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Study Resources for Medical Professional Students: Finding Reference Books

This guide is intended to help students interested in becoming a doctor, dentist, veterinarian, optometrist, pharmacist, physician assistant, or other medical profession.

Reference Books

Examples of reference books include dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and handbooks.

Reference books are found in the Reference Collection, or the green-labeled shelves in the library. You cannot check out reference books from the library, but you can look at them for as long as you are in the library, and you may take photo-copies of reference books. 

Some of our print reference books related to medical professions are:

Gale eBooks

You cannot checkout print reference books in the green section of the library, however, we do have a collection of digital reference books available to you through Gale eBooks (Reference eBooks).  Click on the button below to explore the collection!

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Take a look at the Gale eBooks on Medicine.

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