Textbooks: the Good, the Bad, and the Useless

[RLL]

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For all current or former med students, which textbooks did you use in school and how helpful were they? If you want to share, please list the name of the book and what you would rank it on a 1-5 scale measuring usefulness...

5= an excellent resource
4= good, but not great
3= average
2= mediocre
1= complete waste of my time

If you would like to include reasoning for your rankings, please do! And please indicate if the book was a required text or if it was a review material you sought out on your own. Thanks!

P.S. I know there have been many book posts, but I thought a more organized one would be helpful for us pre-meds to know which materials are worth investing in. Thanks for being patient with us! 🙂

 

[DW]

5: Anything with "Costanzo" on it for phys (the regular text, BRS, and cases) great books for physiology, and supposedly going to be very useful for the boards

negative 100 billion: Any hardcover biochem text, i.e. Stryer. get Lippincott's if anything for biochem

 

[irish79]

5: Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body
Johannes W Rohen MD; Chihiro Yokochi MD; Elke L?tjen-Drecoll MD; Lynn J Romrell PhD

I loved this book. It afforded me the ability to study anatomy without having to go into the lab and look at my cadaver all the time.