Online Textbooks

• MDConsult
  is an excellent database for textbooks. It provides access to 38 well known reference books such as:
  • Cecil's Textbook of Medicine,
  • Braunwald: Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 5th ed
  • Cotran:  Robbins Pathological Basis of Dsease, 6th ed
  • Mandell: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 5th ed
  • Ravel: Clinical Laboratory Medicine, 6th ed
  • Roberts:  Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, 6th ed
  • Sabiston: Textbook of Surgery, 15th ed

A preliminary registration is required to enter the database, but once you have registered, you only need to remember your login and password for future use.

• STAT!Ref
   The full text of 38 clinical textbooks as well as drug, coding, and reference works.
   
• Harrison's Online
  is the electonic counterpart to the immensely popular Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. In addition to having a search interface which allows you to search the contents of the online book, it also includes the following sections:
  • Harrison's Updates
  • Harrison's Clinical Trials
  • Harrison's Concise Reviews & Editorials
  • Harrison's Patient Note
  • Color Atlases
  • Harrison's Related Sites
     
• Hurst's The Heart
  The full text of this classic text is the definitive authority on cardiovascular health and disease and the anatomy of the heart.
   
• Books@Ovid
  is accessed via Ovid's Web Gateway. It contains Internal Medicine textbooks, laboratory/diagnostic textbooks, and therapeutic manuals. Some of the textbooks include:
  • The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics
  • Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient
  • Textbook of Internal Medicine
  • Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests
  • A Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
  • Drug Facts and Comparisons, Pocket Guide Version.
  • Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Gastroenterology and many more.
   
• Clinical Evidence
  is the electronic counterpart of the book of the same name. It, according to Ovid, "...provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. In other words, it contains a compendium of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions."
  
  
• EBSCO's Health Source
  provides access to over 25 health research textbooks. It includes such books as:
  • USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient
  • Stedman's Medical Dictionary