Books for the wards

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A good rule of thumb: Don't overload your pockets with lots pocket manuals and cards. You can do well with just a Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia, and the UpToDate available on every hospital computer. If compelled, you can buy a PDA / smart phone and load it up with free Yale software (Mark dot Gentry at Yale dot edu).

Having said that, you might find it useful to have one primary go-to book in your pocket for each rotation. This way you always have at least one reference available during random down times away from computers. The best of these books are heavy on the information but light on the pockets.

  • Internal Medicine

Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine

  • Pediatrics

Harriet Lane Handbook: A Manual for Pediatric House Officers

  • Surgery

Surgical Recall

  • Emergency Medicine

Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook

  • Anesthesiology
  • Neurology

The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology

  • Psychiatry

Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs

  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
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