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First Year Book List

Navigate through the links below to view the required and recommended readings for first year courses.

Cellular and Genetic Mechanisms

Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention

Gross and Developmental Anatomy

M1 Integrated Cases

Medical Biochemistry

Medical Physiology

Microbiology and Immunology

Neuroscience

Patient Centered Medicine I

Systems Histology

 

Cellular and Genetic Mechanisms

Required Text:

1. Nussbaum, R. L., McInnes, R.R., and Willard, H.F., Thompson and Thompson Genetics in Medicine, 7th Ed. (2007) (p/b) W.B. Saunders*, ISBN-10: 1416030808; ISBN-13: 978-1416030805
$67.95

2. Kierszenbaum, A.L., Histology and Cell Biology, Second edition (2007). Mosby Elsevier. ISBN-10:0323045278
$75.95

3. Gartner, Leslie, P. and James L. Hiatt, Color Atlas of Histology, 5th ed., 2009, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, ISBN:9780781788724
$68.95

Recommended Text:

a. Alberts, B. et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition Garland Science (2007). ISBN-10: 0815341059 ISBN-13: 978-0815341055
$149.86

b. Gilbert, S. Developmental Biology, 8th Edition (2006) Sinauer ISBN 087893250X/978-0878932504
$117.95

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Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention

Required Text: None

Recommended Text:

a. Editorials: - "Evidence Based Medicine: what it is and what it isn't", BMJ 1996; 312:71-72 (13 January)

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Gross and Developmental Anatomy

Required Text:

1. Drake, Richard L., Vogl, A. Wayne and Mitchell, Adam, Gray’s Anatomy for Students, 2nd edition. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, Philadelphia 2010. ISBN: 978-0-443-06952-9
$81.95

2. Sadler, T.W., Langman's Essential Medical Embryology. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore. 2004.  ISBN: 0781755719
$49.95

3. Morton, David, Peterson, Kerry and Albertine, Kurt, Gray’s Dissection Guide for Human Anatomy, 2nd Ed. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, Philadelphia 2006.  ISBN: 978-0-443-06951-2
$48.95

4. Toy, Eugene, Ross, Lawrence, Cleary, Leonard, and Papasakelariou, Cristo, Case Files Anatomy, 2nd Edition. McGraw Hill Medical, New York. ISBN: 978-0-071-48980-5
$32.95

5. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th edition. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore. 2005. ISBN: 0-7817-3390-1
$50.95

6. Drake, Richard L., Vogl, A. Wayne Mitchell, Adam, Tibbitts, Richard and Richardson, Paul, Gray's Atlas of Anatomy, 1st Edition. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, Philadelphia 2007. ISBN-13: 9780443067211
$77.95

or

Netter, Frank H., Atlas of Human Anatomy, 4th Edition. Elsevier, Philadelphia, A. 2006. ISBN: 1416033858
$79.95

 

Recommended Text: None

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M1 Integrated Cases

Required Text: None

Recommended Text: None

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Medical Biochemistry

Required Text: None

Recommended Text:

a. Berg, Tymoczko, Stryer, Biochemistry, 6th Ed., Freeman, ISBN 0-7617-8724-5
$195.75

b. Champe, Harvey, Ferrier Biochemistry: Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews, 4th Ed., 2007, ISBN 078176960-4
$58.95

c. Devlin, Textbook of Biochemistry, 6th Ed., John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-0471678083
$166.75

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Medical Physiology

Required Text:

1. Guyton and Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology, 11th Ed.
ISBN-13: 9780721602400
$122.00

2. Costanzo L. S., Physiology, 3rd Edition, 2006.
ISBN-13: 9781416023203
$59.95

(Texts are available for short-term loan through the RWJMS Media Library).

 

Recommended Text:

a. Costanzo, BRS Physiology Cases and Problems, 1st Ed., 2005

b. Abelow, Understanding Acid-Base, 1998 (this text is required for the 2nd year Clinical Pathophysiology)ISBN-10: 0683182722, ISBN-13: 978-0683182729
$39.69

c. John B. West, Respiratory Physiology:8th Ed. (2008), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN-13: 9780781772068
$42.95

d. Eaton and Pooler, Vander’s Renal Physiology, 7th edition, 2009, ISBN-13: 9780071613033
$37.95

e. Johnson, Gastrointestinal Physiology, 7th edition, 2007
$40.95

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Microbiology and Immunology

Required Text:

1. Sompayrac, L. How the Immune System Works, 3rd Edition (paperback) (2008) Blackwell ISBN- 13: 978-1405162210
$36.95

2. P. H. Gilligan, M. L. Smiley, and D. S. Shapiro, Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 3rd Ed. (2002); ASM Press, ISBN-13: 9781555812072
$49.95

3. Harvey, R.A., Champe, P.A. and Fisher, B.D., Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology, 2nd Ed. (2006); Lippincott-Williams and Wilkins, ISBN 0781782155
$54.95

Recommended Text- Immunology:

a. Murphy, K. Janeway’s Immunobiology, 7th Ed. [p/b](2007); Garland Science; ISBN 0815341237
$110.00

b. R. Coico, G. Sunshine, and E. Benjamini, Immunology: A Short Course, 6th Ed. (2009); Wiley-Liss; ISBN-10: 0470081589;  ISBN-13: 978-0470081587
$54.95

c. Delves, P., Martin, S., Burton, D., and Roitt, I.M.
Roitt’s Essential Immunology, 11th Ed. (2006); ISBN-10: 1405136030;  ISBN-13: 9781405136037
$74.95

Recommended Text- Microbiology:

a. Levinson, W.E. Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 10th Ed. (2008). Lange McGraw-Hill. ISBN-10: 0071496023 ISBN-13: 9780071496209
$47.95

b. G.F. Brooks, J.S. Butel, K.C. Carroll, and S. A. Morse Jawetz, Melnick, and Adelberg's Medical Microbiology, 24th Ed. (2007); Appleton and Lange; ISBN-13: 978-0071476669
$52.95

c. M. de la Maza, et al., Color Atlas of Medical Bacteriology, First Edition ; ISBN-13: 9781555812065
$139.95

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Neuroscience

Required Text:

1. Blumenfeld: Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases, 1st ed., 2002 Sinauer Associates, ISBN 0878930604
$71.95

2. Purves et al, Neuroscience, 4th Edition, Sinauer Associates
ISBN 0878936971
$102.95

3. Haines: Neuroanatomy, An Atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems 7th Edition; Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
ISBN 0781763282
$69.95

Recommended Text:

a. Gould and Brueckner: Sidman's Neuroanatomy A Programmed Learning Tool 2nd edition, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
ISBN 0781765684
$54.95

ONLY FOR STUDENTS WHO WANT TO DO SOME NEURO (Painlessly) BEFORE THE COURSE STARTS IN JANUARY

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Patient Centered Medicine I

Required Text:

1. Swartz, Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, 6th ed., 2009, Elsevier, ISBN-13: 9781416062035
$91.95

Recommended Text: None

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Systems Histology

Required Text:

1. Kierszenbaum, A.L., Histology and Cell Biology, 2nd ed., 2007, Mosby, Inc.
$72.95

2. Gartner, Leslie, P. and James L. Hiatt, Color Atlas of Histology, 5th ed., 2009, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, ISBN-13: 9780781788724
$68.95

Recommended Text: None

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