UNSW booklist 2007

[Dorothea]

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Hey, I'm a soon to be medical student at UNSW from Malaysia.Does anyone here knows the 2007 booklist?or the titles of the books we are supposed to use?I would like to purchase the books in Malaysia as i heard thay are cheaper here.

 

[Ezekiel20]

Hey, I'm a soon to be medical student at UNSW from Malaysia.Does anyone here knows the 2007 booklist?or the titles of the books we are supposed to use?I would like to purchase the books in Malaysia as i heard thay are cheaper here.

Every uni will publish an offical booklist, but the most popular and widely used texts are pretty much the same around the world.

Here's my pick of essential/recommended texts for studying medicine in Australia.

General medicine
- Davidson's Practice and Principles of Medicine (an absolute must-have), OR
- Kumar and Clark's Medicine (an alternative to Davidson's, but most students prefer Davidson's)

Clinical examinations
- Talley and O'Connor Clinical Examinations (a compulsory at USYD, but I'm not sure which text UNSW uses, so check with them first)

Anatomy:
- Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy (a must have)
- Moore and Agur's Essential Clinical Anatomy (the 'baby Moore', much more readable than the 1200-odd page version)
- Acland's DVD Atlas of Human Anatomy (awesome visual reference, with life-like colours not the grey and mottled cadavers you'll see in the labs)

Pathology
- Robbins Basic Pathology (detailed and far from basic), OR
- Robbins Pathological Basis of Disease (the full version, too detailed to be useful in my opinion)

Immunology
- Basic Immunology, Abbas and Lichtman (again, far from basic and much more detailed than you'll need as a medical student)

Physiology
- Costanzo's Physiology (I read this text cover to cover many times - awesome text and very readable), OR
- Sherwood's Human Physiology: from cell to systems (very detailed, perhaps more detail than you will need)

Biochemistry
- no texts needed for this: the biochem included in most USMLE-preparation books (i.e a section about 20 pages or less) will be enough

Pharmacology
- Rang, Dale, Ritter & Moore Pharmacology (have this text from my undergrad, very detailed but I was a pharm major)
- Pharmacology at a glance (probably more useful to those new to pharm)

Microbiology
- Murray Medical Microbiology (again, had this from undergrad: quite useful as each chapter deals with a different genus, e.g Staphylococcus, etc)

Histology
- Ross Histology: probably better to borrow from library whenever need arises


Okay, that's about all I can think of right now. As I said above, the must-buys are Davidson's (or Kumar's), Netter's Atlas, a physiology text (Costanzo or Sherwood), Abbas Immunology, and Robbins Pathology (basic or full version). The rest is up to your discretion.

Have fun studying med at UNSW 👍

 

[Dorothea]

thank you=) that list helps a lot=)

 

[nathanesque]

Hi Dorothea...I'm a 4th year med at UNSW currently undergoing summer teaching...if you contact me by email I can send you the entire booklist that is required as a first year...if you have any questions about the course etc pls feel free to ask and I'm an international too...

Cheers!
[email protected]

 

[Soul_sista]

hey dorothea...

I'm going to be in 2nd year med in UNSW now. So far, I've bought :-

Physiology - Guyton and Hall

Pathology - Robbins Basic Pathology (Kumar, Cotran, Robbins)

Anatomy - Netter Atlas
- Moore and Dalley, Clinically Oriented anatomy

Embryology - Larsen, Human Embryology, 3rd ed (you use it only for BGD [beginnings, growth, and development])

Histology - Junqueira and Carneiro, Basic Histology: Text and Atlas

Microbiology - Mims, Playfair and Roitt, Medical Microbiology

Clinical and Comm skills - Epstein, Perkin, Cookson and deBono, Clinical Examination

These books will last me for the first phase (about 2 years), and I personally found them very helpful in terms of revision, especially for anatomy and histology (at risk of sounding too much of a nerd - it's my fav book!). And definitely buy them in Malaysia, that's where I've bought all my books from - it's cheaper, and you don't have to wait for the long queues in uni - or walk to the bookshop! The only problem is the weight limit for the flight. Do what I did - I found a nice family on the same flight to check in with (as I was travelling alone), and wasn't charged a thing! But I was lucky then, be prepared to pay for excess luggage. Alternatively, you could always post the books to your address in Australia, do it a week or so before you leave, so that it'll be there by the time you arrive. Hope this helps!

 

[jdefoe]

Thanks for the textbooks (especially Ezekiel20's)!