# Recommended Clerkship Readings/Texts * **\*Step Up to Medicine**: Outstanding resource. Outline-format. Very thorough. Covers all topics on the shelf, and helpful for reference during other clerkships as well. * **\*UpToDate Online**: It summarizes the best clinical evidence that dictates the current standard of care for almost anything you can think of. This is highly used by housestaff, and can be a very useful starting point for your EBM assignments (you cannot cite UpToDate articles in EBM assignments, but you can use their citations and link out to the original papers they’ve cited). * **\*WhiteBook:** Massachusetts General Hospital Dept of Medicine Housestaff App: * **\*Clinical Problem Solvers** * Wiki Journal Club * Open Evidence * AMBOSS * Qbank (UWorld) * **Pocket Medicine (by M. Sabatine)**: Excellent pocket reference book for quick review of work up, differential diagnosis, treatment. Highly used by housestaff. * **Medicine Recall**: Question and answer format, typical pimping questions series. Fairly useful for rounds, not so much for the shelf. * **Andreoli and Carpenter’s Cecil Essentials of Medicine, 9th Edition**. This soft-cover book is a condensed version of Cecil’ s Textbook of Medicine (which you are not required to have). Cecil’s Essentials is the best reviewed text of its kind, and it is well written and readable. * **Internal Medicine Essentials Text and Questions**: The textbook is written for students going through the clerkship and is concise and clearly written. The question book provides over 500 self-assessment questions to help learn and reinforce key concepts and prepare for the NBME subject exam. Both are available via the library: **\*=** current students recommend --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://ismms-md-program.gitbook.io/medinfoapp/legacy-clerkships/inpatient-medicine/recommended-clerkship-readings-texts.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.