Textbooks

[aubieRx]

This is a question for the pharm students: what are your textbooks for pharmacy school like? (not talkingabout general uni courses like microbio and biochem...the actual pharmacy courses).

Do you have one really large book on different types of drugs you use for multiple classes? Are the books more pricey than undergrad text books?


Do your professors test more from their notes or do they expect hard core book memorization

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[kristakoch]

This is a question for the pharm students: what are your textbooks for pharmacy school like? (not talkingabout general uni courses like microbio and biochem...the actual pharmacy courses).

Do you have one really large book on different types of drugs you use for multiple classes? Are the books more pricey than undergrad text books?


Do your professors test more from their notes or do they expect hard core book memorization

Basically....depends on the school....depends on the lecturer....depends on the topic. I have had some profs that say that reading in DiPiro's is just a supplement to the lecture, you can read it if you don't understand it. Others will make it mandatory and can ask you questions from that chapter. So, basically I would wait and see what your profs will be like. As for the other questions, yes there are large, and more expensive, books that are for pharmacy. We had to, and it has been most helpful on rotations, buy Dipiro's Therapeutics book (cost about $160). Other schools have you buy Koda Kimball's, Harrison's, and the list goes on. Again, it comes down to the school. And you usually don't have to buy them until your 2nd year, when you start in with the therapeutics stuff.

 

[ultracet]

anything in our required reading is far game on a test

 

[golf299]

we dont have any required texts