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DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, 11th Edition by
Includes an appendix that includes case answers and clinical pearls
Macleod's Clinical Examination, 15th ed. by
Many of the examination sequences are included as photo galleries, illustrating with captions the key stages of the examination routine. Videos include examination of the cardiovascular system, examination of the respiratory system, examination of the gastrointestinal system, examination of the neurological system, examination of the ear, examination of the thyroid gland, and examination of the musculoskeletal system.
Seidel's Guide to Physical Examination, 10th ed. by
A chapter at the end includes lists of special features, which include sections on Clinical Pearls, Differential Diagnosis, Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Examination, Functional Assessment, Patient Safety, Physical Examination Components, and Risk Factors.
Symptom to Diagnosis an Evidence Based Guide, 4th ed. by
Includes a link to high-yield Diagnostic Reasoning Lectures
Systematic Musculoskeletal Examinations by
Systematic Musculoskeletal Examinations © is intended to bring a fresh approach to musculoskeletal examination instruction through the combined use of printed text (what you have before you), web-delivered self study programs (to parallel written material) with video instruction, graphics, animations and hotlinks to illustrative examples of key abnormalities plus additional web-delivered skill-building workshops (for supervised or independent hands-on practice).
Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, 8th ed. by
Includes 137 videos and chapters at the end which include Commonly Abused Drugs, Signs and Symptoms of Deficiency States, Conversion Tables, English-to-Spanish Translations Useful in the Medical Setting, and CDC Recommended Immunization Schedule
CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2025 by
The book emphasizes the practical features of clinical diagnosis and patient management in all fields of internal medicine and in specialties of interest to primary care practitioners and to subspecialists who provide general care.
The Patient History: Evidence-Based Approach, 2nd ed. by
The book's introductory chapters cover general principles of history taking and the evidence-based method. The remaining symptom-based chapters tackle 59 common clinical symptoms, including the following elements: clinical case scenario, background and key terminology, differential diagnosis, interview framework and tips, alarm symptoms (features that alert the clinician to the most serious diagnoses), focused questions (with respective likelihood ratios), prognosis, caveats or clinical pearls, and references.
Smith's Patient Centered Interviewing: an Evidence-Based Method, 4th ed. by
Our goal in this text is to present in a logical, step-by-step fashion the behaviors that are necessary to conduct an effective and efficient patient-centered interview. Interviewing is the most important and most difficult skill learners must master in their clinical careers. The book is designed for learners in medicine, advanced-practice nursing, physician assistant, and other health-related disciplines where communication and relational skills are central. Includes links to a companion teaching supplement and teaching videos.
Understanding Clinical Negotiation by
This book is about identifying, understanding, and responding to patients’ wants, needs, desires and expectations in ways that leads to better outcomes for patients and more satisfying health care relationships for everyone. The primary purpose is to equip front-line generalist medical practitioners—primary care physicians, hospitalists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or those training for these roles—to recognize the contours of clinical negotiation and how to reach a satisfactory resolution as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Clinical Ethics: a Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 9th ed. by
In order to practice excellent clinical care in modern medicine, clinicians must understand ethical issues such as informed consent, decisional capacity, surrogate decision-making, truth telling, confidentiality, privacy, the distinction between research and clinical care, and end-of-life care.
Deconstructing the OSCE by
Deconstructing the OSCE takes a fresh approach to passing OSCE exams, teaching readers how to tackle the exam in a new way. This book doesn't provide checklists of information needed for specific OSCE stations; instead it helps readers to develop generic strategies and skills that will lead to success in any OSCE exam regardless of specialty or level.
Merck Manual Professional Version by
The Merck Manual Online is updated periodically with new information, and contains photographs, and audio and video material not present in the print versions.
Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry Thirty-First Edition by
Sections I and II involve enzymology, and the book includes a link to board-style, multiple-choice review questions.
Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry by
See Chapters 8 and 9
Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health, 5th ed. by
Authors call this title unique in that medical, dental, nursing, preventive, and public health students can purchase just one book to learn about the four key areas covered on their national boards and enhance their knowledge on areas relevant to their future careers. The authors' stated goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of these four key topics without getting bogged down in unnecessary details.
Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 16th ed. by
Says the clinician who wrote this book's preface: "Multiple editions of Maxcy-Rosenau-Last accompanied me throughout [my career,] and it would not be possible for me to recount the many times I have recommended the text to my students, preventive medicine residents, physician colleagues, and fellow faculty over the years."
Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, Populations, 2nd ed. by
The authors' purpose of this book is to offer the theoretical background and practical knowledge required to teach clinicians to care for vulnerable, underserved patients both at the individual and system levels. They aim to illuminate the complexities of caring for vulnerable, underserved patients and provide both an appreciation of the need to address inequities at multiple levels and practical suggestions for how to improve the care of vulnerable populations. In addition, they aim to "enable" health-care workers, students, and other interested parties to contribute to the solution, focusing on issues of patient care that are common among underserved patients. They suggest ways to use the book's materials as teaching tools for health professions trainees in both didactic and clinical settings.
Emery's Elements of Medical Genetics and Genomics by
Chapters near the end of the book contain all clinical case files and case answers.
Medical Genetics, 6th ed. by
Clinical Commentary boxes present detailed coverage of the most important genetic diseases and provide examples of modern clinical management.
▪ Mini-summaries highlighted in gold are placed on nearly every page to help the reader understand and summarize important concepts.
▪ Study questions provided at the end of each chapter assist the reader in review and comprehension.
Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy, VOL 2 Thorax and Abdomen, 16th ed. by
This volume on the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis and perineum starts with an introduction to the trunk, or torso, defines the boundaries of each constituent part, and provides a general overview of the vertebrae, vertebral column, and autonomic nervous system which are common to all sections of the trunk.
Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy, VOL 3 Head and Neck, 16th ed. by
This volume on the head and neck, brain, and spinal cord starts with the description of the bones, cavities, organs, muscles, vessels, and nerves of the head and neck. The brain and spinal cord are discussed in the following section. The last section in the volume presents a series of cross-sectional gross anatomy images, as well as computerized tomograms and magnetic resonance images of the head, neck and brain, to enable further understanding of the intimate relationship between the structures described here.
Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy. VOL 1 Upper and Lower Limbs, 16th ed. by
Each region has images of living anatomy to help students identify on the skin surface bony or soft tissue landmarks that lie beneath. Numerous X-rays and magnetic resonance imaging further enable the student to visualize internal structures in the living. Matters of clinical importance, when mentioned in the text, are highlighted.
Gray's Anatomy for Students, 5th ed. by
Review materials/study aids are available on Student Consult as an online resource with the appropriate review materials for each chapter listed at the beginning of that chapter. This information includes an online anatomy and embryology self-study course, medical clinical cases, physical therapy clinical cases, self-assessment questions, an interactive surface anatomy module, and short answer questions.
Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 9th ed. by
Clinically Oriented Anatomy has been widely acclaimed for the relevance of its clinical correlations. As in previous editions, the ninth edition places clinical emphasis on anatomy that is important in physical diagnosis for primary care, interpretation of diagnostic imaging, and understanding the anatomical basis of emergency medicine and general surgery. Special attention has been directed toward assisting students in learning the anatomy they will need to know in the 21st century, and to this end, new features have been added and existing features updated.
Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach, 8th ed. by
Includes chapters for Plate Pearls and Study Guides
Arrhythmia Essentials, 2nd ed. by
This book is easily portable and is of great value for the busy clinician called upon to treat these patients, as well as students and nurses interested in learning more about this rapidly expanding area in medicine. It should also prove of great value to seasoned clinicians eager to gain an authoritative review of the management and treatment of patients with cardiac rhythm disorders.
Cardiovascular Physiology, 9th ed. by
In this our final edition as primary authors of this text, we have continued our penchant of focusing on the big picture of how and why the cardiovascular system operates as it does. Our firm belief is that to evaluate the importance and consequences of specific details it is essential to appreciate where they fit in the big picture. The core idea is for students not to get lost in the forest for the trees.
Diastology, 2nd ed. by
This textbook comprehensively discusses the basic molecular and hemodynamic assessment principles, epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic approaches, and treatment of the different cardiovascular diseases that lead to HFpEF.
Fuster and Hurst's the Heart, 15th ed. by
There is a clinical focus throughout the entire 15th edition, with most chapters including sections specifically devoted to commonly encountered scenarios or dilemmas in clinical practice. Content from chapters that had previously been devoted exclusively to imaging or procedural techniques has been assimilated throughout the text to more closely align with corresponding clinical content.
The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Cardiovascular System, 2nd ed. by Murtaugh's Diagnostic Strategies by
Murtagh’s Diagnostic Strategies (MDS) has been developed as an aide memoire and readily accessible reference to assist general practitioners to follow a clinical reasoning approach to patients’ common presenting problems.
Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2nd ed. by
Chapter 8: Diagnostic Reasoning and Decision Making includes content about illness scripts and examples of illness scripts.
Dale's Pharmacology Condensed, 3rd ed. by
The authors' aim is to pinpoint the essential aspects of pharmacology in a precise manner so that the reader has the confidence to recall or research more detailed material. This approach might be useful for anyone preparing for examinations, or for scientists in need of reprisal of distant and forgotten topics.
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 13th ed. by
This book's purpose is to correlate pharmacology with related medical sciences, to reinterpret the actions and uses of drugs in light of advances in medicine and the basic biomedical sciences, to emphasize the applications of pharmacodynamics to therapeutics, and to create a book that would be useful to students of pharmacology and to physicians. We continue to follow these principles in the 13th edition.
Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, 4th ed. by
Included are comprehensive updates and additions in the fundamentals of pharmacology. Along with extensive updates in the chapters on drug–receptor interactions, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, drug toxicity, and pharmacogenomics, a new chapter on drug transporters has been added. The first section of the textbook now provides a comprehensive framework for the fundamental principles of pharmacology that serve as the foundation for material in all subsequent chapters.
Rang and Dale's Pharmacology, 10th ed. by
In this edition, as in its predecessors, the authors set out to explain what drugs do in terms of the mechanisms by which they act. This entails analysis not only at the cellular and molecular level, where knowledge and techniques are advancing rapidly, but also at the level of physiological mechanisms and pathological disturbances.
Pathology: the Big Picture by
Includes a link to board-style, multiple-choice review questions.
Robbins and Cotran Atlas of Pathology, 4th ed. by
The atlas reflects the knowledge base of the Robbins series primarily in a visual format, greatly benefiting visual learners
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th ed. by
Includes clinical cases
Robbins Basic Pathology, 11th ed. by
Available on studentconsult.com: 14 Targeted Therapy Boxes, 30 videos, more than 100 clinical cases, and interactive multiple-choice questions linked to chapters; contact the library for more information
Rubin's Pathology, 8th ed. by
This is a textbook of Pathology. As physicians, our adversary is disease. In order to help developing physicians, we hope to nourish their understanding of what they are up against, believing that professional strength and effectiveness reside in that understanding. We focus here, as the subtitle indicates, on mechanisms of human disease. Our goal is to help future internists, pediatricians, surgeons, and others prepare for their specialties by acquainting them with their opponents and how they behave: how diseases develop and how they affect patients.
Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System, 7th ed. by
The authors included selected clinical cases in an appendix to illustrate how the principles of immunology may be applied to common human diseases. To make each chapter readable on its own, authors repeated key ideas in different places in the book, feeling such repetition will help students grasp the most important concepts.
Lippincott Illustrated Reviews: Immunology, 3rd ed. by
This third edition of Lippincott® Illustrated Reviews: Immunology describes updated information, with the goal of providing facts necessary for understanding the basic role of the immune system in human health and in many diseases. This is done with the hope that it will help the reader understand immunology and have the foundation to comprehend topics that are more complex over the course of their studies and possible careers in scientific or health care fields.
Before We Are Born, 10th ed. by
Includes a chapter at the end with questions to clinically oriented questions and 18 videos.
The Developing Human, 11th ed. by
Includes a chapter at the end with discussion of clinically oriented problems and 18 videos
Langman's Medical Embryology, 15th ed. by
Includes a chapter at the end with answers to questions in each chapter.
The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Nervous System, Volume 7, Part I - Brain, 3rd ed. by 
The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Nervous System, Volume 7, Part II - Spinal Cord and Peripheral Motor and Sensory Systems, 3rd ed. by 
Neuroanatomy Text and Atlas, 5th ed. by
An important goal of Neuroanatomy: Text and Atlas is to prepare the reader for interpreting the new wealth of human brain images—structural, functional, and connectivity—by developing an understanding of the anatomical localization of brain functions. To provide a workable focus, this book is largely restricted to the central nervous system. It takes a traditional approach to gaining neuroanatomical competence: Because the basic imaging picture is a two-dimensional slice through the brain (e.g., CT or MRI scan), the locations of structures and consideration of their functions are examined on two-dimensional myelin-stained sections through the human central nervous system.
Neurological Lists: Neurology - Laboratory and Clinical Research Developments by
This book is principally designed for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, internists, and medical students who require prompt contact for differentials of a disease or a sign in the field of neurology.
The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Musculoskeletal System, Volume 6, Part I - Upper Limb, 3rd ed. by
Though the science and teaching of medicine endures changes in terminology, practice, and discovery, some things remain the same. A patient is a patient. A teacher is a teacher. And the pictures of Dr. Netter—he called them pictures, never paintings—remain the same blend of beautiful and instructional resources that have guided physicians' hands and nurtured their imaginations for more than half a century.
The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Musculoskeletal System, Volume 6, Part II - Spine and Lower Limb, 3rd ed. by
Though the science and teaching of medicine endures changes in terminology, practice, and discovery, some things remain the same. A patient is a patient. A teacher is a teacher. And the pictures of Dr. Netter—he called them pictures, never paintings—remain the same blend of beautiful and instructional resources that have guided physicians' hands and nurtured their imaginations for more than half a century.
The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Musculoskeletal System, Volume 6, Part III - Biology and Systemic Diseases, 3rd ed. by
Though the science and teaching of medicine endures changes in terminology, practice, and discovery, some things remain the same. A patient is a patient. A teacher is a teacher. And the pictures of Dr. Netter—he called them pictures, never paintings—remain the same blend of beautiful and instructional resources that have guided physicians' hands and nurtured their imaginations for more than half a century.
