Textbooks for next year??

[Shaden]

Hey,
So one of my friends in the 4th year gave me a list of these books for the upcoming year, and I was wondering if they are the perfect books for understanding and for Step 1. What you guys thinks about these .. :

Pathology= Robbins Basic Pathology 8th edition. There are a couple of students who suggested that the 7th edition is better than the 8th. Is that's true?

Hematology= Essential haematology 4th or 5th edition, by Victor Hoffbrand

Pharmacology= Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, By Katzung the 9th edition or 10th do you have any idea if the 9th edition is better, or the 10th?
I've also found a review book "Katzung and Trevor's Pharmacology Examination and Board Review" do you think it is worth buying ??!


Immunology= Immunology, Fifth Edition by Richard A. Goldsby, Thomas J. Kindt, Barbara A. Osborne,and Janice Kuby.
But I think this book is very old, don't you agree ?!!

Neuroanatomy= Neuroanatomy, 3rd, by Crossman..


Also, do you guys have any suggestions for Microbiology, Neurophysiology, and Clinical Biochemistry textbooks ??

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[IHeartNerds]

You need to figure out if you are a "learn from the review book" person, or one who needs a full-out textbook. Most of those mentioned would kill me from boredom, because extraneous words just get to me.

A few of my favorite texts from MS1-2 --

Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases, Blumenfeld. This book will blow your mind. You will be better at neuroanatomy than neurologists. It's also well-written. My most precious text from the preclinical years 👍👍👍

For immunology, I recommend the back half of the book "Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology", published by LANGE. It is a simple and concise summary of important immuno topics (two words that don't often go along with immunology). The front half of the book isn't bad for micro either.

For pathology, I went with BRS/Rapid review. All true "texts" were way too long for my attention span. That being said, I would sometimes grab extra details from Big Robbins to which my school has online access. See if you get MDconsult.com access -- it's on there.

Pharm -- Lippincott's illustrated review. I found this book after the preclinical years and it rocked my world. Very good if you're a visual learner.

 

[TexasPhysician]

All of your are more like good reference books.

NOT to be used for Step 1.

For Step 1: Rapid Review Path, BRS Phys, First Aid

 

[146233]

I was a big fan of Sidman's Neuroanatomy.