I have Goodman's and Gilman's

[blueclassring]

I bought this resource several months ago and I am starting Pharmacy School this fall. Is that a good resource to start reading about drugs or is it too advanced at this point?

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[sdn1977]

Great book! I just bought my third one (ok....I've been a phrmacist for 29 years, so not unreasonable 🙂 !)

But...to just read??? No...its not what I'd call casual reading, even for pharmacy. I think you'll need to have more background to really get the most out of this reference. I would also be surprised if you actually use it like a text book, even in school. I never actually read it cover to cover. I used in in school to supplement the texts we had. I use it now as a resource for learning the detailed chemistry & pharmacology for drugs which have come out since I left school.

You won't be sorry you have it.....just spend your summer reading fun stuff.

During the summer, you can use G&G to look up stuff you know about (like Acetaminophen or ASA) if you just want to out of curiousity.

 

[pharmaz88]

FYI... most CPG professors are partial to DiPiro, and will assign readings from there.

...then again, not many people actually read the chapters anyway.

 

[pinkyrx]

I personally think it's too advanced if you haven't started school yet... It couldn't hurt to check out a few topics that interest you though.

Like the previous poster said, our school prefers Dipiro and we had quite a few reading assignments from it. (though I won't mention how often I actually read it )

 

[pharmaz88]

...on the topic of resources, you should probably familiarize yourself with finding info in the Drug Information Handbook, Facts and Comparisons, etc. You'll be needing to look stuff up in these for Pharmaceutics, as early as your second week into the program.

If you don't have access to them currently, just make a point out of heading to the reference section of the library once you're on campus and have your ID badge.

 

[ZpackSux]

FYI... most CPG professors are partial to DiPiro, and will assign readings from there.

...then again, not many people actually read the chapters anyway.

G&G and DiPiro are two different categories of text books.

G&G is a pharmacology text book and DiPiro/Koda-Kimble Young are therapeutics text. G&G is a great resource and so is DiPiro. I still have both and I will keep both.

But now I read more important journals only...like Golf Digest, Car&Driver, Travel&Leisure... etc.

To the Original Poster.. yes go ahead and read G&G... and learn which drugs are in which class and learn how it works. Don't worry too much about the structures yet.

 

[pharmaz88]

G&G and DiPiro are two different categories of text books.

G&G is a pharmacology text book and DiPiro/Koda-Kimble Young are therapeutics text. G&G is a great resource and so is DiPiro. I still have both and I will keep both.

Oops. Good catch. As far as pharmacology texts go, CPG mostly uses Katzung. ...again though, I'm not sure how much additional benefit you'd get out of it beyond what's presented in the note packs you're given in lecture.

 

[kwizard]

Oops. Good catch. As far as pharmacology texts go, CPG mostly uses Katzung. ...again though, I'm not sure how much additional benefit you'd get out of it beyond what's presented in the note packs you're given in lecture.

Sorry, but one more minor correction based on opinion. Katzung's Clinical Pharmacology is a nice text as well, but one may find that it is not as comprehensive as G&G. You may find that Katzung is more common on the west coast (in particularly in California) as many of the contributing authors are from UCSF med school (and a few from the school of pharmacy). G&G is still pretty much considered the "gold standard" nationally given its overall thorough coverage of pharmacology. From a student perspective Katzung is a little more user friendly b/c the chapters are a whole lot shorter and Katzung isn't 10lbs worth of textbook to carry around. Either way you'll find in practice that pharamacology and physiology are two of the basic sciences that may be most useful when understanding how to apply therapeutics to "real world" situations.

 

[sdn1977]

G&G or like pharmacology books will be ones you'll use your whole career (altho - as I said - you'll have to replace them).

Therapeutics texts won't be needed since you'll have learned most of it & IMO, its easier to keep up with current drug use in therapeutics in journal articles. It takes about 2-4 years to get journal articles incorporated into texts.

I still have my first (& the original) Koda-Kimble, who by the way...was only an associate professor when I was at UCSF. I've never felt the need to replace it.

Even though I'm a west coast person (& from UCSF to boot) - I still think G&G is the gold standard.....but....I agree with Zpack - isn't there something more interesting you'd like to read this summer?????

 

[ZpackSux]

G&G or like pharmacology books will be ones you'll use your whole career (altho - as I said - you'll have to replace them).

Therapeutics texts won't be needed since you'll have learned most of it & IMO, its easier to keep up with current drug use in therapeutics in journal articles. It takes about 2-4 years to get journal articles incorporated into texts.

I still have my first (& the original) Koda-Kimble, who by the way...was only an associate professor when I was at UCSF. I've never felt the need to replace it.

Even though I'm a west coast person (& from UCSF to boot) - I still think G&G is the gold standard.....but....I agree with Zpack - isn't there something more interesting you'd like to read this summer?????

Yes, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble set the tone.. that may have been how UCSF surpassed USC.. and never looked back.. 😡

Tho, I chose USC over SF because of the football team and my gf lived mile and half away from USC HSC campus.. was worth it because she's my wife now.

I agree, G and G is the Gold Standard of Pharmacology.

 

[jboogie]

Bluclassring,
There may be better pharmacology texts, but Katzung is "required" at CPG. One of the professors actually teaches section for section from Katzung. One teaches almost directly from DiPiro. Thus for your sake at CPG to help understand some of professors (one in particular), you will end up reading Katzung to get through the tests.

 

[jboogie]

So I thought I'd throw this one in. We had a professor actually say that G&G is the gold standard in class today. He said that CPG chooses Katzung because of cost and organization for the curriculum.