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You may be surprised that you can probably get away with buying only a handful of books throughout your whole med school career. Doesn't mean you don't have to do the reading, however. Rather, there are is a huge amount of free stuff on the internet. The best resources are from other medical schools' websites.
MedStud Book Reviews: Many dislike the approach to recommended texts that the school takes, for example, "these are all good books so any will do." If you want something a little more solid than that on which to base your expenditure of several hundred Euro, then please read the Book Reviews. The old MedStud content is included for historical interest as some of the older texts are still in use and perfectly good. Remember that a lot of "essential texts" are not really that essential and free web-based resources are entirely sufficient if not superior.
The UCC Digital Logbook for logging your patient encounters is available here for free
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The UCC Med School website has also posted a few good links.
The mother of all link pages is here and this is the best place to start looking. www.medicalstudent.com
However, it is a monster of a list, so none of you are going to bother looking through them all so a few of the best links are here to get you started:
| RESOURCE | SUBJECT(S) | COMMENT |
| Radiopaedia.org | Anatomy/Radiology | Everything you need to know about imaging |
| UNC Embryo Images | Embryology | Embryology - Embryo Images Online: the absolute best embryology (developmental anatomy) site. |
| DTI White matter atlas | Neuroanatomy | Diffusion Tensor Imaging - neuroanatomy from MRI images - totally gnarly. |
| Anatomy Atlas | Anatomy | Link page with links to most online atlases. |
| U of Michigan Gross Anatomy | Anatomy | Great quizzes, tables, and lists. A complete resource |
| Netter's Atlas | Anatomy | The master's images |
| eAnatomy | Radiology Anatomy |
Learn anatomy through MR imaging - a fantastic site for learning. |
| McGill Radiologic Anatomy | Radiology Anatomy |
Have an anatomy atlas open alongside |
| U of Washington Digital Anatomist | Anatomy Neuroanatomy |
Anatomy through 3D reconstructed images from MRI scans - absolutely excellent for neuro. An online course is included as well which is top notch. |
| Harvard whole brain atlas | Neuroanatomy | |
| SUNY Neuro Atlas | Neuroanatomy | |
| BU Histology Learning System | Histology | Histology - Boston University's site is great. |
| Johns Hopkins | Haematology | Flash animations of the coagulation cascade - excellent fast review of a complicated topic. |
| Human Hormones | Physiology | Human Hormones: simple chart with a list of them all. |
| U of Arizona Cardiac physiology | Physiology | |
| Physiology Models | Physiology | Physiology - Physiology Models: visual models and pictures for the visual learner. |
| Family Practice Notebook | Pathology | Particularly useful link for the autoantibodies |
| GP Notebook | General Practice | The British version of Family Practice Notebook. It is an excellent resource for dealing with common situations faced by a GP. |
| Utah WebPath | Pathology | The best pathology learning side for the visual learner. Included are multiple choice exams - great preparation for the EMQ exams. |
| UCSD Clinical Examination | Clinical Examination | Clinical examination - UCSD A Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine: Think Talley & O'Connor is a rip-off? Use this instead - the ultimate resource. |
| Blood Pressure Measurement | Clinical Examination | A helpful interactive tutorial that simulates blood pressure-taking and allows the listener to hone their ability to take accurate BP measurements. |
| Eye disorder simulator | Clinical Examination | One of the coolest sites around - check it out and you'll like it |
| Neuro exam with videos | Clinical Examination | Learn how to do the neuro exam |
| University of Toronto: Neuro Exam | Clinical Examination | Really excellent site for revising the Neuro exam. The videos are very helpful and the additional notes are simple and succint. A good refresher before OSCEs. |
| Medical Videos | Clinical Examination | Extensive collection of clinical exam and procedure videos from various sources. You can learn how to do a CVS exam properly and operate on the brainstem! |
| Clinical Exam Videos | Clinical Examination | Clinical exam videos from St. George's University of London |
| NASA | USMLE | USMLE link site (old) |
| Medical Mnemonics | Misc | Organised by discipline and by system. For those Korsakoff-like days. |
| Merck Manual | Medicine | The Merck Manual: a full medical textbook which is a decent reference. Supplied free of charge by the benevolent pharma giant Merck. |
| MIT courses | General Reference | MIT allows open access to all their courses. They have some courses in biomedical science that may be of use. |
| UT Microbiology | Microbiology | A full textbook. |
| Epocrates Drug Lookup | Pharmacology | The standard online and PDA reference. Drugs are recorded with North American names. |
| BNF | Pharmacology | The British National Formulary - the reference for drugs this side of the Atlantic. |
| Paediatric links | Paediatrics | Paediatric links |
| Radiology links | Radiology | Radiology links |
| WorldWideWounds | Surgery | |
| MedExam.net | Question Bank | A True/False style question bank with explanations which is excellent an review for exams and the MRCP. |
| Get Body Smart | Quizzes | Quizzes - provides free online quizzes in different subjects. It's a great free resource to test yourself to see if you are learning the right stuff. |
| Search Medica | Search Engine | |
| eMedicine | General Reference | Just about every disease has an article on this site - great for last minute presentations. |
| Wikipedia | General Reference | You will probably find an answer to any question here. |
| eBMJ Statistics at Square One | Statistics | Statistics - eBMJ Statistics at Square One: a textbook that covers just about everything. |
eBMJ Epidemiology for the Uninitiated |
Epidemiology | Epidemiology - eBMJ Epidemiology for the Uninitiated: another short textbook. |