Doody’s Core Titles® 2018 features a carefully curated list of essential resources put together by 150+ medical librarians and content experts. The Core Titles list, “represents essential knowledge needed by professionals or students in a given discipline and is highly recommended for the collection of a library that serves health sciences specialists¹.” The 2018 list included 121 Elsevier Medical Reference books added to the list, 28 which were deemed Essential Purchase Titles by their library sectors.

Doody’s Core Titles® 2018 Essential Purchase picks:

Anatomy

Netter’s Clinical Anatomy, 4th Edition by John T. Hansen, PhD

Atlas of Human Anatomy, 7th Edition by Frank H. Netter, MD

Anesthesiology

Essentials of Pain Medicine, 4th Edition by Honorio Benzon, MD

Hagberg and Benumof’s Airway Management, 4th Edition by Carin A. Hagberg, MD

Basic Science

Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications by Duane E. Haines, PhD, FAAAS, FAAA

Cardiology

Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 11th Edition by Douglas P. Zipes

Practical Cardiology by Majid Maleki, MD, FACC, FESC, FAPSC

Emergency Medicine

Roberts and Hedges’ Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care, 7th Edition by James R. Roberts, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FACMT

Total Burn Care, 5th Edition by David N. Herndon, MD, FACS

Family Medicine

Conn’s Current Therapy 2018 by Rick D. Kellerman, MD

Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis, 4th Edition by Steven McGee, MD

General Medicine

Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence, 2nd Edition by Eric S. Holmboe, MD, MACP, FRCP

Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher: An Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2nd Edition by Ronald M Harden, OBE MD FRCP(Glas) FRCPC FRCSEd

Ferri’s Best Test: A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging, 4th Edition by Fred F. Ferri, MD, FACP

Hematology

Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice, 7th Edition by Ronald Hoffman, MD

Infectious Disease

Feigin and Cherry’s Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 8th Edition by James Cherry, MD, MSc

Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine

Rothman-Simeone and Herkowitz’s The Spine, 7th Edition by Steven R. Garfin, MD

Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Athletes: Prevention, Treatment, and Return to Sport by Robert A. Arciero, MD

Pathology

MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver, 7th Edition by Alastair D. Burt, MD

Robbins Basic Pathology, 10th Edition by Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath

Hematopathology, 2nd Edition by Elaine Sarkin Jaffe, MD

Pediatrics

Kendig’s Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children, 9th Edition by Robert W. Wilmott, MD, FRCP

Volpe’s Neurology of the Newborn, 6th Edition by Joseph J. Volpe, MD

Radiology

Diagnostic Ultrasound, 5th Edition by Carol M. Rumack, MD, FACR

The Requisites: Breast Imaging, 3rd Edition by Debra Ikeda, MD, FACR, FSBI

Surgery

Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 8th Edition by Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS

Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery, 9th Edition by Anton N Sidawy, MD, MPH

Taneja’s Complications in Urologic Surgery: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management, 5th Edition by Samir S. Taneja, MD

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