Best Recommended Books for Orthopaedic Surgery


These are the most recommended and best orthopaedic surgery books for medical students, residents and attendings by surveying many of the US residency program directors and faculty. This list is intended to be a first aid and a guide for the medical students, orthopedic surgery residents and attendings to the books which they need to get to ace in there rotations and practice.

The list is divided into four categories. The first one is for the pocket books that you can carry at any level of education or practice. The second list is for the orthopaedic surgery residents and attendings for their daily reading and reference.  The third group is for medical students doing their orthopaedics rotations, for shelf exams and for those going for interviews, you will be asked which books you have on the shelf so be prepared. The fourth group is for the people preparing for the orthopaedic surgery board exam.


Pocket Books

Tarascon Pocket Orthopaedica

Handbook of Fractures

Manual of Orthopaedics


Books for Orthopaedics Surgery Residents and Attendings

Orthopaedic Knowledge Update

Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics

Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach

The Orthopaedic Physical Exam

The Adult Hip 3-Volume Package: Arthroplasty and its Alternatives and Hip Preservation Surgery

Rockwood, Green, and Wilkins' Fractures in Adults and Children Package

Lovell and Winter's Pediatric Orthopaedics, Level 1 and 2


Books for Medical Students for Orthopaedic Surgery rotations

Orthopedics Made Ridiculously Simple

Netter's Concise Orthopaedic Anatomy


Books for Orthopaedic Surgery Board Exam Review

Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review

Miller's Review of Orthopaedics

Orthopedic Secrets


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