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Recommended Reading and Resources for Students

Highly Recommended Texts for Students (Consider for Purchase)

One condensed textbook of Ambulatory Care Internal Medicine:

  1. Alguire PC, CDIM, ACP Internal Medicine-Essentials for Clerkship Students 2007-2008. ISBN 9781934465134. Price $44.95.
  2. Griffith C, Hoellein A, First Exposure to Internal Medicine: Hospital Medicine. ISBN 0-071459014. Price $36.85.

Recommended Texts For Students 

  1. Abramson JS, Alper EJ, Caruso JW, et al. MKSAP 4 for Students. Philadelphia, American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine, 2008. ISBN 9781934465035.  Price $49.45. (Available at Yale Coop Medical Bookstore)
  2. One symptom-based quick diagnosis evaluation and treatment:
    1. Wasson JH, Walsh BT, Labrecque MC, Sox HC, Pantell R. The Common Symptom Guide. Fifth Edition. New York, McGraw-Hill Inc, 2002. ISBN 0-07137765-4. Price $42.25.
    2. Stern SD, Cifu AS, Ahkorn D Symptom to Diagnosis-An Evidence-Based Guide. ISBN 9780071496131.  Price $24.98.
    3. Smith DS, Field Guild to Bedside Diagnosis. Second Edition, Philadelphia, Lipincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. ISBN 0-781781655. Price $50.00.
    4. Sellers RH Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints. ISBN 9781416029069. Price $40.05.
  3. One book on interviewing:
    1. Billings JA, Stoeckle JD. The Clinical Encounter. A Guide to the Medical Interview and Case Presentation. St. Louis, Mosby Inc, 1999. ISBN 0-815113749. Price $32.00
    2. Smith RC, Patient-Centered Interviewing - An Evidenced-Based Method. ISBN 0-781732794. Price $39.95.

Other Recommended Texts For Students:

  • Wilson, J., Laine, C., Goldmann, F., Sox, H. In the Clinic: Alcohol Use.Annals of Internal Medicine, ITC-3, March 2009. PMID 19258556. Price - free.
  • Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine, Primer to the Internal Medicine Clerkship, December 2004. Download at IM.org/publications. Price - free.
  • Barker LR, Burton JR, Zieve PD, Principles of Ambulatory Medicine. Seventh Edition. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins 2006. ISBN 9780683303520. Price $90.00.
  • Up-to-date (see Cushing Library site).
  • Newble D, Cannon R., A Handbook for Medical Teachers (4 th Revised Edition). Dordrecht; Boston, Kluwer Academic, 2001. ISBN 0-792370929. Price $71.97.

Electronic

  • OVID (Available at Yale Library Site)
  • Medline
  • Cochrane Database
  • Best Evidence
  • Micromedex (Pharmacy Database Available at Yale Library Site)

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