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hi ,

I'm an undergraduate medical student from egypt , I had been recently having difficulties with my study, I were'nt doing good , and after I thought thoroughly about it I decided that I want to be a doctor and I want to continue my study as a medical student and I realised that I needed to change all my lifestyle as a whole, I treated myself from comptuer games addiction, I stopped my computer graphics design mania, I began to focus more on scientific readings and generaly I really started for the first time to think about my future, I have got alot of changes going on in my life in the last 4 months, and I want that "awakening" to continue , but the problem is that the educational creed in my college is far out-dated, most of our curriculums is what you have been studying in america in the 80s, and the way of teaching itself is really bad, still just concentrating for the most part on "memorizing" huge amounts of data and making me feel like a hard-disk not a future-doctor! so I was convinced that the only way to keep myself evolving is to get education that helps me evolve, so I started reading about new medical achievement from some scientific magazines and from the internet, but I just feel this isn't enough , so I wanted to get some advice from you, I am going to study internal medicine and pediatric medicine for this year so,

what I want in short is :
1- what're the most popular books on internal medecine and pediatric medicine?
2- is there anyway to get up-to-date medical journals on these 2 topics and what are the most popular journals? how much does it cost? is there anyway to get reliable free journals?

thank you.
 
I don't know about pediatrics, but two of the most popular textbooks on internal medicine are Harrison's and Cecil's. Probably the two best journals to keep up-to-date in IM are the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. JAMA is free if you join the American Medical Association, I don't know the cost if you don't join. The New England Journal has a special subscription rate for students and residents.

Those are probably some good places to start. Others may have more recommendations.
 
I would suggest Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics as well as the Harriet Lane handbook, as they are the standard books for peds residents. You might also subscribe to uptodate.com, a helpful website with thoroughly "up to date" medical information in an easy-to-read, review format.
 
yea , thanks alot ,


are these books available on amazon ? and by the way does amazon have international delivery service ?

thank you again
:luck:
 
Dr_Amr,
Here are a few amazon.com book inks. Check their site for shipping information, however, I can almost guarantee that they ship books internationally.

Harriet Lane 17th Edition: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...104-5559146-9715906?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...104-5559146-9715906?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Harrison's Internal Medicine
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...104-5559146-9715906?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Good luck.
 
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