Medicine Library — Index
Clinical and biomedical science — the structure and function of the human body, the mechanisms of disease, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness. The applied life-science library: builds on
Biology/(cell/molecular, neuroscience, immunology, genetics, microbiology),Chemistry/(medicinal chemistry, NMR), andPhysics/(imaging modalities), and feeds the medicalWalkthroughs/(MRI install, pharma fill-finish, FDA pipeline).
- Status: Tier 1 complete across the core disciplines (14 notes, authored 2026-06-02).
- Conventions: clinical material is non-sensational; pharmacokinetic, hemodynamic, and epidemiologic formulas in KaTeX (
$...$, LaTeX commands only); named landmarks with years.
Tier 1 — Basic medical sciences
| Topic | File | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Human anatomy | human-anatomy | the body’s structure, by system; regional/radiological/applied anatomy |
| Human physiology | human-physiology | homeostasis and the function of every organ system |
| Pathology & mechanisms of disease | pathology-and-mechanisms-of-disease | cell injury, inflammation, neoplasia, the general bases of disease |
| Pharmacology & therapeutics | pharmacology-and-therapeutics | pharmacodynamics & pharmacokinetics, drug classes, rational prescribing |
| Medical microbiology & infectious disease | medical-microbiology-and-infectious-disease | pathogens, host interaction, antimicrobials, AMR, the infectious syndromes |
| Clinical immunology & inflammation | clinical-immunology-and-inflammation | hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, immunodeficiency, transplant & tumor immunology |
| Medical genetics & genomics | medical-genetics-and-genomics | inheritance, chromosomal & complex disease, clinical genomics, precision medicine |
Tier 1 — Clinical medicine
| Topic | File | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Internal medicine & the organ systems | internal-medicine-and-the-organ-systems | clinical reasoning, EBM, and pulmonary/GI/renal/endocrine/heme/rheum disease |
| Cardiovascular medicine | cardiovascular-medicine | coronary disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, valvular & vascular disease |
| Neurology & psychiatry | neurology-and-psychiatry | stroke, neurodegeneration, epilepsy; the major psychiatric disorders & treatment |
| Oncology | oncology | diagnosis & staging, the treatment modalities, targeted & immuno-oncology |
| Surgery & perioperative medicine | surgery-and-perioperative-medicine | surgical principles, anesthesiology, the specialties, minimally invasive surgery |
Tier 1 — Population health and diagnostics
| Topic | File | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology & public health | epidemiology-and-public-health | disease frequency & association, study designs, screening, infectious-disease epi, public health |
| Medical imaging & diagnostics | medical-imaging-and-diagnostics | X-ray/CT/MRI/ultrasound/nuclear imaging, laboratory diagnostics |
Tier 2 — Specialty deep dives
| Topic | File | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobial therapy & stewardship | antimicrobial-therapy-and-stewardship-deep | PK/PD, the antibacterial classes by mechanism, resistance mechanisms & the ESKAPE/WHO threats, stewardship |
Tier 3 — Catalogs
- Tier 3 index
- drug-classes-catalog — ~300 agents across the therapeutic drug classes
- pathogens-catalog — ~175 clinically important human pathogens
- medical-specialties-catalog — ~95 medical & surgical specialties
Adjacent libraries
- neuroscience-foundations · immunology-foundations · genetics-and-genomics · cancer-biology — the basic biology beneath the clinical disciplines
- medicinal-and-photo-chemistry — drug design & medicinal chemistry
- nmr-spectroscopy-deep · nuclear-physics — the physics & chemistry behind medical imaging
- abnormal-psychology-and-psychopathology · clinical-psychology-and-psychotherapy — the psychological side of mental disorder
- probability-and-statistics — the statistics behind epidemiology & evidence-based medicine