Required and Recommended Textbooks, 2025-2026

Student Year

Element

Title

Price

Print Copy Available in Library?

Electronic

Copy

Available from

Library?

Notes

MS1 and MS2

CMC

Bates' Guide to Physical

Examination; Lynn S Bickley; 978-1496398178.

13^th Edition, 2021.

128.50

Yes

Yes

The Library also has  

Bates Visual Guide to Physical

Examination

MS1 and MS2

CMC

The Patient History:

Evidence-Based Approach (Tierney, The Patient History) [Paperback].

Henderson, Mark.,

Smetana, Gerald., Tierney,

Lawrence     978-

0071624947. 2^nd Edition,

2012

Yes

Yes

MS1 and MS2

CIC

Gordis, L. (2014). Epidemiology (Fifth edition.). Philadelphia, PA:

Elsevier Saunders. 2014

Yes

Yes

(limited to 1 user at a

time)

Library has 7^th edition in print

Recommend edition 5e - Epidemiology with STUDENT

CONSULT Online Access

MS1 and MS2

FS Blocks, F25, W26, S26

Block Readers and Workbooks

No 

No 

•       PDF will be posted on your iROCKET calendar  

•       Purchase at Documents, Media and Mail at UCSF. 

•       FS Coordinators will send out ordering info to students

MS1

Groundschool (GS) F25

Wheater's Functional

Histology, 6th Edition - A

Text and Colour Atlas 

Yes

No

Library has 7^th edition in print  

by Barbara Young (Editor), John W. Heath (Editor)

MS1

Justice &

Advocacy in

Medicine

(JAM), W/S26

Book Club Book

More information via the iROCKET course forum closer to course date. Contact Dr. Megha Garg for more information.

MS1

Pathogens and

Host Defenses

(PHD) S26

Basic Immunology, 5th

Edition by Abul K. Abbas,

Andrew H.H. Lichtman and

Shiv Pillai 

$69.95

Yes

Yes

(limited to 3 users at

a time)  

Library has 6^th edition in print

Library has 7^th edition in print

MS1

Pathogens and

Host Defenses

(PHD) S26

Review of Medical

Microbiology and

Immunology, 18^th edition by Warren Levinson, Peter Chin-Hong, Elizabeth A.

Joyce, Mehrdad

Matloubian, Manjiree Karandikar, Luis A Rubio &

Brian Schwartz.

$50-$69

(est)

Yes

Yes

MS 1 and MS2

FS Blocks, F25, W26, S26

B. K. Katzung: Basic &

Clinical Pharmacology,

16^th Edition, 2023

$70.00

No

Yes

Library also has previous editions in print  

MS1 and MS2

FS Blocks, F25, W26, S26

Thompson and Thompson's

Genetics and Genomics in

Medicine, Ronald Cohn,

Stephen Scherer, Ada Hamosh. 9th Edition, Elsevier, 2023.

$45-$50  on

Amazon  

Yes

No

Library also has 7^th edition ebook, limited to one user at a time

New and Used copies can be purchased from Amazon HERE  

Student Year

Course/Elemen

t

Title

Price

Print

Copy

Available in

Library?

Electronic

Copy

Available from

Library?

Notes

MS1

Justice &

Advocacy in

Medicine (JAM),

F24 

Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice.

5^th Edition 2019.

55.00

No

Yes

Library also has 3^rd edition in print

MS1

Justice &

Advocacy in

Medicine (JAM),

W25 

The Health Care Handbook

15.99

No

Yes

Library also has 2^nd edition in print

Can be purchased from

Amazon

MS1

Renal, Endocrine, GI and Nutrition

(REGN) W26

Medical Physiology, 2e - with

STUDENT CONSULT

Access 

By Walter F. Boron, MD,

PhD and Emile L. Boulpaep,

MD; 978-1437717532. 2e,

2012. Saunders

95.99

Yes

Yes (3^rd edition, limited to 3 users at a time)

Library also has 3^rd edition in print

MS2

Brain, Mind and

Behavior (BMB)

F25

Neuroanatomy Through

Clinical Cases (Paperback) by Hal Blumenfeld 0878930604. 2^nd Edition, 2010.

$67.95

Yes

No

Library has 3^rd edition in print

MS2

Brain, Mind and

Behavior (BMB)

F25

Current Diagnosis &

Treatment: Psychiatry, Michael H. Ebert, James F.

Leckman, Ismene L.

Petrakis, eds. ISBN 978-

$73

No

Yes (4^th edition)

Library also has previous editions in print  

0071754422, 3^rd Edition,

2019

MS2

Brain, Mind and

Behavior (BMB)

F25

Diagnostic and Statistical

Manual of Mental Disorders,

5th Edition: DSM-5,

American Psychiatric

Association, 2013

New from Amazon:

$94.30

Used, about $30 (plus shipping)

Yes

Yes

Library also has DSM-5-TR ebook

MS1 and MS2

FS Blocks, F25, W26, S26

Robbins & Cotran Pathologic

Basis of Disease with

Student Consult. Vinay Kumar MBBS, MD, Abul K.

Abbas MBBS, Jon C. Aster

MD, PhD, 10th edition, 2020,

Elsevier. ISBN

9780323531139

$124.99

Yes

No

Library ordered 11^th edition in print

MS1 and MS2

Life Stages (LS) F25

Langman's Medical

Embryology by Thomas

Sadler ISBN

9781975179960. 15^th Edition, 2023. 

$86.99

Yes

No

MS1 and MS2

All courses in

MS1 and MS2

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas:

A Guide for Clinicians

$59.95

No

Yes

Library also has 5^th edition in print

MS1 and MS2

All courses in

MS1 and MS2

Precision Medicine: A Guide to Genomics in Clinical Practice by Jeanette J.

McCarthy and Bryce A.

Mendelsohn, McGraw Hill

2017, 

ISBN-10: 1259644138

$90.00 

New & Used available on

Amazon

Yes

Yes

MS1 and MS2

Anatomy Lab in

all courses F25, W26, S26

Atlas of Clinical Gross

Anatomy 

By Kenneth Moses, MD,

$84.95

Yes

Yes

(limited to

*Choose one of the 7 listed recommended Anatomy texts to supplement 

John C. Banks, PhD, Pedro

B. Nava, PhD and Darrell

Petersen; 524 pages, ISBN10:  0323037445. 2^nd Edition,

May 2012.*

1 user at a time)

MS1 and MS2

Anatomy Lab in

all courses F25,

W26, S26

Atlas of Human Anatomy with STUDENT CONSULT

Access, By  Frank H. Netter, MD ISBN-10: 1437709702. 5^th Edition, May 2010* 

$79.95

Yes

Yes (7^th edition, limited to 3 users at a time)

Library has 8^th edition in print

Library also has Netter

Presenter

*Choose one of the 7 listed recommended Anatomy texts to supplement 

MS1 and MS2

Anatomy Lab in

all courses F25,

W26, S26

Atlas of Anatomy, By Anne

Gilroy, Brian MacPherson,

Lawrence Ross, Michael

Schuenke, 672 pages, 

ISBN-10: 160406062X. 2^nd

Edition, April 2012.*

$74.95

Yes

No

Library ordered 5^th edition in print

Library has 4^th edition in print  

*Choose one of the 7 listed recommended Anatomy texts to supplement 

MS1 and MS2

Anatomy Lab in

all courses F25,

W26, S26

Grant's Atlas of Anatomy

(Grant, John Charles

Boileau/Grant's Atlas of Anatomy)  by Anne M.R.

Agur (Editor), J.C. Boileau Grant, Arthur F. Dalley (Editor); ISBN-10:

0781770556, 834 pages.

13^th Edition. February 2012.*

$79.95

Yes

No

Library has 16^th edition in print  

*Choose one of the 7 listed recommended Anatomy texts to supplement 

MS1 and MS2

Anatomy Lab in

all courses F25,

W26, S26

Gray's Anatomy for Students

- with STUDENT CONSULT

Access  

By Richard Drake, PhD,

Wayne Vogl, PhD and Adam

$81.95

Yes

No

Mitchell, MBBS, FRCS,

FRCR

MS1 and MS2

Anatomy Lab in

all courses F25,

W26, S26

Color Atlas of Anatomy: A

Photographic Study of the

Human Body (Hardcover) by

Johannes W. Rohen, Chihiro Yokochi, Elke Lutjen-Drecoll;

ISBN-10:  0781790131. 7^th

Edition, 2010*

$84.50

Yes

No

*Choose one of the 7 listed recommended Anatomy texts to supplement 

MS1 and MS2

PRIME-US: F25, W26, S26

Medical Management of

Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations.  Talmadge

E. King, Jr., Margaret Wheeler.   ISBN 

0071443312. 2007

$49.95

Yes

Yes (2^nd edition)

•       Library has 2^nd edition in

print

•       PRIME program will purchase this book for PRIME students

MS1 and MS2

PRIME-US: F25, W26, S26

Gordis, L. (2014).

Epidemiology (Fifth edition.).

Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier

Saunders. 2014

Yes

Yes

(limited to 1 user at a

time)

Library has 7^th edition in print

Recommend edition 5e - Epidemiology with STUDENT

CONSULT Online Access

MS1 and

MS2

CMC

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 management process to solve problems, gain agreement, mentor, and lead. Shook, J.1^st edition, 2008.

New, $50.00 Rentals from $22.73.

Yes

No

Can be purchased through Amazon here

MS1 and MS2

CMC

Symptom to Diagnosis: An Evidence Based

Guide; Scott D.C. Stern,

Adam S. Cifu, Diane

Altkorn. 3^rd Edition

$61.00

No

Yes (4^th edition)

Library also has 1^st edition in print

MS1 and MS2

CMC

Health Systems Science. Skochelak, S. 1^st edition, 2016. 

New, $56.42

Rentals from

$22.25

Yes

No

Library has  2^nd edition in print

Can be purchased through Amazon here.

MS1 and MS2

CIC

Browner, W. (2022).

Designing Clinical

Research (Fifth Edition.) 

LWW

$47.99

No

Yes

MS1 and MS2

CIC

T. Newman, M. Kohn.

(2020). Evidence-Based

Diagnosis: An

Introduction to Clinical

Epidemiology (Second

Edition). Cambridge

University Press

$38.33

No

Yes