This is off-topic, but does anyone know where/how we get our books? Do students sell them back or to each other? I'm starting to put together a rough budget and wanted to get an idea of book costs.
Thanks for any info.
You can get them any where you want. As posted above you can get as many/few as you want. I bought a few different books, and barely bought one book. There is the medical bookstore on the first floor of the college and all books can be found there. But prices vary widely. Most of the books are not so much textbooks as just general ref books. They do have a few books that are used but only a few. The bookstore does give you a card to get two items a month at 10 percent off and a few sales through the year. Many of the books you can buy on amazon, bn.com or half.com for cheaper than the bookstore. I suggest waiting until you get to each block and see what books the block directer suggests you get. Some books I have barely even used and some I use much more often. But find what works for you and not just what review books or textbooks people say you have to have. Then go shopping online for the best price. Just be cautious of edition numbers.
Also the library has reserve copies that have to be left in the reference area of all the textbooks. Great way to see if the diagrams and summaries are helpful. I know Medman posted his booklist and I thought I would post mine as well
1. Boron WF, Boulpaep EL, editors.
Medical Physiology : A Cellular and Molecular Approach. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier, 2009 - Didnt use this book until CPR and while very dense its got great information, and diagrams are decent, I also like costanza as well
3. Kumar V, Abul KA, Fausto N, Robbins SL, Cotran RS.
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 7th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders, 2005 - The bible of medical school, 1500 pages I think and very very useful
7. Nolte, John.
The Human Brain: An Introduction to its Functional Anatomy. 6th ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby, 2009 - Got to have this book for neuro, lol He literally wrote the book that many med schools use for neuro courses. But all figures are the same from lectures
11. Young, Barbara.
Wheater's Functional Histology: A Text and Colour Atlas. 5th ed. Churchill Livingstone/ Elsevier, 2006 - Nice but I really dont use it, but everyone told me to get it, all the path pics are usually pretty well presented in lecture
13. Nolte, John.
Essentials of the Human Brain. Philadelphia: Mosby/Elsevier, 2009 - Nice summaries, but same diagrams as his book
14. Nolte, John, and Jay B. Angevine.
The Human Brain in Photographs and Diagrams. 3rd edition. Philadelphia: Mosby/Elsevier, 2007 - I couldnt have gotten the neuro anatomy questions on the quizzes with out this book
First-Aid for Step one - Dont think of it just for boards, but to also quickly review organ systems for block finals. Many handy mnemonics and tricks to get the material down.
Netters Anatomy - The other medical students bible. However its all illustrations, I also used Rohen for musculoskeletal since it is basically Netters but done with cadaver photos and labelled. But you might get funny looks from Starbucks staff when you study.
Langmans Embryology (Sadler) - So many schools use this for medical embryo. I found the random one or two lectures for some blocks confusing and I liked going through this book
