Textbook list - for students and interns
- Never buy a book that can’t fit into your pocket
- Don’t buy a book that you feel you can’t pick up at least once a week
- A good guide teaches you how or why rather than just what
Highly recommended textbooks (to easily achieve competence)
- Talley & O'Connor, Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical
Diagnosis core Clinical skills text (a classic)
- Browse's Introduction to the Symptoms
and Signs of Surgical Disease a few useful surgical topics not found in
Talley
- Oxford Handbooks – esp Handbook Medicine or Surgery disease based
- On-Call Series, Elsevier (Saunders) presentation based
- On-Call Procedures, Elsevier (Saunders)
common basic procedures
- Therapeutic guidelines drug treatment, doses and therapeutic regimes
- Nigel Raby, Accident and Emergency Radiology best introduction to
radiology I have read
- John Hampton, ECG made easy classic text but brief
- John Hampton, ECG in practice
Other useful references for MSS / Rheumatology / Ortho / Trauma
- Hoppenfeld,
Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities slightly over-detailed
but useful illustrations for MSS / Rheumatology exam
- McRae, Clinical Orthopaedic exam like Hoppenfeld but slightly more
manageable
- McRae, Practical Fracture Management good for extremity fractures
(less useful for soft tissue) - useful reference for GPS, ED and orthopaedic
RMOs.
- Apley's Concise Orthopaedics and Trauma a
classic, don't get the big version, the introductory chapters on principles
of care are pure gold
More in-depth guides (if above not adequate)
- Ken Grauer , Practical Guide to ECG Interpretation ECG reference teaches how and why
with useful summaries
- Walmsley, Cases in Chemical Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach most of his
books are good