For those of you who wish to read more widely before you join us, please find below a selection of core texts from Year 1 of the course, one book from each category should be sufficient for the duration of your course.

Please note, a broad range of textbooks is available in the University Library and BioMed Learning Grid, and as e-books, you may wish to consider not buying any books until you have had a look at a few in the library to see which ones work best for you.

Categories:

• Cell and Tissue Biomedicine
  • Medical Sciences, J Naish and D Syndercombe Court (2019) Third Edition. Elsevier.
  • Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, J Hall and M Hall (2021) Fourteenth Edition. Elsevier.
  • Costanzo Physiology, L Costanzo (2022) Seventh Edition. Elsevier.
  • Robbins & Kumar Basic Pathology, V Kumar, A K Abbas, J C Aster, A T Deyrup, and A Das (2023) Eleventh Edition. Elsevier

• Clinical Anatomy and Imaging
  • Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy (5th edition), J Weir and P H Abrahams, Elsevier.
  • Pocket Tutor Surface Anatomy (2nd edition), Introductory pages, Chapter 1 (Introduction) & Chapter 6 (Abdomen), R Tunstall and A Mirjalili. Pd. JP Medical Lt.
  • Gray's Anatomy for Students (4th edition), Drake, Vogl & Mitchell, Elsevier.
• Clinical Skills
  • Macleod’s Clinical Examination (Latest Edition), G Douglas, F Nicol, C Robertson. Churchill Livingstone Core Medicine Textbook.
  • Clinical Medicine (Latest Edition), Kumar and Clark. Elsevier.

Reference Consult in library:

• Clinical Skills
  • Practical and Professional Clinical Skills, Vinod Patel and John Morrissey, Oxford University Press 2011.
  • Skills for Communicating with Patients, Silverman J., Kurtz S. and Draper J. (2013) Third edition. Radcliffe Medical.

• Pharmacology
  • Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology (2023), Tenth edition.

  • British National Formulary - access online via https://bnf.nice.org.uk/

  • Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 6^th Edition (2021) - Derek Waller

  • Top 100 Drugs 3^rd Edition (2022) - Andrew Hitchings

  • Drugbank look-up resource via https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/

Some of these resources, especially the eBNF, include prescribing information and Prescribing Skills are formally introduced later in the MBChB curriculum during Year 3. However, general familiarity with searching the eBNF is encouraged throughout the MBChB and this resource contains very useful notes that can support Year 1 learning.

• The Social, Ethical and Population context of medicine
  • Medical Ethics and Law: A curriculum for the 21st Century: Wilkinson, Herring, Savulescu.
  • Epidemiology, Evidence-based Medicine and Public Health. Lecture Notes. Y Ben-Shlomo, ST Brookes, M Hickman, Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Health, Behaviour and Society: Clinical Medicine in Context, Cleland J. and Cotton P., Learning Matters Ltd.