Would you say that many of the "other" books are in fact available via the digital library? More as a just in case one wanted to read them. I will likely be fine with the PowerPoints alone, but nice to know what is readily available vas what I'd have to physically visit the library to read.
Thanks for the input, as always!
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So... for most of the classes, they will have what you need to know in the Power Points alone. The information is there, but sometimes it is hard for me to put the information into context to get a deep understanding because they don't include the entire picture sometimes in the lectures. There is a difference between understanding and memorizing. For me, it is easier to read the entire chapter in the physiology book. For example, before studying lecture #1 of the renal block, I had already read the entire renal chapter in Costanzo so I had an idea of what was going to be discussed. That way I can get the "whole picture" of what is going on in one pass of the slides and can kinda make a story in my head with the information. Then, when you are studying the lecture slides everything makes much more sense because you kinda have a framework to work off...does this make sense kinda? This is the way I do it. I think
@AlteredScale and
@Higherprimate do this as well?
For our last block, the slides were NOT good to study from alone because they were just a bunch of random facts here and there. If you can't connect the dots on why "X fact" is important, you are gonna have a BAD TIME trying to answer questions regarding a patient who comes in presenting a certain way and using these "random facts" to draw conclusions.
You guys will figure it out once you get here and start going through classes. It took me two blocks to really figure out what works for me. Also, each professor is going to be different. The people I study with, and I, have learned that if we have certain professors, we should just read the book instead of trying to learn from the Power Point slides. Other professors it is ok to study only the PP slides.
Here are a list of books I would get FOR SURE for the first few classes:
MCM (Medical biochem,this doesn't mean "man crush Monday" guys)
- Medical Biochemistry by Panini is good to have as a hard copy because again, you can see an entire pathway and see the entire picture instead of choppy slides. Also, many of the professors for biochemistry take questions out of this book and/or have similar questions, so doing the practice questions is key.
HDM (immunology)
-For this class, I think you would be fine just using the lecture slides.
MSK (musculoskeletal)
- Get the hard copy of Human Gross Anatomy by Dr. Olinger in our bookstore. It has great pictures of real bodies + drawings side by side. He also includes clinical notes in the book. Dr. Olinger is an anatomy professor here and so when he teaches anatomy, he takes stuff straight out of his book. Therefore, instead of studying his slides, I just look at his textbook. I use his book for EVERY block when there is an anatomy component.
-Get Clinically Oriented Anatomy (.pdf or hardcopy). Many questions for MSK are straight out of the "blue boxes, clinical boxes" in this book so you NEED to read them somehow.
Cardiopulmonary/Renal/Endo/Repro/GI
- #1 is Physiology by Costanzo. You will hear this name all throughout medical school as it is one of the biggest physio books out there. Get this book as a hard copy or .pdf and read each chapter when you go through each block. Also, do the practice questions after each chapter. This is KEY.
-Another good book to get for anything related to embryology (which you will have in every block as well is Medical Embryology by Langman. Like I said, sometimes it is hard to put embryo into context, so I like to read the chapter in here before trying to hit the slides.
This is all I can think of for now...let me know if you have any questions.
