Select Print Textbooks for Physician’s Core

Select Print Textbooks for Physician’s Core

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Below is a select list of print books (those available also as e-textbooks are also noted) covering background information--in effect fundamental and factual information, on anatomy, diagnosis, physiological states, therapies, and evaluation of a patient. Some resources on ethics, law, and patient confidentiality are also highlighted.

You can also locate textbooks by searching the UMDNJ–University Libraries’ online catalog at
http://voyager.umdnj.edu, performing title, author, or subject searches to locate more print and online books.

Select Print Textbooks
For all print books below, @ denotes those books also available as E-Textbooks. Other selected E-Textbooks that can assist with your background questions are listed in another section of this toolkit.

Anatomy
1. Atlas of Human Anatomy> QS17 A881a-Reserve

Art of Diagnosis
1. Clinical Diagnosis: Physiologic Approach> WB200 C641-Reserve
2. Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment> WS366 C976-Reserve >>(@STAT!Ref)
3. Differential Diagnosis> WB141.5 D569-Reserve
4. Ferri's Clinical Advisor: Instant Diagnosis and Treatment> WB39 F39- Reference >>(@MDConsult)
5. French's Index of Differential Diagnosis> WB141.5-Reserve
6. Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis> WB141.5 P379-Reserve
7. Textbook of Physical Diagnosis: History & Examination> WB200 S973t- Reserve

Assessment
1. Bates Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking> WB205 B329g-Reserve
2. The Medical Interview> WB290 C855m-Reserve

Diagnostics and Laboratory
1. Tests & Diagnostic Procedures> QY39 L123t-Reference
2. Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference> QY39 P128m-Reference
3. Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Test> QY39 P739

Disease and Conditions
1. Cecil Textbook of Medicine> WB100 T355m-Reserve >>(@MDConsult)
2. Griffith’s 5-Minute Clinical Consult> WB39 F565 >>(@STAT!Ref)
3. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine> WB115 H322-Reserve >>(@AccessMedicine)
4. Mosby's Handbook of Disease> QZ39 L278m-Reference
5. NORD Guide to Rare Disorders> QZ N277n-Reference >>(NORD Database)

Disease and Conditions--Specialty Textbooks
1. 5-Minute Pediatric Consult> WS39 F565-Reference >>(@Books@Ovid)
2. Basic Surgery> WO100 B311s-Reserve
3. Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment> WS366 C976-Reserve >>(@STAT!Ref)
4. Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics> WS100 N423T-Reserve >>(@MDConsult)
5. Oski's Pediatrics: Principles and Practice> WS100 P957-Reserve >>(@Books@Ovid)
6. Principles of Surgery> WO100 P957-Reserve >>(@STAT!Ref)
7. Textbook of Family Practice> WB110 T355-Reserve >>(@MDConsult)

Ethics, Code, Conduct, Confidentiality and the Law

Ethics
Code of Medical Ethics, Current Opinions with Annotations: Including the Principles of Medical Ethics, Fundamental Elements of the patient-physician relationship and rules of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, 2004-2005> W50 A512ca-Reference

1. Encyclopedia of Bioethics, volume 1-5> QH332 E56-Reference
2. Medical ethics: codes, opinions, and statements> W50 M489c-Reference

HIPAA
1. Field Guide to HIPAA Implementation 2004> W32.5 F453

Law
1. The Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law > W32.5 C678r
2. Women, Medicine, Ethics and the Law> WA309 W872m

Health and Wellness
1. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book> WB120 M473-Reference
2. Self-Help group Directory> WM426 S465-Reference
3. ***Diabetes sourcebook: basic consumer health information about Type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent or juvenile-onset diabetes), Type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent or adult-onset diabetes, gestational diabetes> WK810 D536s

***Other Sourcebooks on a variety of consumer topics are also at our Newark Campus UMDNJ Library

Pharmacology
1. AHFS Drug Information> QV740 A512-Reference >>(@STAT!Ref)
2. Drug Facts and Comparisons (looseleaf binder edition)> QV772 D794fc-Reference
3. ImmunoFacts> QW539 G727i-Reference
4. Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference> QV738 M3e-Reference
5. Merck Manual> WB100 M555-Reference >>(@STAT!Ref)
6. Mosby's Drug Consult> QV772 M894-Reference >>(@STAT!Ref)
7. PDR Physicians Desk Reference> QV772 P587-Reference
8. USP DI, Drug Information for the Health Care Provider> QV738 U76 vol1-Reference >>(@STAT!Ref)
9. USP DI, Advice for the Patient> QV738 U76 vol2-Reference >>(@STAT!Ref)