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Dear friends!
Here you can find some additional information for your studies. I hope you will enjoy studying internal medicine with our department and wish you great commitment and diligence. We will do our best to help you build a solid background for your further clinical education.
Please keep in mind that your higher medical education is largely self-education. We, your professors, just give you proper direction, arrange your studies. Without active participation and hard work you won't be able to succeed.
We recommend using Davidson's or Kumar&Clark as main textbooks (there are abridged versions, e.g. Davidson's Essentials). Also you can use Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, it's succinct and on-topic.
Developing reporting skills is essential, so you are encouraged to make a short reports on different topics during classes. It's a good training for your future postgraduate clinical years.
Buying books
Using several medical textbooks for internal diseases studying is reasonable because many sources of knowledge help you get a comprehensive overview of the diseases taught.
There are a few ways of buying more books at less money.
One is buying from Logobook. You can order almost any book in English and they can even deliver books to your home. The limitation is that generally the books are more expensive. Nevertheless, worth a try.
The second one is ordering through BetterWorldBooks. You are required to have a valid credit/debit card and a PayPal account (it's secure and free). You can find used books almost at no price sometimes, and worldwide delivery is just 4$.
The third one is more expensive but on some occasions worthwhile. You can order the books online from amazon.co.uk. Delivery is 3.29 GBP per item plus 5.49 GBP per package. Unfortunately one cannot order used books from Amazon Marketplace this way. Sometimes it's cost-efficient in case you buy several books at once.
Great ECG Books
As a foundation I recommend Hampton's ECG made easy, ECG in Practice and 150 ECG Problems. The first one is especially useful to refresh your knowledge, the second one is for in-depth learning, and the third one is a practice tool.
Dale Dubin's classical Rapid Interpretation of EKG's is very reader-friendly, heavily illustrated (b&w) and very simple.
Dr Gabriel Khan's book Rapid ECG Interpretation is indispensable for a clinician. It contains real-life proven systematic approach algorithms of ECG interpretation, very special though because the author suggests performing cardiac axis assessment in the end of ECG interpretation. Nevermind.
Classical BMJ papers on various ECG aspects (free!)
ABC of clinical electrocardiography (2002-2003):
1. Introduction - Leads, rate, rhythm, and cardiac axis
2. Basic Terminology
3. Myocardial Ischaemia
4. Acute Myocardial Infarction - Part 1
5. Acute Myocardial Infarction - Part 2
6. Atrial Arrhythmias
7. Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block
8. Junctional tachycardias
9. Broad Complex Tachycardia - Part 1
10. Broad Complex Tachycardia - Part 2
11. Exercise Tolerance Testing
12. Conditions affecting the left side of the heart
13. Conditions affecting the right side of the heart
14. Conditions not primarily affecting the heart
15. Pediatric electrocardiography
Great ECG sites
ECGpedia - a comprehensive information source, includes ECG course, ECG Textbook, Cases&Examples and an enormous ECG Archive (more than 2000 tracings). Also of interest is ECG Reference Pocket Card that can be printed on an A4 paper sheet.
12-LEAD ECG's - A "Web Brain" for Easy Interpretation - basic but fact-laden, concise text with original figures
Electrocardiogram section from the famous FPNotebook. It's a concise, sometimes overly, but relevant clinical outline
ECG Library by Dean Jenkins - lots of ECGs with concise explanations, a good section on ECG history
EKG Slideshow - a section from Nuclear Cardiology Seminars website, it contains some nice arrhythmia tracings with explanations
ECG Programs
New! ECG Cardiac Rhythm Simulator - executable .exe flash-based program that simulates ECG in rhythm disturbances. Download file ECG.exe
Cardiac auscultation
Six heart auscultation samples - guess what condition does each of them represent. File can be downloaded from here or here
Cardiac auscultation assistant program - very simple but useful flash-based simulator simulator that contains a few real auscultation recordings.Download it from here
Cardiac Exam: Auscultation - various murmurs recordings
Interesting blogs
Vital Signs column of Discover magazine contains medical stories for lay persons that can be interesting for medical students as well
Diagnosis column in New York Times - many stories were basis for House, MD episodes.
Physical Examination
Dear friends!
Here you can find some additional information for your studies. I hope you will enjoy studying internal medicine with our department and wish you great commitment and diligence. We will do our best to help you build a solid background for your further clinical education.
Please keep in mind that your higher medical education is largely self-education. We, your professors, just give you proper direction, arrange your studies. Without active participation and hard work you won't be able to succeed.
We recommend using Davidson's or Kumar&Clark as main textbooks (there are abridged versions, e.g. Davidson's Essentials). Also you can use Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, it's succinct and on-topic.
Developing reporting skills is essential, so you are encouraged to make a short reports on different topics during classes. It's a good training for your future postgraduate clinical years.
Buying books
Using several medical textbooks for internal diseases studying is reasonable because many sources of knowledge help you get a comprehensive overview of the diseases taught.
There are a few ways of buying more books at less money.
One is buying from Logobook. You can order almost any book in English and they can even deliver books to your home. The limitation is that generally the books are more expensive. Nevertheless, worth a try.
The second one is ordering through BetterWorldBooks. You are required to have a valid credit/debit card and a PayPal account (it's secure and free). You can find used books almost at no price sometimes, and worldwide delivery is just 4$.
The third one is more expensive but on some occasions worthwhile. You can order the books online from amazon.co.uk. Delivery is 3.29 GBP per item plus 5.49 GBP per package. Unfortunately one cannot order used books from Amazon Marketplace this way. Sometimes it's cost-efficient in case you buy several books at once.
Great ECG Books
As a foundation I recommend Hampton's ECG made easy, ECG in Practice and 150 ECG Problems. The first one is especially useful to refresh your knowledge, the second one is for in-depth learning, and the third one is a practice tool.
Dale Dubin's classical Rapid Interpretation of EKG's is very reader-friendly, heavily illustrated (b&w) and very simple.
Dr Gabriel Khan's book Rapid ECG Interpretation is indispensable for a clinician. It contains real-life proven systematic approach algorithms of ECG interpretation, very special though because the author suggests performing cardiac axis assessment in the end of ECG interpretation. Nevermind.
Classical BMJ papers on various ECG aspects (free!)
ABC of clinical electrocardiography (2002-2003):
1. Introduction - Leads, rate, rhythm, and cardiac axis
2. Basic Terminology
3. Myocardial Ischaemia
4. Acute Myocardial Infarction - Part 1
5. Acute Myocardial Infarction - Part 2
6. Atrial Arrhythmias
7. Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block
8. Junctional tachycardias
9. Broad Complex Tachycardia - Part 1
10. Broad Complex Tachycardia - Part 2
11. Exercise Tolerance Testing
12. Conditions affecting the left side of the heart
13. Conditions affecting the right side of the heart
14. Conditions not primarily affecting the heart
15. Pediatric electrocardiography
Great ECG sites
ECGpedia - a comprehensive information source, includes ECG course, ECG Textbook, Cases&Examples and an enormous ECG Archive (more than 2000 tracings). Also of interest is ECG Reference Pocket Card that can be printed on an A4 paper sheet.
12-LEAD ECG's - A "Web Brain" for Easy Interpretation - basic but fact-laden, concise text with original figures
Electrocardiogram section from the famous FPNotebook. It's a concise, sometimes overly, but relevant clinical outline
ECG Library by Dean Jenkins - lots of ECGs with concise explanations, a good section on ECG history
EKG Slideshow - a section from Nuclear Cardiology Seminars website, it contains some nice arrhythmia tracings with explanations
ECG Programs
New! ECG Cardiac Rhythm Simulator - executable .exe flash-based program that simulates ECG in rhythm disturbances. Download file ECG.exe
Cardiac auscultation
Six heart auscultation samples - guess what condition does each of them represent. File can be downloaded from here or here
Cardiac auscultation assistant program - very simple but useful flash-based simulator simulator that contains a few real auscultation recordings.Download it from here
Cardiac Exam: Auscultation - various murmurs recordings
Interesting blogs
Vital Signs column of Discover magazine contains medical stories for lay persons that can be interesting for medical students as well
Diagnosis column in New York Times - many stories were basis for House, MD episodes.
Physical Examination
