AbalaTips 101: Recommended Philippine Medical Textbooks and Approach to Textbook --> Active Learning

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Here I will give a little bit of Introduction to Medical Textbook and how I did to read and approach them in such a way it can stuck into the long memory for a long time spanning on learning to exam. Then I will give each of the textbook list per subject which I hope could help you in your subject. Take note here are only RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK to be used,

Disclaimer: This AbalaTIP is encourage readers to read textbook and do active learning on them, this will not invalidate of your study strategy but rather as a supplement to encourage to put active learning on it

Again what is active learning, 

Now according to Queen University in Canada, ACTIVE Learning is  where "it engages students in learning, using activities such as reading, writing, discussion, or problem solving, which promote analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of class content,"  this means that students will play a big role in that part to supplement their learning 

According to Boston University, here are the methods of Active Learning

  • Minute Papers: at some point during lecture, students are asked to for one or two minutes on a given topic. (experience-wise can be done individually after the topic)
  • Self-Assessment: similar to concept inventories and diagnostic assessments, these ungraded exercises, typically delivered at the beginning of a term or new unit, are used to help identify gaps in student understanding. (usually Pre and Post-test for a subject that is read)
  • Interactive Lectures: often in the form of brief polls, these activities take place during lectures, giving students a chance to make predictions, solve short problems, etc.
  • Inquiry Learning: larger in scope, these exercises commonly involve having students conduct different aspects of scientific inquiry, such as observing phenomena, analyzing data, predicting outcomes, etc.

According to and modified from Melbourne University, here are the methods that we can apply, these selected can be applicable for reading textbook

  • Use memorization strategies- examples are MNEMONICS that you can see in First Aid USMLE review materials or in the medtwitter 
  • Change the format of information- example a long paragraph in Harrison or Nelson or Katzung , or Harper turn them into diagrams, bullets, or tables 
  • Write and Draw frequently- make summaries, glossary or picture taking (for example summary of your Physiology, or Draw for example what you had learned in Legal Medicine)
  • Add missing links or information gaps such as write on piece of paper memorize, then after memorized remove the papers (in my interpretation and experience, this is where PPC's "Vertical-Horizontal Learning with Clinical Correlations" comes into play pls click here for the link to the blog [credits and with Permission from PPCMD2])
  • Practice Labeling, Diagrams- usually done in SGDs Case discussions, Laboratories, Practicals) [you can use the blog about visualizing your lessons in this blog here)
  • Test your understanding- via Pre/Post test - without notes, this will help you learn your weaknesses, also for us medical students we may also practice to correlate, simplify, and use our mother tongue as if talking to a patient

Like making a product in active learning, these textbooks are like raw materials alongside with your lectures or SGDs but applying active learning onto them will be made into a good material or finished product,


Here the goal if applied the ideal is to have 20-50% for active learning in terms of correlating it to other subject 

Tip here is ask your professor or instructors what textbook did they use as reference as you can trace it back to apply active learning onto it 

Here are now the recommended textbook in tabular form
Take note of the following definitions
  • Main textbook- The one that is most commonly used in medical schools
  • Atlas- textbook used to visualize something
  • Supplementary text- aids used to fill the gaps of one textbook (take note if there are two main textbooks, one will fill the gap of another)

1st year

 

Main

Atlas

Supplementary

Gross Anatomy

·  Snell Clinical Anatomy

·  Moore Clinically Oriented Anatomy

·  Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy

·  Abraham and McMinn Atlas of Anatomy

·  Clemente Atlas of Anatomy

·   Gray's Anatomy

Histology

·  Junqueira Basic Histology

·  Difiore Atlas of Histology

·  Pawlina Textbook of Histology

·  Wheather’s Histology

Biochemistry

·  Harper’s Ilustrated Biochemistry

·  Lippincott Biochemistry

·  Lehninger Biochemistry

·   

·  Devlin textbook of Biochemistry

·  Molecular Biology of the cell

Physiology

·  Berne and Levy Physiology

·  Guyton and Hall Physiology

·  Ganong Physiology

·   

·  Boron Physiology

·  Costanzo Physiology

Embryology

·  Langman Medical Embryology

·  Moore The Developing Human

·   

·   

Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology

·  Manter and Gatz Essentials of Neuroanatomy

·  Pastestas Neuronatomy

·  Snell Neuroanatomy

·  Waxman neuroanatomy

·   

·  Haines Fundamentals of Neuroscience

Preventive Medicine I

·  Family Medicine by Maglonzo

·   

·   

2nd year

Subject

Main

Atlas

Supplementary

Clinical Medicine/ Physical Exam

·  Bates Guide to Physical Exam

·  DeGowin Diagnostic Examination

·   

·  Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine (Chapter 2)

Pathology

·  Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease

·  Robbins Atlas of Pathology

 

·  Baby Robbins

·  Rosai Surgical Pathology (but this is more an atlas)

·  Pathoma Pharmacology

Microbiology

·  Jawetz Microbiology

·  Murray Microbiology

·  First Aid for USMLE Part 1 (Microbiology part

·  Color Atlas of Diagnostic Microbiology by De La Maza

·  A Photographic Atlas for Microbiology Laboratory

·  Sherris Microbiology

·  Microbiology Made Ridicolously Simple

Parasitology

·  Belizario Medical Parasitology in the Philippines

·  Markell and Vogues Medical Parasitology

·  Garcia Practical Guide to Diagnostic Parasitology

·  Medical Parasitology: A Self-Instructional Text (For Drawings with parts)

·   

Immunology

·  Abbas Molecular and Cellular Immunology

·  Janeway Immunobiology

·   

·   

Pharmacology

·  Basic & Clinical Pharmacology Katzung

·  Goodman Pharmacological Basis of Disease

·   

·  Katzung Pharmacology Board Review

 

Psychiatry

·  Kaplan and Saddocks Synopsis of Psychiatry

·   

·  Kaplan and Saddokcs Comprehensive Psychiatry

·  DSM-V Manual

Surgery

·  Schwartz Principles of Surgery

·  Sabiston Textbook of Surgery

·   

·  Current Surgical Therapy

Pediatrics

·  Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics

·   

·  PPS Preventive Pediatrics

·  Nelson Symptom Based Diagnosis

·  Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics

·  Pediatric Physical Examination by Dudersdadt (Bates equivalent in Pedia)

Physiologic OB

·  Williams Obstetrics

·   

·   

Preventive Medicine II

·  Lecture Notes

·  Basic & Clinical Biostatistics

·  Introduction to Epidemiology

·  Epidemiology 101

·  Greenberg Epidemiology Population

·  Painless Evidence-Based Medicine

·  How to Read a Paper: Evidence Based Medicine

·  Straus Evidence Based Medicine

·  Painless Evidence-Based Medicine

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·   


3rd year

 

Main

Atlas

Supplementary

Clinical Medicine II/ Internal Medicine

·  Harrison Principles of IM

·   

·  Harrison Manual of Medicine

·  Ferris’ Clinical Advisor

·  Algorithms for Clinical Diagnosis

·  CPGs (Local and international)

·  IM Platinum

·  Medicine Blue Book

·  ECG Interpretation Made Easy

Surgery

General Surgery and some subspec

·  Schwartz Principles of Surgery

·  Sabiston Textbook of Surgery

Subspec Surgery

·  Shields Thoracic Surgery

·  Kirklin Cardiac Surgery

·  Conn Cardiac Surgery

·  Rutherford Vascular Surgery

·  Grabb and Smith Plastic Surgery

·  Campbell Orthopedic Surgery

·  Campbell Walsh Urology

·  Smith Urology

·  Youmann and Wilkins Neurosurgery

·  Ashcraft Pediatric Surgery

·  Grosfeld Pediatric Surgery

·   

·  Ferris’ Clinical Advisor

·  Surgery Platinum

 

OB-GYNE

·  Williams Obstetrics

·  Lentz Comprehensive Gyncology

·  Novak Gynecology

·   

·  Williams Gynecology

·  OB-GYNE Platinum

Pediatrics

·  Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics

·   

·  Pedia Platinum

·  Nelson Symptom Based Diagnosis

·  Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics

Anesthesiology

·  Miller’s Principles Anesthesia

·  Miller’s Basic Anesthesia

·  Barash Anesthesia

·  Morgan Mikhail Anesthesia

·   

·   

Clinical Pharmacology

·  Basic and Clinical Pharmacology

·  Goodman Gillman Pharmacology

·   

·  Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment

·  Ferris’ Clinical Advisor

·  Latest CPGs

Applied or Clinical Nutrition

·  Krause and Mahan Food & the Nutritional Process

·  Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition

·  Williams Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy

·  Nutrition Manual if your med school has one

·   

·  Philippine Food Exchange List

·  Advanced Nutrition and Metabolism

Neurology

·  Adam and Victors Principles of Neurology

·  Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine

·  Snell Clinical Neuroanatomy

·  Pastestas Neuroanatomy

** to illustrate anatomy, pathways involve

·   

Dermatology

·  Andrew’s Diseases of the Skin

·  Fitzpatrick Dermatology

·  Andrew’s dses of skin Clinical Atlas

·  Fitzpatrick color atlas

·  Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine

Radiology

·  Brants Diagnostic Radiology

·  Callen Ultrasonography

·  Rumack Diagnostic UTZ

·  Advanced Topics of 3D ultrasound

·   

·   

Ophthalomology

·  Vaughn General Ophthalmology

·   

·  Kanski Clinical Ophthalmology

·  Duker Yannoff Ophthalmology

ENT

·  Boies Fundamentals of Otolaryngology

·   

·  Cummings Otolarngology Head and Neck Surgery

Legal Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence

·  Solis Legal Medicine

·  Solis Medical Jurisprudence (Philippine PLE Textbook)

·  Basics of Philippine Medical Textbook

·   

·  Jurisprudence Platinum

Rehabilitation Medicine

·  Braddoms Rehabilitation Medicine

·  DeLisa Rehabilitation Medicine

·  Alexander  Pediatric Rehabilitation

·  Primer on Rheumatic Disease

·  Fontera Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

·   

·  Rehabilitation Medicine Q&A

Emergency Medicine

·  Tintinalli Emergency Med Comprehensive Study guide

·   

·  AHA BLS, ACLS, PALS provider manual and supplementary guides

Toxicology

·  Goldfrank Toxicology

·  Casarett Basic Science of Poisons

·   

·   

Preventive Medicine III

·  Family Medicine by Maglonzo

·   

·   

Research

·  Designing Clinical Research by Hulley

·   

·   

Clinical Pathology

· Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management

·   

·   

Surgical Pathology

·  Rosai Surgical Pathology

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·   

Aids for PLE

  • -BRS Series
  • Pathoma
  • Schwartz Absite Surgery
  • Harrison Internal Medicine Self-Assesment
  • First Aid for USMLE Steps 1 and 2
  • Snell Anatomy Q and A








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