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So! I'm just mostly curious here. For those of us that like having books for classes *if* the books are helpful... what books would you recommend?

I can make a list here, and update it as suggestions are made. I'm curious what everyone found the most helpful, and it may help us 2015ers pick our books this fall. (Or keep us from wasting our money!)

So, vet students, what is/are your favorite book(s) for...

Anatomy:
Dyce (1)
Evans (1)
Pasquini
Miller
Virtual Canine Anatomy CD (1)
Glass Horse CD (1)

Physiology:
Silverthorn (1)
Duke
Costanzo (2)

Histology:
Wheater

Immunology:
Tizard (1)
Janeway (1)

Bacteriology:

Parasitology, Pharmacology? Others?

General reference books (not subject specific)?


Make more suggestions and I will add to the list.

It's a bit hard to quantify the 'kinda, sorta' type comments, so really, just post about a book you used if you loved it, used it all the time, and will be keeping it for years. Fair enough? 🙂
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So this might not be the same for other schools, but CSU has a survey of how useful different textbooks were for people. http://www.vettext.org/PDGCommTemplates/VetText/Survey.html#Books_to_Buy_Survey_2009

My personal take is:

Anatomy? Not really textbook, but Virtual canine anatomy I think is a must (but that might be because I'm CSU centric).

I feel like people have different preferences for anatomy texts depending on how they want to use them, so this one might be a good one to take a look at in the library first. Once summer starts, I'm sure they'll be returned. Evans is great for quick reference but not so much in terms of understanding how the body works. I had Evans and Dyce, but only really used Dyce for large animal anatomy. The layout of the book is not very reader friendly, and it's hard to find the information you're looking for. There were a few times I went to look up things in Miller's because the info I needed was not really in either of the books, and google search came up inconclusive.

I really liked having the vet consult (online book) version of Evans/Dyce because you could copy/paste the figures and make quizzes for yourself very easily. Awesome for bones and muscles!

Physiology? Human physiology by Silverthorn I think was by far the best physiology book I've seen. Explains things far better than the vet specific ones. Showed my second year roommate mine when she was struggling with physio concepts and she went out and bought one right away. She now references it all the time. Cunningham I thought was a joke.

Histology? Never cracked a book so I dunno...

Immunology? I'm a huge fan of Janeway, but if you're not used to the book it might be info overload to use just as a reference. If you're going to spend the time to actually read it though, it's really really good. Just make sure you have the latest edition because it's a very fast evolving field. I have the 6th ed (2005) and it's like obsolete...

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The only text book I really wish I had was Dyce's Anatomy. With the added note that although it is good for pictures, Pasquini's is not very useful for actual written information, and very difficult to navigate (eg. if something is only labeled in a picture and not actually listed in the written list of structures, it isn't in the index.....). The glass horse is similar to the virtual canine and also very useful.

Veterinary Microbiology was a life saver for me, but our Bacteriology professor taught almost straight out of the text. So it may not be as useful for other schools.

Duke's Veterinary Physiology was useful during GI, Endocrine, and Repro for us as well for the same reason. To the point where test questions came straight out of the objective questions in the book. I did think this one was a good reference for those chapters, but didn't end up using it much for any of the other sections covered by different professors.

For every other class we've had so far, the professors notes/powerpoints/etc were far more helpful than digging through whatever recommended text books there were.
 
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I liked Dyce for anatomy, though I used it more for reference than actual reading. I think it will come in handy later on when I'm reviewing because it has excellent figures and is good at explaining why structures are clinically relevant.
I didn't buy a histology text, but kind of wish I had because it would have been helpful to be able to look at normals to compare to when studying pathology.
I bought Boron/ Boulpaep for physiology and HATED it. Very confusing organization and difficult to find what you're looking for. I will say it had some helpful figures though.
For immunology, we used Tizzard and I really liked it. It is a veterinary specific book which I found really helpful in this subject, especially because it used a lot of veterinary-specific examples.
Also, I just wanted to let everyone know that for pathology, there is a great book available for free on google books. The authors are Jones, Hunt, and King, and it is the first book that comes up when you search veterinary pathology. It has a few missing pages, but overall I found it really helpful and better than the text I bought (Cheville)
 
My biggest regret first-year was getting older versions of textbooks that didn't have color pictures. I bought the older edition of Dyce and found myself using other people's books throughout the past year.
 
My FAV book this year!!!! (thanks gella bella)

http://www.amazon.com/Physiology-ST...2165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304997471&sr=8-1

Physio!! Easy to read, GREAT pics, AMAZING tables that list hormones, trans factors, diseases, cytokines etc etc for great organization and condensed list with functions. Even though it is aimed at med students, our physio lectures were covered by this whole book too. I love this book!!!!!!! Best use of my money this year (and so much cheaper than anatomy books lol)

I'm sure it will be a nice resource once i get to clinics and need to refresh my memory on basic concepts
 
By far my most used book was my physio book. It is by Costanzo and it is AMAZING! It's very easy to read, but still teaches you everything with great visuals.

Evans Dissection of the Dog is a must have.

Dyce was an ok book for anatomy, but honestly I rarely looked at it unless I needed to clarify something. And our anatomy lab has several copies of the older addition anyway.
 
I updated the original post.

So far, the only book I'm feeling genuinely interested in is the Costanzo phys book! Surely there are other helpful books out there, though I realize everyone is different in how they like to learn, etc. etc...
 
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I didn't buy a histology text, but kind of wish I had because it would have been helpful to be able to look at normals to compare to when studying pathology.
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Now that you mention it, that is so true. Didn't have any need for it in histo class itself. But once that was over and I was in biology of disease lab looking at abnormal slides... half the time i was like ??? when asked "so what shouldn't be there?" or "what's the difference in morphology between this one and a normal cell in this organ?"
 
twelvetigers said:
I updated the original post.

So far, the only book I'm feeling genuinely interested in is the Costanzo phys book! Surely there are other helpful books out there, though I realize everyone is different in how they like to learn, etc. etc...
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Personally, I would add AN anatomy reference of some sort. But outside of anatomy and phys, I feel like you could totally get away with sitting through classes for the first week or so and see the professor's lecture style/notes before deciding if an extra reference source is necessary.
 
the summer before i started school i asked about anatomy recommendations on here. i got some really good responses and I ended up getting a couple extra books in addition to the ones required for us (little miller and dyce).
What i found was that i just had NO TIME to use anything more than little miller. I barely used dyce lol I used dyce mostly for clarification, and large animal. This summer I need to read more in dyce because I mostly just looked at the pictures and small descriptions but I know the text in that book is really helpful too. So honestly i'd probably not recommend any other additional books than little miller and dyce.

however, Penn has the super speed anatomy (3 quarters) with an exam on (all dog/cat, all ruminant/horse, all head/chicken) so maybe it was the quantity and the speed here that made it hard for me to use other resources?

What do you all think from other schools? Were you actually able to use the "extra" anatomy books you bought?
 
I only used Pasquini. Both Pasquini books, actually.

The Costanzo book looks baller. I bought the LANGE series for Cardio/Respiratory/Renal phys (we have them as separate courses in a series, not one Physiology course) and I like them because they're concise.

Same with this Quick Look Endocrinology review.
 
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My FAV book this year!!!! (thanks gella bella)

http://www.amazon.com/Physiology-ST...2165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304997471&sr=8-1

Physio!! Easy to read, GREAT pics, AMAZING tables that list hormones, trans factors, diseases, cytokines etc etc for great organization and condensed list with functions. Even though it is aimed at med students, our physio lectures were covered by this whole book too. I love this book!!!!!!! Best use of my money this year (and so much cheaper than anatomy books lol)

I'm sure it will be a nice resource once i get to clinics and need to refresh my memory on basic concepts
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👍 Haha Thanks BlacKat I've been meaning to get on here and say this. This book is amazing.

I do a lot of checking out what medical students recommend for books because a lot of stuff we are covering this first year is very similar: physio, immunology etc are the same between humans and animals.

This Constanzo book for Physio is so highly rated by med students I just had to have it, and once I saw it I had to tell BlacKat about it. It's amazing.

Also, for immunology, try checking out: How the Immune System Works

http://www.amazon.com/How-Immune-Sy...221X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305040814&sr=8-1

This is a thin book but the author explains things SO. WELL. You can honestly sit down and read this book like it's a novel. Great examples that really allow you to remember things when you're answering questions on exams. You could probably read through the entire book in 4-5 hours and I would recommend doing just that. It's also highly recommended by medical students and I've found it really helpful in our classes as well.

As far as anatomy, I agree with BlacKat (again!) I just didn't have time to read anything besides little miller and occassionally Dyce when I was really confused...maybe that's because of Penn's weird anatomy schedule, I've heard great things about Pasquini but I just never had time.

Ah and Janeway is great for Immuno as well...but just a little too much info. If I had more time I would love to use it more but I just don't have the time to read it thoroughly...it is usually in the library so I'd recommend grabbing it off the shelf or checking it out but don't necessarily buy it...unless you love immuno or want an excellent reference (it is excellent and I may actually buy it even though I'll be done with Immuno in another few weeks).
 
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I looked at Janeway once, and it's ridiculously similar to the book we used for undergrad immunology, which was by Peter Parham. The figures are mostly identical, and it's structured in a similar way. I plan on keeping it (might as well, huh?) but the little book you mentioned is intriguing...
 
Honestly I think I used Miller's like, once. I'm quite sad that I bought it and would feel bad offloading it onto a 2015er seeing how useless it was for the price paid.

For that matter, I don't think I found any books particularly useful. Either I couldn't find the answer or it was answered on Google first. Sherwood's physiology was helpful for the basics but couldn't answer some more of the advanced questions that Berne and Levy might have (but I never bought it so I don't know).

Never even cracked open my immunology nor microbiology books and my neurology book was opened once, when we were supposed to bring it to class.

I thought the DeLahunta Guide to the Dissection of the Dog was quite well done, but there were several corrections to be made in it.

I used websites quite a bit though.

Website Dump:
www.vin.com has good resources through Ctrl + E (the 'VINdex')
http://vanat.cvm.umn.edu/muscleQuiz/index.html can be useful to quiz yourself, but it doesn't go as in-depth as was needed.
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/oed/horsedissection/ Really good horse dissection database. Good pictures and all that jazz.
http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/grossanat/largemenu/hregions.htm Can be useful to see everything from a diagramatic view point
http://vanat.cvm.umn.edu/carnLabs/ Handy website for the dog dissection.
http://www.udel.edu/biology/Wags/histopage/colorpage/colorpage.htm Good histo Site
http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/histo/Labstomach.htm And OK histology site
Also, as far as histology, try YouTubing 'Shotgun histology', but as far as histology went if you did a google image search of the tissue you wanted, you'd more often than not find what you were looking for.
http://da.biostr.washington.edu/cgi-bin/DA/PageMaster?atlas:Neuroanatomy+ffpathIndex:Splash^Page+2 Neurology site. Click on the 'atlas' button.
http://www.ucd.ie/vetanat/images/image.html A site of random diagrams. This can be a bit hit or miss in usefulness. Just do Ctrl + F and search for the species you're looking for. Might have to try bovine, cow, ox, etc. because they're not consistent with their naming of diagrams.
 
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HopefulAg said:
Honestly I think I used Miller's like, once. I'm quite sad that I bought it and would feel bad offloading it onto a 2015er seeing how useless it was for the price paid.
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They told us (i think our anatomy professor but i cant really remember) that big Miller is mostly for when you are practicing. All the vets go to that to look stuff up. He recommended us buying it now because the price will be cheaper than 4 yrs down the road and not much info changes year to year.

So don't be sad you got it! You'll probably use it til your 75 yrs old lol (unless you do LA 😕)
 
twelvetigers said:
I looked at Janeway once, and it's ridiculously similar to the book we used for undergrad immunology, which was by Peter Parham. The figures are mostly identical, and it's structured in a similar way. I plan on keeping it (might as well, huh?) but the little book you mentioned is intriguing...
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You will need to buy the little book. It's required spring semester.
 
So don't be sad you got it! You'll probably use it til your 75 yrs old lol (unless you do LA)
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I just can't win.
 
Anatomy. I used Guide to the Dissection of the Dog (aka "Little Miller's") extensively. For the large animal stuff, I used Dyce a lot (not as much as DoD). If I didn't have time to read it I at least went through the diagrams.

Radiology. If you want a reference for normal radiographs, go with Coulson! It's pretty much just rads and diagrams to help you interpret them.

Clinical Pathology. I used Fundamentals of Veterinary Clinical Pathology extensively. It's basically a giant outline of physiologic pathways rather than a "traditional" textbook.

Virology. I used Fenner's Veterinary Virology extensively for the specific viruses.
 
Phys: Sherwood's Animal Phys for Basic overview, then Boron Medical Phys (human med) for more details. I know people that use Duke's and like it. I'd stay away from Cunningham unless you just need the basic overview of something, I find it's lacking in a lot of places.

Anatomy: I have Little Millers, 2nd Ed Dyce (I like the older one better!) and both the Canine and Equine Budras.

Path: McGavin... love this book. Goes over basic phys in each chapter, even borrows diagrams from Kirzenbaum.

Histo: Kirzenbaum's Histology and Cell Bio... I like it a lot because it's not just straight histo, it has some great diagrams and is easy to find things in. I also like Ross but I have too many books as it is.

Immuno: Janeway's Immunobiology

Those, to me, are the "big" ologies right now... or just the ones I used a lot this block! Ok, back to studying for finals. 😛
 
Anatomy: Loved Dyce and Pasquini. Dyce was more a book to read about systems and is pretty dense, but I used it a lot. Miller's Dissection of the Dog (req'd) and did not care for it. Used a Color Atlas that was really helpful. Doone, maybe? Sorry, not accessible right now.

Histo: Wheater's - really liked it.
 
I don't think I have looked at a textbook all semester.
First semester, the only book I used much was Little Miller and that's because it tells you how to cut up the dog. That and the (terrible) goat and horse dissection guides.

Wikipedia, on the other hand, has my undying devotion.

I would recommend saving your money because at least at Penn they give you everything you need in the lectures and you won't have much time for books anyway.
 
bunnity said:
I don't think I have looked at a textbook all semester.
First semester, the only book I used much was Little Miller and that's because it tells you how to cut up the dog. That and the (terrible) goat and horse dissection guides.

Wikipedia, on the other hand, has my undying devotion.

I would recommend saving your money because at least at Penn they give you everything you need in the lectures and you won't have much time for books anyway.
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Mostly agree. I was a big fan of Dr. Google and his sidekick Dr. Wikipidea.

The only textbook outside of anatomy I used was Immunology: A Short Course, mainly because the course seemed so disjointed at the beginning and it was easier to read the relevant chapters than to follow the completely random lecture order. And also, I happened to get it from a 4th year.

I agree with Hopeful Ag though on Big Miller, mine is untouched by human hands. It looks nice on my shelf though.

That reminds me, if anyone wants to buy a 6th edition (the current one) of Biochemistry by stryer et al I have one STILL IN THE SHRINK WRAP!
 
I just received my Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary in the mail today, and noticed its the 25th edition. Does anyone know if there's a big difference between that one and the 32nd?? I only paid like $2 for it, so I figured I could take a chance 😀
 
Can we get some non-textbook suggestions?
Something that pre-vets could read for leisure, while still sticking to a reasonable degree of academic integrity ?


Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered is my best friend..
please add to the list in its own category 🙂

But I'd love some other more accessible suggestions..

p.s. I'm too sleepy to search the archives right now 😉
 
Physio: We used Textbook of Veterinary Physiology, 4th edition, by Cunningham - it was our bible for an entire year, wasn't terrible tho

Anatomy: They required Dyce's Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy 3rd edition, but most of us completely hated it! The text was really dense and hard to read and the pictures weren't great (although I've heard the new edition has a bit better pictures). Most of us ended up purchasing Anatomy of Domestic Animals, 11th Edition By Pasquini the illustrations are amazing! If you buy it from the publisher before coming over its much cheaper (sudzpublishing.com) Also for anatomy I got the little Miller's Guide to the Dissection of the Dog by Evans, 7th Edition, which I liked. But what I'd really recommend is the Color Atlas of Veterinary Anatomy, Volume 3, The Dog and Cat by Done, Goody, Evans, and Stickland. They also have a horse edition Color Atlas of Veterinary Anatomy. Volume 2 - The Horse and Volume 1 is for ruminants, I might buy them this summer if I can come up with the money.

For Histo: they required Histology: A Text and Atlas with Correlated Cell and Molecular Biology, 5th edition, by Ross ... I didn't buy a histology textbook, I thought the notes from class were good enough and if I needed to look anything up I just went to the library. I might need one for this fall though in pathology.
 
Minnerbelle said:
So this might not be the same for other schools, but CSU has a survey of how useful different textbooks were for people. http://www.vettext.org/PDGCommTemplates/VetText/Survey.html#Books_to_Buy_Survey_2009

My personal take is:

Anatomy? Not really textbook, but Virtual canine anatomy I think is a must (but that might be because I'm CSU centric).

I feel like people have different preferences for anatomy texts depending on how they want to use them, so this one might be a good one to take a look at in the library first. Once summer starts, I'm sure they'll be returned. Evans is great for quick reference but not so much in terms of understanding how the body works. I had Evans and Dyce, but only really used Dyce for large animal anatomy. The layout of the book is not very reader friendly, and it's hard to find the information you're looking for. There were a few times I went to look up things in Miller's because the info I needed was not really in either of the books, and google search came up inconclusive.

I really liked having the vet consult (online book) version of Evans/Dyce because you could copy/paste the figures and make quizzes for yourself very easily. Awesome for bones and muscles!

Physiology? Human physiology by Silverthorn I think was by far the best physiology book I've seen. Explains things far better than the vet specific ones. Showed my second year roommate mine when she was struggling with physio concepts and she went out and bought one right away. She now references it all the time. Cunningham I thought was a joke.

Histology? Never cracked a book so I dunno...

Immunology? I'm a huge fan of Janeway, but if you're not used to the book it might be info overload to use just as a reference. If you're going to spend the time to actually read it though, it's really really good. Just make sure you have the latest edition because it's a very fast evolving field. I have the 6th ed (2005) and it's like obsolete...
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I am a teaching assistant for the physiology class at my undergraduate institution, and the professor will only use silverthorne's book. It is a fantastic text. 😀
 
If anyone is looking for a book on reproduction, Pathways to Pregnancy and Parturition is excellent
 
Hey good afternoon. Any good books for clinical pathology? I used the search button and just saw references about "fundamentals of veterinary clinical pathology" and "veterinary hematology and clinical chemistry". Are there any other good books that you consider a nice reference or must have? I did not wanted to create another topic and this one seemed to be covering just the topic of recommended textbooks.

Thanks.
 
There are many good clin path books. The ones you need depend on what you want them for.
The Stockham and Scott book (Fundamentals of Vet Clin Path) is harder for me to read because of the layout. Good for reference, bad for reading large amounts at a time. It has almost no photos but some of the best information about changes, mechanisms, testing procedures, etc. It mostly deals with chemistry with some hematology, no cytology. Veterinary Clinical Hematology and Clinical Chemistry by Maryanna Thrall has more photos and is a good reference for chemistry too. My favorite hematology-only book is John Harvey's Veterinary Hematology. For cytology I like Rose Raskin's Canine and Feline Cytology best. Cowell & Tyler's Diagnostic Hematology and Cytology of the Dog and Cat is a good combo blood/cyto book, it just doesn't go into quite as much detail as Harvey and Raskin's books.

For general overviews, I'd probably recommend Cowell&Tyler plus Thrall. They will cover most things you'd do as a GP. If you really want to get into cytology and hematology, get Raskin and Harvey instead of C&T.

...or you can be a clin path nerd like me and have them all plus several others. If there are others you want to know about specifically let me know.
 
JaynaAli said:
There are many good clin path books. The ones you need depend on what you want them for.
The Stockham and Scott book (Fundamentals of Vet Clin Path) is harder for me to read because of the layout. Good for reference, bad for reading large amounts at a time. It has almost no photos but some of the best information about changes, mechanisms, testing procedures, etc. It mostly deals with chemistry with some hematology, no cytology. Veterinary Clinical Hematology and Clinical Chemistry by Maryanna Thrall has more photos and is a good reference for chemistry too. My favorite hematology-only book is John Harvey's Veterinary Hematology. For cytology I like Rose Raskin's Canine and Feline Cytology best. Cowell & Tyler's Diagnostic Hematology and Cytology of the Dog and Cat is a good combo blood/cyto book, it just doesn't go into quite as much detail as Harvey and Raskin's books.

For general overviews, I'd probably recommend Cowell&Tyler plus Thrall. They will cover most things you'd do as a GP. If you really want to get into cytology and hematology, get Raskin and Harvey instead of C&T.

...or you can be a clin path nerd like me and have them all plus several others. If there are others you want to know about specifically let me know.
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Thanks a lot. Awesome a Clinical pathologist in training answers me because I am planning to become a Veterinary Clinical Pathologist too. I added them to my future buying list. Right now I want to dig deeper into the field of clinical chemistry, as I am seeing Acid-Base disorders linked to Renal evaluation, and I can't find a decent book that guides you in the topic of Acid-Base physiology (tried Cunninham, Costanzo and Silverthorn) but I can't find the concept of electroneutrality (anions vs cations incluying anion gap) which is really importart in Acid- Base homeostasis. Also, a good one that includes clinical chemistry of the liver could be cool.
 
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Thanks a lot. Awesome a Clinical pathologist in training answers me because I am planning to become a Veterinary Clinical Pathologist too. I added them to my future buying list. Right now I want to dig deeper into the field of clinical chemistry, as I am seeing Acid-Base disorders linked to Renal evaluation, and I can't find a decent book that guides you in the topic of Acid-Base physiology (tried Cunninham, Costanzo and Silverthorn) but I can't find the concept of electroneutrality (anions vs cations incluying anion gap) which is really importart in Acid- Base homeostasis. Also, a good one that includes clinical chemistry of the liver could be cool.
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For that, I'd try Stockham and Scott. There's also Clinical Biochemistry of Domestic Animals by Kaneko you could look into if S&S doesn't give you answers. I have that book too but haven't tackled it yet, so I can't speak to the content. It's a very huge book. If you have other questions about clin path, residencies, or whatever, send me a PM and I'd be happy to answer.
 
I was actually wondering about aquatic animal medicine/husbandry books today, and this thread got bumped! Any suggestions?
 
JaynaAli said:
For that, I'd try Stockham and Scott. There's also Clinical Biochemistry of Domestic Animals by Kaneko you could look into if S&S doesn't give you answers. I have that book too but haven't tackled it yet, so I can't speak to the content. It's a very huge book. If you have other questions about clin path, residencies, or whatever, send me a PM and I'd be happy to answer.
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Thanks I will give them a look. Nice book recommendations 😀
 
Hi guys good Sunday! Any good books for Microbiology and Pharmacology?

Thanks a lot.
 
Doc JV said:
Hi guys good Sunday! Any good books for Microbiology and Pharmacology?

Thanks a lot.
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Pharmacology: Do you have Plumb's Veterinary Handbook? I think that's *the* book for finding doses and reported interactions for specific drugs.
 
Zensing said:
Pharmacology: Do you have Plumb's Veterinary Handbook? I think that's *the* book for finding doses and reported interactions for specific drugs.
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I've seen it on the hospital I volunteer, but because I had a really bad teacher on that topic, I wanted to learn myself. And it seemed for me that Plumb's is more like a reference, rather than a textbook to teach.
 
Doc JV said:
I've seen it on the hospital I volunteer, but because I had a really bad teacher on that topic, I wanted to learn myself. And it seemed for me that Plumb's is more like a reference, rather than a textbook to teach.
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That's true. On the other hand, I think it was the only textbook my teacher assigned. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetes are more in biochem, and I think internal medicine books/other medicine classes are probably a better place to look for the disease and find what to treat. What do you want to learn about pharmacology?
 
Zensing said:
That's true. On the other hand, I think it was the only textbook my teacher assigned. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetes are more in biochem, and I think internal medicine books/other medicine classes are probably a better place to look for the disease and find what to treat. What do you want to learn about pharmacology?
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Thanks.

Mostly the basics.

Pharmacokinetics (also pharmacodynamics), antimicrobial drugs (accion mechanism, MICs, classification,etc..), antiparasitic, pharmacology of the nervous system, and well, just the basics where I can teach myself the important concepts to know, before going to a book like Plumb's so I can understand things better.
 
Doc JV said:
I've seen it on the hospital I volunteer, but because I had a really bad teacher on that topic, I wanted to learn myself. And it seemed for me that Plumb's is more like a reference, rather than a textbook to teach.
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Plumbs does have a section on the pharmacokinetics of each drug, but I understand you probably want more basics like drug classifications. Just though I'd mention it, though.
 
Doc JV said:
Thanks.

Mostly the basics.

Pharmacokinetics (also pharmacodynamics), antimicrobial drugs (accion mechanism, MICs, classification,etc..), antiparasitic, pharmacology of the nervous system, and well, just the basics where I can teach myself the important concepts to know, before going to a book like Plumb's so I can understand things better.
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PHARM: Amazon product ASIN 0813820618 The definitive Bible on the subject. One of the editors (Mark Papich) in on NCSU's faculty and teaches 2nd semester pharm (in our curriculum, pharm is a two semester subject). He's incredible. By far, my favorite course in the didactic curriculum. Papich also authors a drug handbook similar to Plumbs, but the big red book linked in my comment will give you all you need to know on PK/PD, ADME, etc.

MICRO: Amazon product ASIN 1405158239 I straight-up LOVE this text. Contains all you need to know about the most important viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Sweet, sweet reference. Organization is tops. I use it all the time.
 
Crap...looks as if those didn't link. Here ya go:

PHARM: Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Riviere and Papich [Eds.]
MICRO: Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease, Quinn and Markey
 
JaynaAli said:
For that, I'd try Stockham and Scott. There's also Clinical Biochemistry of Domestic Animals by Kaneko you could look into if S&S doesn't give you answers. I have that book too but haven't tackled it yet, so I can't speak to the content. It's a very huge book. If you have other questions about clin path, residencies, or whatever, send me a PM and I'd be happy to answer.
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I second this recommendation. The Stockham and Scott text rocks! Great differential lists for any given pattern with all the detail in the world to back it up. I'm a fan 🙂
 
Lab Vet said:
I second this recommendation. The Stockham and Scott text rocks! Great differential lists for any given pattern with all the detail in the world to back it up. I'm a fan 🙂
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Thanks a lot man! 😀 I'll try them out, yep definitely the Stockham book is awesome, my techer is member of the ASVCP and told us it was one of his favorite authors. And I like to check it out to deepen my knowledge. Im going to check those pharmacology references. Thanks
 
Hi guys, any good references on large animal surgery (cattle)? Thanks.
 
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