BOOK AND SUPPLY LIST 1ST YEAR
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Required textbooks and equipment are indicated in bold. All other items are recommended. Please note that the links to ebooks will require a Pitt username and password.
· Fundamentals of Basic Science block
o Medical Anatomy
§ Required: white laboratory coat
§ Required: Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy, 6th edition
Ebook: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.clinicalkey.com/dura/browse/bookChapter/3-s2.0-C20100686068
§ Required: Gray’s Clinical Photographic Dissector of the Human Body, 1st edition. M. Loukas et al., Elsevier Inc. 2013.
§ Required: Rohen et.al., Anatomy: A Photographic Atlas, 8th edition
§ Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 7th edition
§ Gray’s Anatomy for Students (3rd edition). R.L. Drake, A.W. Vogl, and A.W.M. Mitchell. Elsevier Inc. 2015
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o Human Genetics
§ Thompson and Thompson, Genetics in Medicine, 7th or 8th edition
Ebook:
http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.clinicalkey.com/dura/browse/bookChapter/3-s2.0-B9781416030805X50019
o Fuel Metabolism
§ Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry, 6th edition
o Cellular & Pathological Basis of Disease
§ Required: Robbins and Cotran, Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th edition
Ebook: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.clinicalkey.com/dura/browse/bookChapter/3-s2.0-C20110055734
§ Alberts, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th or 6th edition
§ Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 12th edition
Ebook: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookid=374
§ Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 11th edition
§ Ebook:
http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookid=1193
o Immunology in Health and Disease
Abbas, Basic Immunology, 4rd edition
Ebook:
https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/browse/book/3-s2.0-C20140041366
o Medical Microbiology
§ Schaecter’s Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 4th or 5th edition
§ Jawetz’s Medical Microbiology, 27th edition
Ebook:
http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url= http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookid=1551
· Introduction to Patient Care block
o Medical Interviewing
§ Required: stethoscope, otoscope, reflex hammer, tuning forks
§ The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice, 5th edition
Ebook:
http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://online.statref.com/Document.aspx?grpalias=UPHSLPIER&FxId=245
o Introductory and Advanced Physical Examination
§ Required: Lynne S. Bickley. Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. 11th Edition. Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2012.
§ Required: stethoscope, otoscope with insufflator bulb, ophthalmoscope, reflex hammer, tuning
· Physician, Patient and Society block
o Ethics, Law & Professionalism
§ A Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society (2000) by Kevin O'Rourke
o Behavioral Medicine
§ Behavior and Medicine, 5th edition
· Scientific Reasoning in Medicine block
o Introduction to Medical Decision Making
§ Rational Medical Decision Making: A Case-Based Approach
o Methods & Logic in Medicine
§ Glantz, Primer of Biostatistics, 7th edition