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DoCS 2025 Course Guide

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DoCS Course Books

Required:

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 13th edition by Lynn S. Bickley
ISBN: 9781496398178

Publication Date: 2021
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination by Lynn S. Bickley
ISBN: 9781496398178

Publication Date: 2021
Smith's Patient Centered Interviewing: an Evidence-Based Method, 4th edition by Auguste H. Fortin; Richard M. Frankel; Robert C. Smith; Francesca C. Dwamena; Brenda L. Lepisto
ISBN: 9781259644627

Publication Date: 2019

Recommended:

McGee's Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis, 6th edition by Steven McGee
ISBN: 9780443250132

Publication Date: 2026
Basic and Clinical Biostatistics, 5th edition by Susan White
ISBN: 9781260455366

Publication Date: 2020
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians, 6th edition by Bernard Lo
ISBN: 9781975103545

Publication Date: 2020
Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice by Mitchell D. Feldman and John F. Christensen
Call Number: WM 425 B41915 2008 (Reserve)

ISBN: 9781260142686

Publication Date: 2020

Evidence-Based Point of Care

Evidence-based resources to inform clinical decision making

Clinical Overviews (in Clinical Key)

Essential Evidence Plus

Evidence-based, point-of-care clinical decision support system that gives you access to over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and summaries
GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network)

Resource for data on infectious diseases, including outbreaks, distribution, pathogens, and drugs/vaccines. Provides tools for identifying bacteria, diagnosing disease, and visualizing epidemiological data. Updated daily.

Exam Review - USMLE

StatPearls
Provides test banks for NCLEX-RN; PANCE/PANRE and other PA test banks; USMLE Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Radiology Technology, and Family Medicine

Also includes test banks for EMS-EMT, LPN LVN NCLEX PN, and Pharmacy
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PANCE and USMLE Review

Review for USMLE (step 1, 2, 3); PANCE/PANRE; Medical Subject Reviews, and Medical Certification. Click for Quick Guide.

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