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
Textbooks
Cardiovascular Diseases
- Hurst's the heart
- Braunwald's heart disease: a textbook of cardiovascular medicine
- Textbook of cardiovascular medicine edited by Eric J. Topol
- Rapid interpretation of EKG's: an interactive course
- Kaplan's clinical hypertension
Critical Care
Dermatology
- Fitzpatrick's dermatology in general medicine
- Fitzpatrick's color atlas and synopsis of clinical dermatology
Emergency Medicine
- Emergency medicine: a comprehensive study guide edited by Judith Tintinalli
- Trauma edited by David V. Feliciano
- Goldfrank's toxicologic emergencies
Endocrinology
- Williams textbook of endocrinology
- Werner and Ingbar's the thyroid: a fundamental and clinical text
- Metabolic & molecular bases of inherited disease
Gastroenterology/Hepatology
- Textbook of gastroenterology edited by Tadataka Yamada
- Schiff's diseases of the liver
Hematology
Infectious Diseases
- Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases
- Manson's tropical diseases
- Red book: report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine
Nephrology
Neurology
Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Danforth's obstetrics and gynecology
- Berek & Novak's gynecology
- Te Linde's operative gynecology
- Williams obstetrics
- Drugs in pregnancy and lactation: a reference guide to fetal and neonatal risk
Oncology
Pediatrics
- Rudolph's pediatrics
- Nelson textbook of pediatrics
- Oski's pediatrics: principles & practice
- Avery's diseases of the newborn
Primary Care
- Primary care medicine: office evaluation and management of the adult patient edited by Allan Goroll
- Textbook of family medicine edited by Robert E. Rakel
Radiology
Rheumatology
Urology
- Campbell-Walsh urology *also known as 'Campbell's urology'
- Smith's general urology
Handbooks
- Current Diagnosis and Treatment... series
- Washington Manual....series
- 5 Minute Consult....series
- AJCC Cancer Staging Manual
- Harriet Lane handbook: a manual for pediatric house officers
- Red book: report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases
Databases and online tools
- UptoDate
- BMJ Clinical Evidence
- ACP PIER
- STAT!Ref
- R2Library
- Books@OVID
- AccessMedicine
- NetLibrary (EBSCOhost)
- Ebrary
Pharmacology
Textbooks
Databases and online tools
Psychiatry
Textbooks
- Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry
- American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of child and adolescent psychiatry
- Psychiatry edited by Janis L. Cutler and Eric R. Marcus
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
- Sabiston textbook of surgery: the biological basis of modern surgical practice
- Greenfield's surgery: scientific principles and practice
- ACS surgery: principles and practice
Surgical subspecialties
- Basics of anesthesia
- Stoelting's anesthesia and co-existing disease
- Miller's anesthesia
- Clinical anesthesia
- Campbell's operative orthopaedics
- Rockwood and Green's fractures in adults
- Rockwood and Wilkins' fractures in children
- Cummings otolaryngology head & neck surgery
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.
Last updated: 12/2012