LibGuides: Student Resources: Surgery

Resources

AccessSurgery A comprehensive resource for surgery education that provides textbooks, videos, animations, a differential diagnosis tool, interactive board review, and more.

Clerkship Corner | AccessSurgery
Textbooks, cases, and Q&A selected with medical students in mind.
Case Files: Surgery, 6th ed.
Cases to prepare you for surgical situations you are likely to handle. Please sign in or create a free MyAccess Profile to access comprehension questions and save answers.

UpToDate Clinical information resource designed to provide health care professionals concise, practical answers needed at the point of care.
View Quick Reference Card (PDF), watch UpToDate video demonstrations.
PubMed LinkOut Search MEDLINE for biomedical literature. Includes links to MCW Libraries' journal subscriptions.
See our PubMed LibGuide for helpful information.
ClinicalKey Featuring topic pages, books, journals, medical and procedural videos, millions of images, content from First Consult, and much more. Account registration required for access to book PDFs, Presentation Maker, and other features.
Mobile App Installation Instructions:
1. Create an account in ClinicalKey. You must create your account on a computer or tablet connected to the MCW network either on campus or off campus while logged into OpenAthens. Click Register in the top, right corner of the screen and fill out the form.
  1. Use your affiliated institutional email address (MCW, Froedtert, or CHW) to create your account.
  2. Activate your account through a confirmation email.
  3. Apply for Self-Managed Remote Access to view all subscribed content when off campus. See the ClinicalKey Information/FAQs guide for instructions.
2. Once you have a username and password, you can download the ClinicalKey Mobile App on your mobile device from the App Store or Google Play.
3. Launch the ClinicalKey app from your device and sign in using the username and password you created.
Please note - To maintain your free app, you will need to log in to the ClinicalKey website with your account every 180 days.

Recommended Journals

Journal recommendations are provided by the directors of the Surgery Clerkship.

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Textbooks

Essentials of General Surgery by Peter F. Lawrence
Call Number: Reference - WO 100 E783 2013
Publication Date: 2013
This book can can only be used within the library.
Essentials of Surgical Specialties by Lawrence PF (ed.), Bell RM (ed.), Dayton MT (ed.)
Call Number: Reference & Circulating - WO 500 E783 2007
The reference copy can only be used within the library. The circulating copy can be checked out for 4 weeks.
NMS Surgery by Jarrell BE (ed.), Kavic SM (ed.)
Call Number: Circulating - WO 18.2 N738 2016
Publication Date: 2016
This book can be checked out from the Todd Wehr Library for 4 weeks.
The Washington Manual of Surgery, 8th ed. by Mary E. Klingensmith; Paul Wise
Publication Date: 2019
Click on the link above to be taken to the e-book full text.