Merck Manual, is this useful?

[exmissionary]

Does anyone use the Merck Manual? As a premed student I find it very informational, but is it a thing of the past? I understand it has been a classic book for a medical library but it doesn't seem to be on most medical school textbook lists.

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[Long Dong]

Does anyone use the Merck Manual? As a premed student I find it very informational, but is it a thing of the past? I understand it has been a classic book for a medical library but it doesn't seem to be on most medical school textbook lists.

Never used it as a med student. Used it tons of times as an intern, at least the version that is on my PDA to look things up when I'm in a hurry and not able to look something up on up to date.

 

[omental caKe]

i used it quite heavily for my first 2 years of med school. the online articles are very helpful too. if you like it, keep using it since you're already familiar with it.

 

[humuhumu]

I used the PDA version virtually every day during the 2nd year of med school. Now I still refer to it frequently as a 3rd year (along with other resources like 5 Minute Consult and UpToDate). It's a great place to turn for a "first pass" on practically any topic.

 

[jon0013]

as much as people love to hate on wikipedia it has been a great resource for slackers like me who hate text books 👍...uptodate is also solid if you are an overachiever

 

[Old_Mil]

Does anyone use the Merck Manual? As a premed student I find it very informational, but is it a thing of the past? I understand it has been a classic book for a medical library but it doesn't seem to be on most medical school textbook lists.

I think it's an excellent book and I find it a heck of a lot more useful than Harrisons to tell you the truth.

 

[PicaSSo MD]

Every medical students or doctors should have this book... Pretty functional and useful 🙄

 

[Law2Doc]

Does anyone use the Merck Manual? As a premed student I find it very informational, but is it a thing of the past? I understand it has been a classic book for a medical library but it doesn't seem to be on most medical school textbook lists.

It was big back in the day when pharmaceutical companies were allowed to give med students free gifts such as books. These days it has more or less fallen by the wayside in favor of a variety of PDA and online services. If you have access to uptodate, pocket medicine and epocrates, that probably covers you for the wards.

 

[Mattchiavelli]

Merck Manual worked best for me when I was an MS1 and we had problem-based learning cases that were very clinical. We all barely knew anything and it's helpful in that regard. I've never used it on wards b/c I used epocrates and that pocket medicine manual. Epocrates is the giver of life and will become your best friend. If I need to look something up I go to UpToDate [or the hated DynaMed, which our school used to replace UpToDate but enough staff got honked that we're going back to UpToDate]. Emedicine is I think a better encyclopedia-type resource that I used pretty frequently 3rd and 4th years- it's kind of like wikipedia's older and more responsible sibling.

 

[Hemichordate]

It was big back in the day when pharmaceutical companies were allowed to give med students free gifts such as books. These days it has more or less fallen by the wayside in favor of a variety of PDA and online services. If you have access to uptodate, pocket medicine and epocrates, that probably covers you for the wards.

Why is it illegal for companies to give books to students as gifts? 😕

 

[xanthomondo]

Why is it illegal for companies to give books to students as gifts? 😕

Because our poverty = easy persuasion

 

[gravitywave]

Merck Manual worked best for me when I was an MS1 and we had problem-based learning cases that were very clinical. We all barely knew anything and it's helpful in that regard. I've never used it on wards b/c I used epocrates and that pocket medicine manual. Epocrates is the giver of life and will become your best friend. If I need to look something up I go to UpToDate [or the hated DynaMed, which our school used to replace UpToDate but enough staff got honked that we're going back to UpToDate]. Emedicine is I think a better encyclopedia-type resource that I used pretty frequently 3rd and 4th years- it's kind of like wikipedia's older and more responsible sibling.

wait, what's wrong with DynaMed?

 

[moath roubi]

I think that is the best medical book and is the superpower of oxford handbook of clinical medicine ..
Merck manual is comprehensive and have the most recent medical information in all topic .. It is necessary for all medical student ..

 

[DermViser]

I think that is the best medical book and is the superpower of oxford handbook of clinical medicine ..
Merck manual is comprehensive and have the most recent medical information in all topic .. It is necessary for all medical student ..

It's been 6 years. I'm sure the OP has figured it out by now.