Using u-grad science text books for med school

[KaraKiz]

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I'm moving and wondering if I should hang on to some textbooks from college - orgo, biochem, microbiology, etc. I am planning to matriculate next fall. Did anyone who kept theirs actually find them useful in medical school or did you end up buying new textbooks anyway? I figure the info in them isnt really going to change in the next year or so, but they are really heavy.

Thanks in advance for your replies - you guys have been awesome!!

 

[DoctorFunk]

Burn burn burn those books. You won't even use full-length medical school specific texts most of the time--you definitely won't need old undergrad texts. Save the space for your impending tomes of course notes and review books.

 

[45408]

Keep the biochem. Ditch the rest.

 

[deleted77919]

Keep the biochem. Ditch the rest.

I second this. My biochem text was much better written than my current biochem class notes (those notes are important for knowing what to emphasize tho).

Maybe keep cell bio as well . . . (if you have one).

 

[KaraKiz]

You guys are great! I'll keep the biochem book and let the rest go (I don't have a cell bio book..)

To be honest, I was kind of attached to it anyway. Its the Leninger book, which as a biochem major, I was taught to cherish and worship as a sacred text. Wow, that sounds really sad... I guess admitting that you have a problem is the first step to recovery. Although, I'm not sure you ever recover from "nerd".. Then again, why would you want to? 😀

 

[deleted77919]

I used Garret and Grisham and to this day know all the chapter numbers. It's sad but it makes looking things up easier . . .

Speaking of sad biochem stuff . . . I thought this was pretty funny . . .

Someone in my med school class e-mailed this out to the list.

http://www.science-groove.org/Now/Glucose.mp3

 

[Brown429]

Question...how much cell biology is covered from undergrad?

I am debating whether to take cell molec. at a difficult school where you learn material well or at my state school which teaches just the basics?

 

[DrHuang]

Question...how much cell biology is covered from undergrad?

I am debating whether to take cell molec. at a difficult school where you learn material well or at my state school which teaches just the basics?

take the class that teaches the basics.

 

[DoctorFunk]

Question...how much cell biology is covered from undergrad?

I am debating whether to take cell molec. at a difficult school where you learn material well or at my state school which teaches just the basics?

The basics will be all you need heading into med school. I think it is definitely a worthwhile class to take during undergrad, but the details in the more extensive class will be long forgotten before you matriculate.

 

[bjackrian]

I also found my abnormal psych text from undergrad helpful.

 

[da8s0859q]

http://www.science-groove.org/Now/Glucose.mp3

Wow.

 

[Cirrus83]

Doesn't think depend on what textbook your undergrad used? I happen to know my undergrad Physiology textbook is the same one that they use at our med school, so I'd think it'd be pretty silly for me to burn it if it's the same thing.