best reference book for ~$200 or less

[digitalsideburn]

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My internship has offered to buy me a reference book for my ophtho residency that starts in July. The budget is $200 or less. Any recommendations? I have heard that these two are good:

Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology by David Spalton
Clinical Ophthalmology by Kanski

I'm looking for something that I will actually use during residency, versus a book that will likely just collect dust. Any advice from current/former residents?

 

[MstaKing10]

Kanski or Yanoff are both quite good reference books but probably more than the $200 limit. I've rarely used them though and your medical or ophthalmology library usually has a copy. Getting a review book such as Friedman's and a question book such as Chern's might be more worth your while.

My 2 cents.

My internship has offered to buy me a reference book for my ophtho residency that starts in July. The budget is $200 or less. Any recommendations? I have heard that these two are good:

Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology by David Spalton
Clinical Ophthalmology by Kanski

I'm looking for something that I will actually use during residency, versus a book that will likely just collect dust. Any advice from current/former residents?

 

[FutureCTDoc]

Will's and The textbook of ophthalmology, which is older, but still excellent. Another guide which is ancient and has out of date treatments, but has wonderful plates and describes the symptoms very well is Charles May's Diseases of the eye which is free on google books. While it's a century old, the descriptions of how diseases present are exceedingly clear and I've yet to see something match this.

 

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My internship has offered to buy me a reference book for my ophtho residency that starts in July. The budget is $200 or less. Any recommendations? I have heard that these two are good:

Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology by David Spalton
Clinical Ophthalmology by Kanski

I'm looking for something that I will actually use during residency, versus a book that will likely just collect dust. Any advice from current/former residents?

i use both that you listed very frequently. probably the kanski book more in the beginning of my first year and less so since. an atlas is a great source to have. both likely will cost more than $200. your program will likely give you the will's manual..you might want to contact them, if not then definitely get a will's manual. i would also recommend the friedman review manual, it's probaly $60 and a great review source.

 

[azzarah]

My program gave us the academy series and the Wills manual for free. I believe most residency programs do the same thing.

I'd get one of the review books, such as Chern or board review pearls or something like that....

 

[JMK2005]

Check out http://www.merckmedicus.com/


Wills and Yanoff is available online. I'd recommed you get one of the review books since it's nice to have your own copy.

 

[Mirror Form]

My internship has offered to buy me a reference book for my ophtho residency that starts in July. The budget is $200 or less. Any recommendations? I have heard that these two are good:

Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology by David Spalton
Clinical Ophthalmology by Kanski

I'm looking for something that I will actually use during residency, versus a book that will likely just collect dust. Any advice from current/former residents?

Those two books are both excellent. If you had to choose, I'd definitely go with Kanski. However, I own both and they were both very helpful for studying for the OKAPS and boards.

Kanski is the kind of book that is great for anybody at any level of training. An intern would be able to understand it, but it's still useful for attendings. Spalton is great too, but it's more of just an atlas.

 

[digitalsideburn]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I ended up getting the Kanski book- it looks great. It kind of reminds me of the Robbins path book I used a lot as a med student, except the focus is entirely eyes.

 

[echinoderm]

seems like a lot of the popular books were published around 2004.. any word on new editions?? someone from a previous thread said there was going to be a first aid (high-yield) of some sort for ophthalmology coming out later this year?