The best $15 you'll spend in medical school

[repititionition]

Is having your First Aid and Pathoma spiral-bound.

Thank me later.

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[Microshaft]

thx dood

 

[darknecrosforte]

Spiral? Or hole punched for placement in a binder?

 

[scoKraz4]

Goto fedex kinkos get it spiraled

 

[masaraksh]

memorizing first aid: priceless

 

[jqueb29]

Idk i spent $15 at Panda Express for a post-anatomy feast last year and I was pretty pleased with that investment.

 

[nycement1]

srs quetion, spiral bound as opposed to what? and why is it good

If you looking at the 'extreme ends' of a book (i.e., first 10% or last 10%), the book won't keep flipping back closed. Makes it much easier to just lay the book flat.

 

[seminoma]

$15 is way too much to have 2 books spiral bound. Anyway, the smarter thing to do would be leave them as is and spend the $15 on beer.

 

[sloop]

Yeah, seriously. Time spent getting your books spiral bound is time that could be spent reading or drinking.

I never really understood the obsession with ripping perfectly good books apart and putting them back together.

 

[Dave89]

Based purely on guesswork, I'd say that in my class, there was a negative correlation between number of spiral-bound books and Step scores.

 

[repititionition]

Based purely on guesswork, I'd say that in my class, there was a negative correlation between number of spiral-bound books and Step scores.

The real negative correlation is # of colored pens used to take notes/annotate

 

[DoReMiFaSo]

ripping perfectly good books apart and putting them back together.

I'm all about that life -.- ... #bossnerd #sad

 

[charmiedermie]

Is having your First Aid and Pathoma spiral-bound.

Thank me later.

Even if you went to Kinko's, which is more expensive, there is no way you could have paid $15 just to have the spines of 2 books cut off and then spiral bound. You greatly overpaid.

 

[charmiedermie]

Spiral? Or hole punched for placement in a binder?

Spiralbound because you will be flipping thru the pages a lot. Also easy to carry and place in the Prometric locker.

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

I broke up FA into sections (with dividers) and had it hole-punched and placed in a binder. It would be cool if it could also have dividers and be spiral bound instead of what I did. Toward the end of second year I was definitely ripping pages.

 

[darknecrosforte]

And I'm assuming not the flimsy wire spiraling, correct? Have not visited a Kinkos in years. I imagine thicker plastic. Will look at stuff on their site right now also.

Spiralbound because you will be flipping thru the pages a lot. Also easy to carry and place in the Prometric locker.

I broke up FA into sections (with dividers) and had it hole-punched and placed in a binder. It would be cool if it could also have dividers and be spiral bound instead of what I did. Toward the end of second year I was definitely ripping pages.

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

And I'm assuming not the flimsy wire spiraling, correct? Have not visited a Kinkos in years. I imagine thicker plastic. Will look at stuff on their site right now also.

My friends who bought the plastic-wire spiral did fine, it was the flat-thin plastic spiral material I was told to avoid (the kind that only wraps around the holes, not spiraling through the whole book --see below)

This is fine:

AVOID:

 

[charmiedermie]

And I'm assuming not the flimsy wire spiraling, correct? Have not visited a Kinkos in years. I imagine thicker plastic. Will look at stuff on their site right now also.

They called it coil binding like the pic of the one above with the red cover. It did a fantastic job with no tears, no matter how much flipping and annotation you do.