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Starting MS in the fall.. can anyone recomend some books to read over the holidays. anything to help me for the future.. books for boards etc. ? thanks
DrB said:If you want a great book for physiology use the Board Review Series Physiology 3rd edition by Lippincott (I don't use anything else for that class).
DrB said:Well to be honest... I use the lecture powerpoint slides with BRS. The book we were supposed to get is huge, I only looked at it once... way more info than I needed.
The way I figure it, get myself ready for USMLE = getting ready for COMLEX = getting ready for block exams.
What do you use?
trackstarjr1 said:Starting MS in the fall.. can anyone recomend some books to read over the holidays. anything to help me for the future.. books for boards etc. ? thanks
DrB said:The House of God
Tuesday's with Morrie
On Death and Dying
If you want a great book for physiology use the Board Review Series Physiology 3rd edition by Lippincott (I don't use anything else for that class).
My suggestion is to enjoy your time off, I did and I don't regret it. Take the money you would have spent on reapplying and go some place nice.
That being said, I would suggest looking at some Medical Terminology, go over the basic anatomy of the body (just to get a feel for where your head is in comparison to your %@#). Look at some biochemistry, if you want to memorize something you could start with glycolysis and Krebs (everyone has to do it). Now that you have done all that... you should be ready for the first day...
BTW congrats!
djnels01 said:Excellent post Dr. B. I would recommend reading for leisure - as OSUDoc said I'm sure it won't help to actually try to learn anything now. Besides, we'll be so sick of all of the material after Med school anyway we'll be glad we had the opportunity to relax now...
I would add a few more books:
Mountains Beyone Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Healing the Wounds by David Hilfiker
The Spirit Catches you and you fall down (as was mentioned earlier)
I find these books very interesting because they deal with Medicine as an ART and not a SCIENCE. They speak of "wounded healers," of motivations for going into and staying in medicine, of the frustrations physicians face in dealing with sick and dying patients, etc. This is the medical education that is important to develop now, as I'm sure once med school starts there will be little time to worry about anything other than anatomy, biochem pathways and disease processes.
Just my two cents...
trackstarjr1 said:Starting MS in the fall.. can anyone recomend some books to read over the holidays. anything to help me for the future.. books for boards etc. ? thanks
Old_Mil said:My advice would be to get your nose into this Anatomy textbook and read as much of it as you can over break.
Anatomy is the most challenging class you will have 1st semester. It is a pretty good bet that in our first semester, more people failed anatomy than any other course...or perhaps more than any two other courses combined for that matter. I would also guess that many if not most of them had no prior exposure to the subject matter.
Start exposing yourself to this material early and you will have a much easier time of it when school starts. If it wasn't for this book, I probably would not have met with much success in that class.
OSUdoc08 said:Before school, read House of God, by Samuel Shem, MD
You don't need to prepare for school. It won't help.
Books you will need for 1st year:
Anatomy: Rohen's Color Atlas + Netter's Atlas + BRS
Histology: Wheater's Atlas
OMT: Savarese's OMT Review
Physiology: BRS
Neuroanatomy: BRS
VentdependenT said:Moore is the bomb for anatomy if you really dig it. I loved anatomy.
As far as the above goes I agree. I'd add in:
1) Lippincotts Biochemestry
2) HY Neuroanatomy (this gives you the big picture quickly). I hated BRS.
For second year do yourselves a favor and grab Pharmacology Recall. Write your notes in it from class. If you work with this thing consistently you'll blow away pharm on the boards.
If you are dying to read something grab a beginners text on anatomy. You don't need an atlas yet and I would advise not even cracking one open until med school.
Otherwise live it up now cause it wont get this good again till fourth year.
OSUdoc08 said:I disagree. The only anatomy book you need other than the Rohen & Netter's Atlas is Chung's Board Review Series. It's a waste of money to buy any textbook for anatomy. Use your class notes.
Old_Mil said:Unfortunately, our class notes for anatomy aren't particularly good. In fact, they're pretty bad.
Regarding Moore, it's a good reference work but trying to learn the subject by reading it straight through doesn't work well in my opinion.
VentdependenT said:Moore is the bomb for anatomy if you really dig it. I loved anatomy.
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