Personal Textbook Library

[lord999]

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What books would you carry in your own personal library? To show you what I mean, I'll start off:

1. Pharmaceutics: Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences (11th ed): The absolute best book out there for pharmaceutical technology and compounding (note that this book is an old edition). Far superior to the modern versions of the book. Trivia fact: This particular edition is the only one to have every single drug known up to the time in the book. It has a green cover.

2. Pharmacology:
I'm divided on this one:
1. Goodman and Gilman's: Comprehensive, but sometimes too comprehesive for the job. However, it is the last word in the subject.

2. Katzung: EZ read for quick issues.

3. Medicinal Chemistry:
Wilson and Remer's Textbook of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (also called Delgado's): Better then that POS Foye's, although still confusing at times.

4. Pharmacokinetics/Mathematics
1. Basic Clinical Pharmacokinetics by Winter: Outstanding PK for dummies text that saved my bacon more than once.

2. Bauer's Clinical Pharmacokinetics: The last word in the subject nowadays.

3. Schoenwald's Priniciples of Dosing Adjustments: Superior to Shargel and Yu's book. Somewhat rare though....

4. Pharmaceutical Calculations by Ansel. Far, far superior to the competition's (Reddys)

5. Therapeutics
Hard time on this one too due to different preferences.
1. Dipiro's Pharmacotherapy. Classical textbook approach to therapeutics.

2. Koda-Kimble: For those who want a practical approach to therapeutics.


5. References
1. Facts and Comparisons: Unparalleled book in our subject.
2. Lexicomp's Drug Information Facts (also known as Delacy): Fits in your coat pocket.
3. Boh's Clerkship Manual. Saves my bacon on clerkship rounds...

 

[Heyyyyy]

why would you want to keep them? I always throw or sale all my textbooks/notebook.

 

[Samoa]

Pharmaceutics--agreed, but have you checked the cost?!!!

Pharmacology--they all suck

MedChem--Delgado is the one basic science book I've actually used since graduation

PK--Winter-I like the pocket edition, actually (for us dumber than dummies!)

Math--Ansel is the classic; I didn't even know there was competition

Therapeutics--I prefer DiPiro because it's much easier to find the information you need. I can't stand the way Koda-Kimble's pages are numbered, and the case-based format--while excellent for initial teaching--makes it very difficult to use as a reference. Plus I know several of the authors of both books, and in general find the authors for DiPiro to be without peer in their fields, while the authors for Koda-Kimble in fact ARE some of my peers. But the bottom line is that whichever one's latest edition was published more recently is the one that's the better reference.

Drug Information--Lexi-Comp's pocket books & handheld software, and ASHP Drug Information and Micromedex (online)for comprehensive info

 

[LVPharm]

I keep:
Remington's "The Science and Practice of Pharmacy"
Goodman & Gilman's "Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics"
Dipiro's "Pharmacotherapy"
Koda-Kimble's "Applied Therapeutics".
Lacy's "Drug Information Handbook" from Lexi-Comp.
Ansel's "Pharmaceutical Calculations" (required for my pharm calc course)

I also have a medical encyclopedia from Mosby, and a Merck Manual.

"Drug Information Handbook" is always with me in my bag, whether I'm studying, or at my practice site.

On my laptop, I keep updated copies of Micromedex and Facts & Comparisons. I keep copies of Micromedex and 5 Minute Clinical Consult on my PocketPC.

 

[LVPharm]

Originally posted by Heyyyyy
why would you want to keep them? I always throw or sale all my textbooks/notebook.

These are more than just textbooks you'll use for only one quarter of an undergraduate course. These are reference materials you'll be consulting over and over again through your pharm schooling and thereafter. It's better to have them handy than to have to fight over the copy available in the school library...I think our school copy of Koda-Kimble is starting to come apart at the binding from excessive photocopying 😉

 

[hxi080771]

hi:
I will start pharmacy school soon in Aug. I was wondering as a prospective pharm student if there are some textbooks or review materials that will help me be familiar with the pharmcy classes like biochem , drug delivery system,pharmceutical immunology, or just for the first year in general?

will medical terminology book help also?
thanks

 

[Samoa]

Originally posted by hxi080771
hi:
I will start pharmacy school soon in Aug. I was wondering as a prospective pharm student if there are some textbooks or review materials that will help me be familiar with the pharmcy classes like biochem , drug delivery system,pharmceutical immunology, or just for the first year in general?

will medical terminology book help also?
thanks

Seriously, wait till you get there. You could buy a medical dictionary now if you want. I always used Taber's, but only because it's the one I happened to have.

A lot of students don't even buy their books. I was one of the few in my class who did, and ironically, the ones I used least for the class have been the ones I've used most in practice.

 

[lord999]

Notice I wrote Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences. This is the very old edition of the book, the one that actually teaches compounding. If you get the modern version of Remington's, you would need acessibility to Allen's The Art, Science, and Tech. of Pharmaceutical Compounding.