Ive always been curious about this. Do all med schools use the same text books? Or does each school use a different version written by different authors?
Are medical school text books the same for all med schools across the US?
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There are some classic textbooks but my experience over the past few years is that students depend less on textbooks and more on "up-to-date" (an electronic resource available through by subscription through the school library) and lecture notes.
Some of the classic textbooks are:
Goodman and Gilman (pharmacology)
Cecil (internal medicine)
Harrison's (internal medicine)
These books have been up-dated regularly over the years and are known by the names of the original author(s).
There are a number of resources for learning anatomy and I'm not sure that even within a given school there is a clear favorite
Some of the classic textbooks are:
Goodman and Gilman (pharmacology)
Cecil (internal medicine)
Harrison's (internal medicine)
These books have been up-dated regularly over the years and are known by the names of the original author(s).
There are a number of resources for learning anatomy and I'm not sure that even within a given school there is a clear favorite
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Yale gets special Yale textbooks from which they learn Yale medicine. This isn't taught to the state school plebs
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Are you kidding? I've known instances where different professors at the same school and discipline required different textbooks!
It's definitely different for each faculty member from school to school.
It's definitely different for each faculty member from school to school.
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what's a text book
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You won't really learn from text books in med school like you did in college. You'll be taught predominantly from a "syllabus" and lecture slides. And these will all be unique to the school. Textbooks will be secondary resources where you can look things up you didn't understand from the syllabus or lectures.
I would say all of the resources listed by LizzyM would be considered secondary resources not primary med school texts these days. I own several of those and doubt I've read more than a dozen pages of each. Don't buy any books before talking to upperclassmen, and then try to get them used.
However when you get to the point of studying from board review books, like first aid, pretty much everybody uses the same set of staples.
