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Books

Harrison's - will provide as much depth most of your needs

Paauw's Guide to Internal Medicine, Mosby - is written by the University of Washington's clerkship director for medicine students. It is more accessible and briefer than Harrison's.

Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine - is written by two former NMH Chief Medical residents - Dr. Desai and Dr. Isa-Pratt. It provides an excellent practical approach to abnormal labs.

Pocket Medicine - Mass General Handbook of Internal Medicine - a pocket sized book that many NU students have liked.

Journals

During the junior clerkship, journals are best used sources of review articles about topics currently under discussion on your service or in the junior conferences and original articles describing concepts or new studies of therapies that will assist in the care of your patients. If you are interested in pursuing a career in internal medicine, you would be well advised to begin browsing the following journals on a regular basis as a means of becoming familiar with current trends and controversies:

The Annals of Internal Medicine is the official journal of the American College of Physicians, and home to some of the best original literature in general internal medicine and its subspecialties. The American College of Physician web site (http//www.acponline.org) posts the table of contents of recent issues and the text of some articles.

In addition to publishing many of the most important original investigative literature of general interest, the New England Journal of Medicine offers its weekly clinicopathologic conferences (CPC) - the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital - and other features such as the regular series in clinical decision making.

JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, is probably well known to you all by now. In addition, the AMA publishes a number of specialty journals, including the Archives of Internal Medicine.

The American Journal of Medicine (the "Green Journal") is published by the Association of Professors of Medicine (the organization of chairs at US medical schools). It often contains excellent review articles. The clinicopathologic conferences of the Washington University School of Medicine are also published in AJM.