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Cardiovascular

Respiratory

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General Curriculum Resources

Blackboard
Access to online course information including electronic reserve materials.

Core Resource List
Contains materials, both print and electronic, applicable to medical students during all years of medical school, this list is searchable by title, author or subject.

Search online catalog (NUcat) for electronic and print books, journals and educational software.

(You will need to sign in to the Galter website in order to access any electronic resources from off-campus.)

Reserves via NUcat
Access to reserve materials (books, DVDs, etc.) through NUcat, the Northwestern online catalog. Click on Course Reserve, then search by class name or by department. Electronic Reserves will be available in Blackboard.

Anatomy

Dissection Videos for Medical Students (Cine Prosector Series)
Available on or off campus. This website contains the dissection videos in the Cine Prosector series. It also contains other dissection videos arranged by topic: Abdominal Region, Arm and Hand, Axillary Region, Back, Head and Neck, Leg and Foot, Pelvis and Perineum, and Thorax and Mediastinum. Also available in this resource are histology videos on various topics.

Interactive Functional Anatomy
Available on or off campus. This website contains a 3D model of the entire skeleton with muscles, ligaments, bones, arteries and nerves. For each section there is explanatory text, a quiz module, animations and videos. It includes titles such as: Interactive Shoulder, Interactive Thorax & Abdomen, Interactive Pelvis & Perineum, Interactive Knee, Interactive Head & Neck, Interactive Hand, Interactive Spine, Interactive Hip and Interactive Knee.

Molecular Biology of the Cell
Alberts, Bruce (and others) 4th Ed., Garland Publishing Co., New York, 2002.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk QH 581.2 M7184

Structure-Function Radiologic Anatomy
Cochard, Larry R.
Dr. Cochard’s Web site that is a formal part of the course in that it identifies the structures on X-rays that you are expected to learn. Study the program on your own (or in a group), and relate the features you see in the X-rays to the structures you study in the lab. X-rays will be on the practical exams, with labeled features selected from those that appear here.

Grant's Atlas of Anatomy
Agur, Anne M.R. and Lee, Ming J.10th Ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Location: Reserve Desk QS 17 G762

Anatomy of the Human Body (also known as Gray's Anatomy)
Gray, Henry.

Atlas of Human Anatomy
Frank H. Netter ; John T. Hansen, consulting editor, 3rd ed., Icon Learning Systems, 2003.
Location: Reserve Desk QS 17 N474a

Educational Resources
Available in the Education Folder on Windows computers in the Reference Room and the Learning Resources Center

  • Netter's Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy
    The 500-plus plates of anatomical paintings by Dr. Frank Netter are compiled in online form. Illustrations can be accessed by plate number, body region, organ system, or keyword. Features include selective label removal, quizzing by name or structure identification, options to create lists organized by structure, organ, or system.
  • Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy
    Presents all illustrations from the 13th English edition of the Sobotta Atlas. Over 1500 illustrations- detailed drawings made from dissections, cross-sections, classical relational anatomy, and reproductions of modern imaging technique - cover the entire macroscopic anatomy of the human body and enable direct reference to clinical practice. Included are more than 130 new drawings from original dissections. The valid new Terminologia Anatomica was adopted entirely.
Biochemistry

Marks' basic medical biochemistry
Marks, D.B., Marks, A.D., and C.M. Smith, 2nd Ed., Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Location: Reserve Desk QU 4 S643m

Embryology

Netter's Atlas of Human Embryology
Cochard, Larry R., Icon Learning Systems, 2002.
Location: Reserve Desk QS 617 C661n

Developmental Biology
Stuart F. Gilbert, 6th ed., Sinauer Associates, 2000.

Clinical Human Embryology
This is a web-based program that follows the development of the human embryo from a single-cell fertilized egg to birth. You can learn about development in three different ways: cases, subjects and by viewing the timeline. A case-based approach allows you to view topics such as spina bifida and Goldenhar Syndrome. Subject-based access allows you to see topic such as head and neck development and development of the eye. The timeline approach allows you to see everything that is happening during a particular week of development.

Educational Resources
Available in the Education Folder on Windows computers in the Reference Room and the Learning Resources Center

  • Fundamentals of Human Embryology (also called MacBaby)
    This animated program stresses principles not terminology and provides access to 18 animated sequences, which can be studied in any order. The user reviews important three-dimensional changes that transform a fertilized ovum into a human embryo. Major topics include formation of germ layers; neural tube; tube-within-a-tube body form; intraembryonic coelom and mesenteries; digestive system; pharynx; cardiovascular system; nervous system; sensory systems; urogenital system; and face.
Genetics

Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine
Nussbaum, R.L, McInnes, R.R., and H.F. Willard, 6th Ed., Saunders, 2004.
Location: Reserve Desk QZ 50 N975t 2004
2nd Location: Level 2 QZ 50 N975t 2004

Color Atlas of Genetics
Passarge, Eberhard. Thieme Medical Publishers, 2001.
Location: Reserve Desk QZ 50 P286tE

Introduction to Genetic Analysis
Griffiths, Anthony J.F.(et al)., 7th ed., W.H. Freeman, 2000.
Also available in print: Level 2 QH 430 I612

Online Mendelian inheritance in man: a directory of human genes and genetic disorders.
Maglott, Donna; Amberger, Joanna S.; and Hamosh, Ada, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Histology

Telser, Al. Digital Analytical Histology
http://www.histology.northwestern.edu
This is Dr. Telser’s website where the interface is organized in the same manner as a histology textbook: namely, into chapters that reflect the way histology has been conceptualized for the past century. Each image is annotated with transparent overlays that illustrate important, basic histological features.

Educational Resources
Available in the Education Folder on Windows computers in the Reference Room and the Learning Resources Center

  • Eroschenko’s Interactive Histology
    You can view slides in the Study Mode, where you can learn about them, or in the Review Mode, where you can quiz yourself. The slides are searchable in 2 ways: by tissue type and by organ system. You can read descriptive text about the slides and view them with or without labels. There is also a searchable glossary. To access this in the LRC, you'll need a code number that is available at the LRC Desk.
  • Histology: an Interactive Virtual Microscope
    This 2 CD set allows you to view slides by system. You can see the slides with or without labels, magnify parts of them, and read descriptive text.
  • Interactive Color Atlas of Histology
    This program is based on the book, Color Atlas of Histology, 3rd Edition. It contains descriptive text for all the slides. You can view histology slides with and without labels, zoom in and out to see more detail, and open multiple slides for comparison.
  • Wheater’s Functional Histology
    This is based on the book of the same name, and is most useful when used in conjunction with the book. You can view slides to identify structures, but there are no labels and no way to quiz yourself and check your answers. CD-ROM is on reserve-available for in-library use
General Medicine

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
16th ed., Dennis L. Kasper et al., eds, McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division, 2005.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WB 100 H322

Cecil Textbook of Medicine
Goldman, Lee; Bennett, J. Claude, eds., 22nd ed., W.B. Saunders, 2004.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WB 100 C388

Educational Resources
Available in the Education Folder on Windows computers in the Reference Room and the Learning Resources Center

  • Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination (also available on the Web, either on or off-campus)
    The fourth edition of Bate's Visual Guide to Physical Examination has been completely revised to include current equipment, the latest techniques, and modern settings. Each Module shows step-by-step examinations with rationales for the clinician's actions and contains expanded discussions of health history taking, interviewing, and describing findings. Graphics throughout the series illustrate key components of anatomy and physiology. Patients and actual expert clinicians represent diverse age groups and cultures to reflect realistic practice settings.
Physiology

Medical physiology : a cellular and molecular approach.
Boron, Walter F. and Boulpaep, Emile L., W. B. Saunders, 2005.
Location: Reserve Desk QT 104 B7356m

Textbook of medical physiology.
Guyton, A.C., 10 th Ed., Saunders, 2006.
Location: Reserve Desk QT 104 G992

Review of medical physiology.
Ganong, William F. Appleton & Lange, 2003.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk QT 104 G198r

Cardiovascular

Grossman's Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography, and Intervention
Baim, Donald C., Grossman, William, eds., 6th ed., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
Also available in print: Level 2, WG 141.5 C2 G878 2000

Heart Disease: a Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine
Braunwald, Eugene, ed. 7th ed., Saunders, 2005.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WG 200 H4358

Hurst's the Heart
Fuster, Valentin et al, eds. 11th ed., McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, 2004.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WG 100 H996

Clinical Electrocardiography: a Simplified Approach
Goldberger, Ary L. and Goldberger, Emmanuel. 6th ed. Mosby, 1999.
Also available in print: Level 2 WG 140 G618c

Cardiovascular physiology
Mohrman, D.E. and L.J. Heller, 5th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WG 102 M699c 2003

Educational Resources
Available in the Education Folder on Windows computers in the Reference Room and the Learning Resources Center

  • Cardiac Arrest
    Cardiac Arrest is an ACLS simulator with 45 patients, covering a wide variety of medical problems associated with cardiovascular collapse. Many patients pose difficult therapeutic priorities, presenting problems beyond heart attacks, such as hypocalcemia, hypothermia, and hyperkalemia. It casts you in the role of emergency physician. The patient's history is presented, and the resuscitation efforts begin. You read the ECG on the computer screen, interpret the vital signs and laboratory data, and give treatment orders. As you resuscitate the patient, you type treatment orders in plain English, ordering virtually anything you want any way you want. You can also use the quick-access buttons for common interventions, or click on a drug or action in the information listings. The are on-line protocol flowcharts, discussions of drug indications and doses, and teaching text for every patient.
  • Heart Sounds and Murmurs
    This program integrates visual images of normal and diseased hearts and the synchronized actual heart sounds themselves. It contains 135 clinical and diagnostic tutorials, 200 actual heart sounds integrated with graphic images, and more than 100 cineangiaographic, echo-doppler, and hemodynamic motion picture sequences. It also contains chest x-rays, arterial and venous pulses, pathtology slides, morphs from healthy to diseased hearts, and embryology of congenital lesions.
Respiratory

Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases
Baum, Gerald L. and Wolinsky, Emanuel, eds. 7th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WF 600 B347t

Textbook of Respiratory Medicine
Murray, John F. and Nadel, Jay A., eds, 4th ed., Saunders, 2005.

Neuroscience

The Human Brain—An Introduction to Its Functional Anatomy.
Nolte, J. 5th Ed., Mosby, 2001
Location: Reserve Desk WL 101 N789h

Neuroanatomy: an Atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems
Haines, Duane E. 6th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
Location: Reserve Desk WL 17 H153n
(Also available in Education Folder: see description below)

Textbook of Clinical Neurology
Goetz, Christopher G. and Pappert, Eric J., eds. 2nd ed., W.B. Saunders, 2003.

Child neurology
Menkes, John H. 6th ed.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

Merritt's Neurology
Rowland, Lewis P., ed. 11th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WL 100 M472t

Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects
Siegel, George J. et al, eds. 6th ed., Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1998.

Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology
Victor, Maurice, et al. 8th ed., McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division, 2005.
Also available in print: Reserve Desk WL 100 A216p

Clinical Neuroanatomy
Waxman, Stephen G. ed. 25th ed., Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, 2003.
Also available in print: Level 2 WL 101 W3565

Educational Resources
Available in the Education Folder on Windows computers in the Reference Room and the Learning Resources Center

  • Interactive Brain Atlas
    This software contains 2-D and 3-D views of the brain from cadaver sections, MRI scans, and computer reconstructions. It is a good program to use when you want to see what a structure looks like and where it is in the brain. There isn't a lot of explanatory material, but there are Quick-time movies of reconstructions which provide a very effective way to visualize complex spatial relationships.

  • Interactive neuroanatomy: an atlas of structures, sections, and systems
    This program contains all 605 images from the Sixth Edition of Dr. Haines's neuroanatomy atlas, plus labels that can be turned on or off, multiple-choice testing, and Stedman's definitions of clinical terms. Images of internal spinal cord and brainstem morphology and of functional components, tracts, pathways, and systems can be rotated from anatomical to clinical orientations, enabling students to see exactly how the brain and its functional systems are viewed in the clinical setting. All images are presented in both PDF format for printing and JPEG format for downloading to PowerPoint.

  • Neuroanatomy Lab Assistant
    This software reviews the structural components of neuroanatomy with microscopic, radiologic and gross specimens. It includes a Lab Guide, Exams, Case Studies, and the Neurologic Exam. The Atlas section contains MRIs, CT Scans, and Angiograms.

  • Sylvius, Fundamentals of Human Neural Structure
    This program features colorized brains, functional information on labeled structures, audio pronunciation of neuroanatomical terms, and a self-quiz mode. It is comprised of Surface Anatomy, Sectional Anatomy, Brainstem Model, and Index modules, and includes a Pathways module focusing on the major neural connections, an Animations module comprised of QuickTime and QuickTime VR movies, and an enhanced Spinal Cord & Brainstem module featuring cross-sectional anatomy.
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