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ACCP Publications Popular in Hollywood

Your colleagues at the recent Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Florida, discovered many valuable resources at the ever-popular On-site Bookstore. You can purchase the books that were the top sellers at the meeting for your own professional library by visiting www.accp.com/bookstore. Below are some of the most popular publications in Hollywood recently.

  • Clinical Pharmacist’s Guide to Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation was developed to bolster clinical pharmacists’ knowledge and confidence in their understanding of biostatistics. This guide is a helpful resource for improving your use of biostatistical tools to interpret the medical literature, thereby optimizing patient care, improving health outcomes, and generating hypotheses for research.
  • Nourishing the Soul of Pharmacy: Stories of Reflection is a collection of reflective essays that promote insight into the pharmacist’s role in patient care. Designed to enhance the reader’s empathy for patients and elicit deeper bonds among practitioners, these stories confirm care and compassion as essential ingredients of pharmacy’s continuing evolution as a health profession. This book is intended for a variety of audiences: practitioners, educators, and students as well as perhaps patients, caregivers, and health care professionals who seek a better understanding of pharmacists and the roles they perform.
  • Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program (PSAP 2013–2015 Series). ACCP’s premier home study series provides clinical pharmacists with pertinent therapeutic updates to enhance and assess their practice skills and improve patient outcomes. Updated with features such as enhanced online access, summary graphics, and multimedia elements, PSAP continues to be the premier home study tool for the pharmacotherapy specialist.
  • Clinical Faculty Survival Guide offers new clinical faculty practical information, advice, and encouragement for succeeding in the roles of practitioner, teacher, researcher, and scholar. A team of seasoned authors and reviewers provide direction for your successful career as a clinical faculty member. If you are a new faculty member, you will find this book helpful and easy to read. If you are a resident, fellow, or graduate student preparing to pursue an academic position, you will receive guidance and a head start on a long and successful career. And if you are a more seasoned faculty member serving as a mentor to younger colleagues, you will find the content useful for imparting career advice.

Also popular are these easy-to-use handbooks:

  • Pocket Guide to Critical Care Pharmacotherapy is an easy-to-follow bedside reference to step-by-step critical care pharmacotherapy. Based on both real patient care experiences and a review of the current medical literature, this text will assist clinicians in giving their patients optimal, evidence-based care. It covers the most common ailments observed in critically ill medical patients and uses an algorithmic approach, focusing on pharmacotherapeutics that clinicians with many degrees of training will be able to follow.
  • Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine. Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized loose-leaf handbook is one of the best-selling references for students, interns, and residents. In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, Pocket Medicine provides key clinical information about common problems in internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and rheumatology.

New to the bookstore and purchased by many of your colleagues, flash cards provide a helpful format for efficient studying.

  • Pharmacology Flash Cards provide concise, yet complete coverage of the study of pharmacology while offering a fun, fast, and portable way to review. The set contains 189 cards, with each card covering a specific disease or drug with high-yield facts in bold. Every card includes a clinical vignette.
  • Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Flash Cards are a quick and effective way to review the essential concepts of microbiology. These cards help you learn the medically important aspects of the subject and cover the basic and clinical aspects of bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, and infectious diseases. One side of the card features a clinical vignette that is a mini-case study of the disease, and the other side presents the etiology and epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment and prevention of the disorder.

Another always-popular group consists of the following guides, which provide quick, practical, and comprehensive advice on the use of antimicrobial agents:

  • The Johns Hopkins ABX Guide: Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases provides current, authoritative, and comprehensive information on antimicrobial agents, infectious disease, and commonly encountered pathogens in one portable volume. This must-have resource features expert recommendations, clinical and diagnostic decision-making tools, and drug-to-drug interactions. Designed for quick reference and comprehension, this handbook provides information in an easy-to-access format, facilitating the rapid application of knowledge at the point of care.
  • Antibiotic Basics for Clinicians: Choosing the Right Antibacterial Agent shows how to apply your knowledge of pharmacology and microbiology when selecting the appropriate antibiotic. Rather than relying on rote memorization, you will learn the underlying rationale for treating common infectious diseases and pathogens. The text focuses on antibacterial agents, an examination of individual antibiotics and antibiotic classes, and definitive and empiric therapies—providing a framework for prescription and clinical preparation for students as well as clinicians needing a quick reference or review.
  • Antibiotic Essentials is a leading antimicrobial/infectious disease pocket guide for clinicians. Practical, concise, and authoritative, Antibiotic Essentials is also a mini-ID book, discussing the diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases—including clinical presentations, diagnostic considerations, diagnostic pitfalls, and therapeutic considerations.

The ACCP Online Bookstore is your best source for publications in the practice areas of Therapeutics, Research and Outcomes Assessment, Teaching and Learning, Practice Development, and Leadership and Administration. Visit the bookstore Web site today to order copies of the titles most popular among your colleagues.