetrics (print and online copy catalog records)
• Drugs in pregnancy and lactation: a reference guide to fetal and neonatal risk (print and online copy catalog records)

Handbooks

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Databases and online tools

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Pediatrics

Textbooks

• Rudolph's pediatrics (print and online copy catalog records)
• Nelson textbook of pediatrics (print copy catalog records)
• Oski's pediatrics: principles & practice (print and online copy catalog records)
• Avery's diseases of the newborn (print copy catalog records)
• Red book: report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (print and online copy catalog records)

Handbooks

• Harriet Lane handbook: a manual for pediatric house officers (print copy catalog records)
• See also the Medicine rotation resources above.

Databases and online tools

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Primary Care

Textbooks

• Primary care medicine: office evaluation and management of the adult patient  edited by Allan Goroll (print and online copy catalog records)
• Textbook of family medicine edited by Robert E. Rakel (print copy catalog records)

Handbooks

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Databases and online tools

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Psychiatry

Textbooks

• Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry (print and online copy catalog records)
• American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of child and adolescent psychiatry (print copy catalog records)
• Psychiatry edited by Janis L. Cutler and Eric R. Marcus (print copy catalog records)

Handbooks

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Databases and online tools

• Psychiatry Online
• PsycINFO
• See also the Medicine rotation resources above.

Surgery

Textbooks

• Schwartz's principles of surgery (print and online copy catalog records)
• Sabiston textbook of surgery: the biological basis of modern surgical practice (print copy catalog records)
• Greenfield's surgery: scientific principles and practice (print and online copy catalog records)
• ACS surgery: principles and practice (print and online copy catalog records)

Surgical subspecialties

• Basics of anesthesia (print copy catalog records)
• Stoelting's anesthesia and co-existing disease (print copy catalog records)
• Miller's anesthesia (print copy catalog records)
• Clinical anesthesia (print and online copy catalog records)
• Campbell's operative orthopaedics (print copy catalog records)
• Rockwood and Green's fractures in adults (print and online copy catalog records)
• Rockwood and Wilkins' fractures in children (print and online copy catalog records)
• Cummings otolaryngology head & neck surgery (print copy catalog records)

Handbooks

See the Medicine rotation resources above.

Databases and online tools

• Videos of Surgical Procedures (National Library of Medicine)
• See the Medicine rotation resources above.