LINDA COSTANZO- a TRIBUTE

sga814 said:

With M1 classes coming to a close, I don't know how I would've gotten through Physio without her book. All the crap the profs recommended as reading was.... nonsense filled with formulae and jargon. Especially Berne and Levy . Dr. Costanzo put it in plain words and context that Medical Students, with the machine gunnery of information we're bombarded with, could easily understand. To be sure, some lectures went more in depth than the information presented in her book, but reading her book gives one the base necessary for destroying any other material.

All you VCU people- do you even KNOW how lucky you are to have her as a prof? Please thank her on behalf of America's medical students.

Anyways- Thank you Dr. Costanzo. Thank you.

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MSIV said:

I actually thought that her text was terrible. She explains basic physiologic principles well, but there is very little clinical correlation which is important to demonstrate how these principles are used, in a practical sense. It is good if used as a review book.

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DOCTORSAIB said:

I was lucky enough to have Dr.Constanzo as one of our Physiology professors during grad school at MCV/VCU. She is super-sweet and an amazing prof. She refused to use powerpoint. She thought it was pure laziness and not the best way to teach. She used the blackboard and made sure we understood the concept before moving on to the next topic.

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MSIV said:

I actually used a book called the "physiologic basis of primary care". From what I undertsand, Guyton's book is similar to this, ie much more clinical correlation to the practice of medicine.

After reading a chapter in costanzo, I had no idea how the information was applicable to treating patients. But as a review of basic physiology, it is good.

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DOCTORSAIB said:

I was lucky enough to have Dr.Constanzo as one of our Physiology professors during grad school at MCV/VCU. She is super-sweet and an amazing prof. She refused to use powerpoint. She thought it was pure laziness and not the best way to teach. She used the blackboard and made sure we understood the concept before moving on to the next topic.

Our course syllabus from grad school was condensed. The offspring: BRS Physiology. It really is a great review book. The world wouldn't be the same without BRS Physiology (and BRS Path). Our world, of course...

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TheCat said:

\Dude, physiology is what it is-the normal function of our body-clinicl physiology does not exist unless you do eegs or something for muscular disorders. Pathophysiology which is usually a 2nd year class is what covers all the clinicl stuff about physiology. Also if you learn the physio well there is no clinical case that should be hard to understand if you know what is going on.
Guyton also sucks ass for clinicals and presentation. I read boron/boulpaeps, guyton, costanzo and berne levy during 2nd year-I loved physio, took it a lot in undergrad and studied it a lot in medschool . I can assure everyone-there is nothing that is not in costanzo that other books have. I would say the only thing if you are set on having "clinical" stuff with your physio book-then pick up boulpaep/borns Medical Physiology-they have hundreds of clinical boxes in each chapter that is all pathology/pathophys. But I would not define a physio text book whether or not it has a bunch of clinicals cause that is not in the realm of physiology-like i said normal physiology is testing membrane potentials or eegs or stuff like that-ok so maybe if you have cystic fibrosis and a negative sweat chloride test and want to confirm the diag you could do a transepithelial membrane potential test over the nasal mucosa and that would technically be a medical application of pure physiology.
Bottom line i can assure you after reading every page of every main text-costanzo includes EVERYTHING-you will not miss one thing by only reading costanzo-and you are actualy wrong-it has a fair amount ofpathophys references.

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