Neurology Clerkship Educational Resources

Introductory Neurology Textbooks

  • Clinical Neurology Simon RP, Aminoff MJ, Greenberg DA.
  • Blueprints in Neurology. Blackwell Science, Inc. Drislane FW et al.
  • Introduction to Clinical Neurology, Third Ed, Butterworth Heineman 2005. Gelb DJ.

Pocket Neurology Reference Books

  • Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology. Flaherty AW.
  • Neurology (House Officer Series), Seventh Ed. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2004. Weiner HL, Levitt LP, Rae-Grant A.
  • Manual of Neurologic Therapeutics. Seventh Ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2004. Samuels MA
  • On Call Neurology. WB Saunders, Second Ed, 2001. Marshall RS and Mayer SA.
  • Neurology Secrets, Fourth Ed. Hanley & Belfus, Inc., Philadelphia, 2004. Loren A. Rolak.

Reference Neurology Textbooks

  • Adams and Victor Textbook of Neurology, Ropper AH, Samuels MA, Klein JP.
  • Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1994. Rowland LP.
  • Office Practice of Neurology, Samuels, MA and Feske, SK.
  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine.

Review and/or Question Books for Neurology Board/Shelf Exams

  • Underground Clinical Vignettes: Neurology, Classic Clinical Cases for USMLE Step 2 and Clerkship, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Bhushan, V, et al
  • NMS Review book, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Bk&CD-Rom edition, 2002. Rosner, MH and Lazar, AE
  • First Aid for the Neurology Clerkship, McGraw-Hill, 2002. Stead, L

Online Resources

Personal Accounts of Neurologic Disease

  • The man who mistook his wife for a hat: And other clinical tales. Oliver Sacks.
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Jean-Dominique Bauby.
  • Tuesdays with Morrie. M. Albom.
  • Brainstorms: Epilepsy in Our Words – Personal Accounts of Living with Seizures. Raven Press, 1993. Schacter SC.
  • Still Me. Christopher Reeve.
  • Waist High in the World – A Life Among the Nondisabled. Beacon Press, Boston. 1996. Nancy Mairs.

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