Physio and Histo Books

[sng33]

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Which text books and review books would you guy's reccomend for Physio and Histo classes?

 

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Originally posted by sng33
Which text books and review books would you guy's reccomend for Physio and Histo classes?

For Physio, Guyton is huge, but it's awesome. It has a great neurophysiology section that goes FAR beyond what you'll need to know for class, but can serve as an incredible resource in your office someday. The problem is, you won't have a lot of time to read all of it. The STARS Physio (Saunders) review book is also very good and probably enough for the "shelf" exam (which is endocrine heavy, at least the one we got).

For Histo, I used Junqueira and Wheater's Atlas. The classes that came after me were using Gartner more and more. Junqueira and Wheater's both have good pix and EMs, but Gartner has great color illustrations. Depends on what you like. I did really well on the Histo shelf, though, just using the previous two.

Hope that helps.

-Skip

 

[Medici]

Hmmm...I did buy Guyton myself...but when you look at the Amazon.com review of Guyton...there is at least one person who rips it apart entirely...anyone know more about this?

 

[shag]

Guyton is huge, and therefore not an efficient read. It goes into much more detail than is necessary for med school physio. I bought the book and used it occasionally as a reference when I had difficulty understanding a concept or found something cool that I wanted to explore further.

FWIW,
I spent the majority of my time with lecture transscripts and BRS Physiology (Costanzo). Physiology was one of my best courses and I placed in the top 10% of my class and did well on the shelf exam.

 

[galactica2001]

Originally posted by Medici
Hmmm...I did buy Guyton myself...but when you look at the Amazon.com review of Guyton...there is at least one person who rips it apart entirely...anyone know more about this?

Our prof. did, too. Prefers Levy. I think someone said that you can't find anything you're looking for in Guyton, but can in Levy. That's true.
But - Guyton's much prettier.😀

 

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Originally posted by shag
I spent the majority of my time with lecture transscripts and BRS Physiology (Costanzo).

Costanzo also authored the STARS (Saunders) book. She's a prof at MCV, and a friend of mine had her as a physio professor during his undergrad MD program.

STARS is like a big BRS with really good diagrams, and probably sufficient for most medical physio courses. But, it doesn't have review questions.

I used Guyton more to supplement neurophysio and neuroanatomy. It can be arcane as hell sometimes, but it's an incredible book IMHO.

Originally posted by shag
Physiology was one of my best courses and I placed in the top 10% of my class and did well on the shelf exam.

Congrats. Physio is one of the tougher med school courses. I did pretty well too, and scored a 78 on the "shelf" (which I was pretty happy with). There was SO much endocrine on our version of the shelf, I wasn't prepared enough. So far, that shelf and the Micro/Immuno shelf have been the toughest for me.

 

[Dodge This]

I like Kerr's Atlas of Functional Histology. Like the title says, it's an atlas, but it still has good overview of function as well as lots of good photomicrographs. Definitely not a review book.

 

[IlianaSedai]

For efficient reading, Constanzo's STAR (Saunders Text And Review) book brings it down to the essentials and has some very logical and clear explanations and graphs.

For the quality of pictures and how close they look to real slides, I preferred Kerr's Atlas of Histology to Wheater's... but Wheater's has <B>much</B> better textual supplement to each slide, whereas Kerr's slide descriptions seemed barely worth reading....

Junqueira's text is really rambly and can be inefficient... but the 10th edition is a huge improvement on the 9th, so worth checking into regardless. The slides and figures in the 10th edition can be very helpful.

 

[doepug]

Ganong is an awesome physiology text, and Wheater's is the book for histology.

Cheers,
doepug

 

[Hotsauce21]

i used brs physio with costanzo. i dont know about this stars book. but i liked this one---a very simple book--makes physio seem easier than it actually is.