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Core Books: First Year Curriculum Book List

Fundamentals of Biomedical Science

Fundamentals of Biomedical Science (BMS 6031)

Course Directors: Drs. Michelle Lizotte-Waniewski, Vijaya Iragavarapu, and Ewa Wojcikiewicz.

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Required Books

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 16e by Todd W. Vanderah
ISBN: 9781260463309

Publication Date: 2023-11-21

*16th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via AccessMedicine.
Histology: a Text and Atlas, 9e by Wojciech Pawlina
ISBN: 9781975181512

Publication Date: 2023-09-15

*9th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via LWW Health Library.
The Immune System, 5e by Peter Parham
Call Number: QR181 .P335 2021

ISBN: 9780393533378

Publication Date: 2021-03-22

*4 print copies 5th edition available via the FAU Libraries Reserves-- see the Service Desk to check out in 7 day increments.
Langman's Medical Embryology, 15e by T. W. Sadler
ISBN: 9781975179960

Publication Date: 2023-01-13

*15th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via LWW Health Library.
Lippincott Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry, 8e by Abali; Cline; Franklin; Viselli
ISBN: 9781975155063

Publication Date: 2021-04-20

*8th edition available via LWW Health Library.
Medical Microbiology, 9e by Patrick R. Murray; Ken S. Rosenthal; Michael A. Pfaller
ISBN: 9780323673228

Publication Date: 2020-03-10

*9th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey.
Medical Physiology, 3e by Walter F. Boron; Emile L. Boulpaep
ISBN: 9781455743773

Publication Date: 2016-05-05

*3rd edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey.
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6e by Bruce Alberts; Alexander Johnson; Julian Lewis; David Morgan; Martin Raff; Keith Roberts; Peter Walter
ISBN: 9780815344322

Publication Date: 2014-11-18

* 6th edition available via Proquest Ebook Central with a 3 user simultaneous limit.
* 3 copies 7th edition available in the Wimberly Library Course Reserves
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 7e by Bruce Alberts; Rebecca Heald; Tim Hunt (Supplement by); Alexander Johnson; David Morgan; Martin Raff; Keith Roberts; Peter Walter; John Wilson (Supplement by)
Call Number: QH581.2 .A43 2022

ISBN: 9780393884821

Publication Date: 2022-02-18

* 3 physical copies of the 7th edition available on reserve at the Wimberly Library Access Services Desk.
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease by Vinay Kumar; Abul K. Abbas; Jon C. Aster
ISBN: 9780323531139

Publication Date: 2020-06-15

*10th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey.
*11th edition now available online.
Thompson and Thompson Genetics and Genomics in Medicine, 9th ed
ISBN: 9780323547628

Publication Date: 2023-08-11

*9th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey.
Weir and Abrahams' Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy by Jonathan D. Spratt; Lonie R. Salkowski; Marios Loukas; Tom Turmezei; Jamie Weir; Peter H. Abrahams
ISBN: 9780702079269

Publication Date: 2020-09-18

*6th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey.

Required Books - Anatomy

Moore's Essential Clinical Anatomy, 7e by Anne M. R. Agur; Arthur F. Dalley II
ISBN: 9781975174248

Publication Date: 2023-03-08

*7th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via LWW Health Library.
Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach, 8e by Frank H. Netter
ISBN: 9780323680424

Publication Date: 2022-04-11

*8th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey.
Gray's Clinical Photographic Dissector of the Human Body, 2e by Marios Loukas; Brion Benninger; R. Shane Tubbs
ISBN: 9780323544177

Publication Date: 2018-10-23

*2nd edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey.
* 3rd edition available via ClinicalKey.

Recommended Books - Anatomy

Gray's Anatomy for Students, 5e by Drake, Richard L., PhD, FAAA
ISBN: 9780323934237

Publication Date: 2024

*5th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via ClinicalKey
Gray's Atlas of Anatomy, 3e by Richard L. Drake; A. Wayne Vogl; Adam W. M. Mitchell; Richard Tibbitts; Paul Richardson
ISBN: 9780323636391

Publication Date: 2020-02-18

*3rd edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via LWW Health Library
Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 9e by Arthur F. Dalley II; Anne M. R. Agur
ISBN: 9781975154066

Publication Date: 2022-03-25

*9th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via LWW Health Library.
Netter's Clinical Anatomy, 5e by John T. Hansen
ISBN: 9780323826624

Publication Date: 2022-03-03

*5th edition available online with unlimited simultaneous users via Clinical Key

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