Reading List: Phase 1
Required readings will either be taken from the following textbooks or be made available through e-reserves in the library.
Some of the following books are available on-line through the Galter library but may have a limit to the number of people
who can simultaneously view them. Downloading material as a .pdf file for later reading/annotating may be necessary in
some instances. This list is subject to change. The following modules are part of the first year: FDN, CV, Pulm, Renal,
MSK, Derm and GI. These modules are part of the second year: Head&Neck, Neuro, Psych, Endo, Repro/GU and
Heme/Onc.
REQUIRED textbooks:
Module
Element:
Content Area
Intro to Profession
All
FDN
CM: Clinical Skills /
Physical Ex & Hx
CM: MDM
SM: PBL, CM
CM: MDM
CM
PD: Ethics
SM: Biochemistry
SM: Cell Biology
SM: Genetics
SM: Embryology
SM: Histology
SM: Anatomy (text)*
SM: Anatomy
(didactic atlas)*
SM: Anatomy
(prosection atlas)*
SM: Anatomy
(dissector)*
SM: Pathology
SM: Pharmacology
SM: Pharmacology
SM: Physiology
SM: Micro/Immuno
SM: Micro/Immuno
Cardiovascular
SM:
Pulmonary
Psychiatry
SM:
SM
SM
*The text and dissector are required,
Book
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance . Atul Gawande
Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. Bickley, L, 11th Edition. Wolters
Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012.
Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. Fletcher, Robert H. & Suzanne W. Fletcher, 4th
edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th edition. Fauci, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2012
Medical Decision Making. Sox, Harold C., Marshal A. Blatt, Michael C. Higgins, Keith I.
Marton. 1st edition. The American College of Surgeons.
Symptom to Diagnosis: An Evidence-Based Guide. Stern S., Cifu A., Altkorn D., 2nd edition.
McGraw-Hill Medical, 2009.
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A guide for Clinicians. Lo, Bernard, Lippincott , 5th edition.
2013
Harper's illustrated biochemistry. Murray, RK, et al. 29th ed. McGraw-Hill Medical, 2012
Essential Cell Biology. Alberts, B. et al., 3rd Ed., Garland Publishing Co, 2009.
Thompson and Thompson: Genetics in Medicine. 7th revised edition. R.L. Nussbaum, R.
R. McInnes, H.F. Willard. W.B. Saunders Co. 2007.
Before We Are Born—Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects. Moore, K.L. and T.V.N.
Persaud, 8th Ed., WB Saunders, 2013
Histology—A Text and Atlas. Ross and Pawlina, 6th Ed., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins,
Baltimore, 2011.
Essential Clinical Anatomy. Moore, K.L. and A.M.R. Agur, 4th Ed., Lippincott, Williams &
Wilkins, 2011.
Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy. Agur, A.M.R.and M.J. Lee, 13th Ed., Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins, 2009
Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body, Rohen, J. W., Yokochi,
C., Lutjen-Drecoll, E., 7th edition, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 2011
Grant’s Dissector. Tank, Patrick. 15 Ed., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 8th edition. Kumar, Abbas, & Fausto.
Saunders, 2010
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 12th edition. Katzung. Lange/McGraw Hill, 2012
Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. Brunton, Lazo,
Parker, Buxton and Blumenthal. McGraw Hill. 12th ed. 2011.
Medical Physiology. Boron, W.F. and E.L. Boulpaep, 2nd Ed., Saunders, Philadelphia, 2009
Basic Immunology: Functions and disorders of the immune system, 3rd edition. A.K.
Abbas & A.H. Lichtman. Saunders/Elsevier, 2011.
Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 12th Edition, Levinson, W. McGraw-Hill,
2012
Pathophysiology of Heart Disease: A Collaborative Project of Medical Students and
Faculty, 5th edition. Leonard S. Lilly, ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2011.
The Only EKG Book You’ll Ever Need, 6th edition. Thaler. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
2012
Pulmonary Physiology. Levitzky, M.G., 8th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2013.
Behavioral Sciences and Healthcare, 3rd Ed., Sahler, Carr
as is student's choice of one atlas.
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Some students have found the following textbooks to be useful and they are listed as supplemental sources of
information. Required readings may sometimes be taken from these texts but these will be made available as on-line
reserves through the Galter Library.
Supplemental textbooks:
Module
FDN
Element: Content
Area
CM: Medicine
Pathophysiology
SM: Biochemistry
SM: Biochemistry
SM: Biochemistry
SM: Cell Biology
SM: Cell Biology
SM: Genetics
SM: Embryology
SM: Histology
SM: Histology
SM: Histology
SM: Histology
SM: Anatomy
(imaging atlas)
SM: Physiology
SM: Physiology
SM: Physiology
SM: Micro/Immuno
SM: Micro/Immuno
SM: Micro/Immuno
Cardiovascular
Pulmonary
SM
SM
SM
SM
GI
MSK
GU
SM
SM
SM
SM
Book
Cecil Medicine [Cecil Textbook of Medicine], 24th edition. Elsevier/Saunders, 2012.
Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine, 6th Edition. S.J.
McPhee, V.R. Lingappa, W.F. Ganong. Lange/McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Essentials of Biochemistry. Schumm, D.E.., 2nd Ed., Little, Brown, Boston, 1995.
Biochemistry. J.M. Berg et al., 7th Ed., W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 2012.
Mark's Basic Medical Biochemistry-A Clinical Approach. Smith C, et al. 3rd Ed. Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 2009
Medical Cell Biology. Goodman, S.R., 3rd Ed., J.B. Lippincott Company, 2008.
Molecular Biology of the Cell. Alberts, B. et al., 5th Ed., Garland Publishing, 2008
Color Atlas of Genetics. Passarge, E. Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, 2007
Netter’s Atlas of Human Embryology. Cochard, L.R. ICON Learning Systems, 2012
Atlas of Functional Histology. Kerr, J.B., Mosby, St. Louis, 2010.
Color Atlas of Histology. Gartner, L.P. and J.L. Hiatt, 5th Ed., Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
Elsevier’s Integrated Histology. Telser, A. Mosby Elsevier, 2007
Wheater's Functional Histology: A Text and Colour Atlas. Young, B., & Heath, J.W., 5th
Ed. Churchill Livingstone, 2006.
Netter’s Introduction to Imaging. Cochard, L, Goodhartz, L, Harmath, C, Major, N., and S.
Mukundan. Elsevier, 2011
Textbook of Medical Physiology. Guyton and Hall, 12th Ed., Saunders, 2011.
Medical Physiology. Rhoades, R.A. and G.A. Tanner (Eds.), 4th Ed., Lippincott, Williams
& Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2012.
Physiology. Berne, R.M. and Levy, M. (Eds.), 6th Ed., Mosby, St. Louis, 2010.
Viruses and Human Disease, 2nd edition. Strauss & Strauss. Elsevier, 2008
Medical Microbiology, 6th ed. Murray, P.R., Rosenthal, K.S., Pfaller, M.A., Mosby. 2009
Jawetz, Melnick & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology. 26th edition. McGraw Hill, 2013.
Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. Bonow RO, Mann
DL, Zipes DJ, Libby P. Saunders 9th ed. 2011
Cardiovascular Physiology. Mohrman, D.E. and L.J. Heller, 6th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Respiratory Physiology: the Essentials. West, J.B., 9th Ed., LWW, Philadelphia, 2012.
Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology: An Integrated, Case-Based Approach, 2nd
Edition. West Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
Respiratory Physiology, A Clinical Approach. The Integrated Physiology Series.
Schwartzstein, R.M. and M.J. Parker, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Gastrointestinal Physiology. Johnson, L.R., 7th Ed., Mosby Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2007.
Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases, 13th edition, Klippel, J.H et al., eds, Springer 2008.
Smith’s General Urology, 17th edition revised, Tanagho & McAninch. McGraw-Hill, 2008.
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