Research Guides: MS3 Clerkships: Information Resources: Surgery

Best Bets

Integrated online surgery resource includes videos, animations, full-text textbooks, surgical atlas, and board review materials. Current Consult Surgery can be downloaded to PDA.

Access Online

Integrated clinical information tool searches extensive full-text holdings for clinical answers in journal articles, books, and videos. Searchable by keyword as well as disease, finding, procedure or drug. Published by Elsevier. 2007 - Present.

Access Online

Recommended Resources

WISE-MD Surgical Modules
Surgery Shelf Exam via BoardVitals
Questions/answers to study for surgery shelf exam. Features include timed exam conditions, individualized study recommendations, and exam study tips. Instructions: Access BoardVitals and then create personal account.
Clerkship Corner
- Textbook recommendations that are suited for medical students
- Cases to prepare you for surgical situations you are likely to handle
- Q&A created for clerks
- Content organized by Organ Systems and Core Topics, helping you prep for the USMLE Step 2 or your shelf exams
Integrated Curriculum: Anatomy Modules - Surgery
Module designed to review clinically relevant anatomy through computer-based e-modules.

Research Articles

PubMed
Includes links to Himmelfarb's full-text journals and the Himmelfarb Library's EBM filters:
- Systematic Reviews
- Practice Guidelines
- Randomized Controlled Trials
- Cohort & Case Control
- Background / Reviews
MEDLINE
Includes links to Himmelfarb's full-text journals. To focus search for EBM articles:
-Limit to English and recent years
-Limit by age group if applicable for topic
-Limit by publication type:
- Controlled Clinical Trial
- Meta Analysis
- Multicenter Study
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Practice Guideline

Key Textbooks

Recommended

Current Surgical Therapy by John L. Cameron; Andrew M. Cameron
ISBN: 9780323376914
Publication Date: 2016-12-12

Himmelfarb availability: online.
Essentials of General Surgery and Surgical Specialties by LAWRENCE
Call Number: RD31 .L397 2019
ISBN: 9781496351043
Publication Date: 2018-12-06

Himmelfarb Availability: print
Recommended by clerkship director.
Mastery of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery by Holly R. Fischer (Illustrator); Gerald B. Zelenock (Editor); Thomas S. Huber (Editor); Louis M. Messina (Editor); Alan B. Lumsden (Editor); Gregory L. Moneta (Editor)
ISBN: 9780781753319
Publication Date: 2005-12-23
Sabiston Textbook of Surgery by Courtney M. Townsend; R. Daniel Beauchamp; B Mark Evers; Kenneth L. Mattox
Call Number: RD31 .T473 2017
ISBN: 978-0-323-29987-9
Publication Date: 2016-06-03

Himmelfarb availability: online and print.
Recommended by clerkship director.
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery by F. Brunicardi; Dana Andersen; Timothy Billiar; David Dunn; John Hunter; Jeffrey Matthews; Raphael E. Pollock
Call Number: RD31 .P88 2015
ISBN: 9780071796750
Publication Date: 2014-07-16

Availability: online & print
The Washington Manual of Surgery by Mary E. Klingensmith
Call Number: RD37 .W374 2016
ISBN: 9781496310781
Publication Date: 2015-12-28

Note: Himmelfarb availability: online and print.
Recommended by clerkship director.

Review

Case Files Surgery by Liu Toy
Call Number: RD34 .T69 2016
ISBN: 9781259585227
Publication Date: 2016-08-04

Locations: Book Stacks (Himmelfarb Basement Level) & Online (Click title to access)

Surgery Shelf Exam via BoardVitals
Questions/answers to study for surgery shelf exam. Features include timed exam conditions, individualized study recommendations, and exam study tips. Instructions: Access BoardVitals and then create personal account.

Clerkship Contacts

Clerkship Director

Juliet Lee, MD
jclee@mfa.gwu.edu
202-741-3334

Clerkship Coordinator

Angel Dixon
adixon@mfa.gwu.edu
202-741-2638