Optional PCC Textbooks & Resources

There is no officially recommended textbook for this course; rather, we suggest that you concentrate on the resources listed in Learning Objectives and Competencies Matrix. If you do find that textbooks enhance your learning, the following are resources that other students have used:

Goroll AH, May LA, Mulley AG. Primary Care Medicine (5th Ed). Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2006.

A problem-oriented textbook addressing adult medicine.

Reilly BM. Practical Strategies in Outpatient Medicine. 2nd Ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1991.

Not a comprehensive textbook, but instead offers detailed, readable, and practical discussion of 22 selected common problems in adult ambulatory care. Has not been updated since 2nd edition however.

Barker LR, Burton JR, Zieve PD. Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, (6th Ed). Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 2002. (1900 pp)

A readable and coherently organized text; useful overall for general internal medicine and family medicine issues, but doesn't address pediatric issues. The first section, "Issues of general concern in ambulatory care," could stand alone as a treatise on the craft of practicing primary care medicine.