Keep your Books

[Sharon Lee]

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I just want to share something I've found that I wish I would have been told before coming to med school.

Keep your textbooks from undergrad. Not all of them, but I wish I would have kept the books of the subjects that I am now taking. Like physiology, biochemistry, microbiology...I'm not sure how it works at all other medical schools but at NSU you don't really need a book for each class. You could just go out and buy new textbooks but that gets costly and you may end up hardly ever using the books, so my advice is keep your undergrad books to use as a reference. Especially because you've already learned from those books so you'll know where about in the book to find information and the figures will be familiar to you.

If you know where you want to go to med school, look up their schedule for the first two years and try to keep any books or even notes from the classes that you have had. Depending on how you learn, it may be very helpful.

Good luck to all those interviewing!!

 

[Dr JPH]

This is really good advice.

There were a few times when I found myself wanting to dig through an old Biostats book or to photocopy that ultra-simple diagram of DNA replication from freshman Biology class.

Like a classmate of mine once said "You can use your old notes to wipe your (edited), but books you can stand on."

Not sure what that means completely, but you get the idea.