Databases, Resources, & Tools
Board Prep & eTextbooks
Board Prep
Amboss
For students preparing for their USMLE exams. It includes Learning Cards to test future physicians’ medical knowledge of clinical topics along with a Qbank that covers 15,000+ clinical knowledge areas.
Sketchy Medical
Offers creative videos, flashcards, and quizzes to support the learning and retention of complex medical concepts. Click “Sign Up” on the login page and register with your Yale email.
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Exam Master
A study tool for health science students preparing for board exams. Covering a wide variety of subjects and intended for medical, PA, and nursing students, EMO provides review questions, practice exams, explained answers and more. Includes NCLEX-RN which reflects the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s latest test plan.
AccessMedicine
Provides a variety of educational tools, including a Study Tools section with thousands of sample questions in different areas that can be used to create customized practice exams. Textbooks devoted to board review prep are also available.
LWW Health Library Medical Education
Provides access to books and multimedia educational resources, including case collections.
Textbooks
- Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures
- Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 3e
- Danforth’s Obstetrics and Gynecology
- DSM-5-TR (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders)
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine, 5e
- Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, 9e
- Genetics in Medicine, 9e
- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 22e
- Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology, 28e
- Firestein & Kelley’s Textbook of Rheumatology, 12e
- Medical Physiology (Boron and Boulpaep), 3e
- Merritt’s Neurology, 12e
- Netter’s Clinical Anatomy, 5e
- Palliative Care for Non-cancer Patients
- Physiology (Costanzo), 7e
- Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
- Principles of Ambulatory Medicine
- Rapid Interpretation of EKGs, 6e
- Robbins, Cotran & Kumar Pathologic Basis of Disease, 11e
- Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method, 4e
- Textbook of Gastroenterology
- Wheater’s Functional Histology, 7e
- Williams Obstetrics, 26e