The booklist has been released, both required and supplemental. Current students any recommendations on supplemental books that you found useful?
Each person you ask will give you different advice, but I'll give it a shot:
Board Review Series Gross Anatomy
-First off, I never bought this book, but I borrowed from a friend a few times to do the practice questions, and that was helpful. It's useful because it's broken up into small, specific sections so that when you have an exam on the shoulder and upper arm, there are chapters on those specific areas that can help guide your reviewing.
The rest of these are for PBL and OPP, so you can definitely wait on these ones:
Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine (Lange medical series) by McPhee et. al.
-I love this book, and most of the people I've recommended it to have bought it as well. It's great for PBL since PBL stresses integration of the basic sciences, and integration is this book's strong suit. However, the new edition is expensive and used copies of the last (2005) edition are getting hard-to-find, so you might want to check out one of the copies in the library to see if it's something you like it before you buy it.
OMT Review by Savarese et. al.
-If you can find this for ~$30, go ahead and buy it. Otherwise, the OMT club here sells it as a fundraiser; annoyingly I don't think I got my copy until after the first OPP exam. Oh well. The class powerpoints and this book are all you need to pass the OPP class; I bought the required OPP textbooks (Ward, and DiGiovanni) and I regret it. I never read them anymore, and I'm a solid B student in that class.
For PBL, the question review books for Guyton physiology and Robbins Pathology are worth getting, if you set aside the time to go through them.
It never hurts to have a copy of First Aid for USMLE, as that will tell you what the bare minimum is for the boards. It's not incredibly useful in reviewing for your PBL exams though... at least, I didn't think it was. But it will help you organize what you learn as you learn it, which hopefully will pay off when boards roll around. No need to hurry off to buy this one, either.
The main problem with supplemental books is that you have to use them as additional reading to your required books, because the exam questions are based on what's in the required books. Supplemental books are only useful if they help you understand the concepts in your required books. Also, the library has enough copies of the supplemental books that you'll rarely run into problems finding a copy to read.
Hope that helps. I can comment further on the book list if somebody posts it on here.
EDIT: Never mind, I found it on our portal. I'll write something up later tonight.
