Recommended Books for CLINICAL SCIENCE
1. Internal Medicine Textbook- Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine
- Clinical Medicine - Kumar & Clark
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Clinical Bedside- Hutchison's Clinical Methods OR
- Macleod's Clinical Examination
- Bedside in Clinical Medicine - Arnup Kumar Kundu
2. Surgery Textbook- Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery
- SRB Textbook of Surgery*
- Manipal Manual of Surgery
Clinical Bedside - An Introduction to the Symptoms and Signs of Surgical Disease - Norman L. Browse
- Hamilton Bailey's Physical Signs*
- S. Das A Manual of Clinical Surgery
3. Paedriatics Textbook- O. P Ghai's Essential Paedriatics
- Indian Association of Paedriatics*
- Text Book of Paedriatics - Nelson
Clinical Bedside- Clinical Paediatrics - Meharbin Singh
4. Gynaecology and Obstretics Textbook- Shaw's Text Book of Gynaecology
- Text Book of Obstretics Dutta
- Text Book of Gynaecology Dutta
- Jeffcoate's Principle of Gynaecology
- Williams Obstretics
5. ENT Textbook- Diseases of Ear Nose and Throat - P L Dhingra
- Logen Turnner Diseases of Nose Throat and Ear
6. Ophthalmology Textbook- Ophthalmology - A K Khurana
- Parson's Diseases of the Eye
- Clinical Ophthalmology Kanski
Clinical Bedside- Clinical ophthalmology - A K Khurana*
7. Forensic Medicine Textbook- The Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology - Reddy OR
- Principles of Forensic Medicine - Apurba Nandy
- Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology Modi's
8. Community Medicine Textbook- Park's Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine - Park & Park
Statistics- Biostatistics - B K Mahajan
9. Other Useful Books- A Clinical Manual for Medical Students (Especially useful for new comers and during exams contain history taking & clinical examination (Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Padiatrics, Gyn/Obs, ENT, Opthalmolgy, Forensic Medicine & Community Medicine and also includes Past Question Papers) with frequently asked questions in the Bedside & Viva)
- Churchill's Pocketbook of Differential Diagnosis
- Oxford's Pocketbook of Medicine
- Washington's Manual of Medical Therapeutics.
10. Must have- Stethoscope (for auscultation)
- Hammer (for reflexes)
- Torch Light ( to exmining low light area e.g. oral cavity)
- Inch Tape (for Measuring lumps, wounds etc)
- Tuning Fork (to find out hearing defects)
- Ophthalmoscope ( very few people buy it)
Please read this information before buying:- Book names with bold are bought and read by almost all the students. You don't have to buy all the books that are listed in a subject, buy ony of them and then you can decide after a month or so whether you need more on that subject or not.
- OR indicates either of them are good, buy one of them.
- Book names with asteric * is bought by most of the students infact its good to buy if you want to excell.
- Before buing any books go to the library and take a look, which ever book u feel easy reading buy that and keep other book as reference.
- Consult with the immediate senior about the books.
- Always ask for latest edition.
- Find out if you could get interactive CDs for above subjects, usually they are very helpful.
Glimpse of Clinical Books
