What Books?

[bodonid]

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I just got $600 in medical gift certificates on a website that expires in a week. The site has limited medical equipment, but any medical book you could want. What books would be indispensible (that I would need to buy anyway) for medical school?

The only books I have now are
Robbins Pathology 7th Ed.
Molecular Cell Biology, Lodish et al.

Should I buy USMLE review books or texts? Is this information readily available from most colleges? (I will be going to MCG. Would I be able to ask someone?)

 

[Na1a]

Netter's Anatomy and Netter's Anatomy flashcards (I found the latter pretty useful).

 

[SeventhSon]

I just got $600 in medical gift certificates on a website that expires in a week. The site has limited medical equipment, but any medical book you could want. What books would be indispensible (that I would need to buy anyway) for medical school?

The only books I have now are
Robbins Pathology 7th Ed.
Molecular Cell Biology, Lodish et al.

Should I buy USMLE review books or texts? Is this information readily available from most colleges? (I will be going to MCG. Would I be able to ask someone?)

This really depends on your school. I would say get an anatomy atlas (i dont have any experience with anything other than netters), for sure get robbins, i would not necessarily recommend Lodish based on what your school does.

It really depends on your school. If I were you I would get a stethoscope, Robbins, First Aid, Netters, Robbins Review of Pathology (question book), BRS Physiology, and Rapid Review of Pathology (Goljan)

Other than that, it depends on if your school closely follows any particular book. Other books that may be good based on your school... some really standard ones are:

Lippincott Biochem
Essential Clinical Anatomy (Moore)
Katzung Pharmacology
Costanzo Physiology

hope you get some more opinions. Ask people at your med school which books were useful for them...

 

[incubate6times]

Go to half.com, see which medical textbook is reselling for the most. Buy x number of copies of that book, sell books on half. Use money to buy any books you need (used, to save money).

 

[bodonid]

Go to half.com, see which medical textbook is reselling for the most. Buy x number of copies of that book, sell books on half. Use money to buy any books you need (used, to save money).

Good idea, but I don't get a certain number of books, I get a certain number of dollars, so it would all work out the same anyway.

Edit- I guess you are just saying that to cut down on shipping cost for individual items. Yes, that sounds like a good idea, but I honestly don't feel like it. But I really hadn't thought of that, and I will certainly consider it.

 

[bodonid]

Thanks for the responses! I got BRS physiology, anatomy atlas & flashcards, and I spent the rest on resellable stuff. Hope it isn't too much trouble, but of course I can use the money.

 

[Haemulon]

1. Good physiology text (Like Guyton or Costanza)
2. Good anatomy atlas like Netter or Grant's (also a photo atlas like Rohen is helpful)
3. Your favorite Histology text/atlas
4. A reference for looking up molecular bio type info (you probably have something decent already laying around from undergrad).
5. The dreaded Neuro text .... find a good one (I like Steward, also Young and Young)

That should give you a good start on 1st year

 

[bodonid]

1. Good physiology text (Like Guyton or Costanza)
2. Good anatomy atlas like Netter or Grant's (also a photo atlas like Rohen is helpful)
3. Your favorite Histology text/atlas
4. A reference for looking up molecular bio type info (you probably have something decent already laying around from undergrad).
5. The dreaded Neuro text .... find a good one (I like Steward, also Young and Young)

That should give you a good start on 1st year

thanks again- i kind-of regret buying costanzo's BRS, the actual textbook is only $10 more. I have a mol. bio text and Lodish's Cell, so that should be taken care of, and I have the book called "Neuroscience" (not sure on authors). Bought Netter's w/ the aforementioned gift certificates, and I'll have to look into Histo. Thanks for the response.

 

[Haemulon]

thanks again- i kind-of regret buying costanzo's BRS, the actual textbook is only $10 more. I have a mol. bio text and Lodish's Cell, so that should be taken care of, and I have the book called "Neuroscience" (not sure on authors). Bought Netter's w/ the aforementioned gift certificates, and I'll have to look into Histo. Thanks for the response.

No prob. But check with your school to see what their recommended texts are as well. If you have no other reasons to choose one book over another, might as well go with the one they require/recommend.

Another piece of advice that I can offer is that it is unlikely that pre-reading before med school starts will do you all that much good. Just enjoy your time before then. Maybe a week or so before classes start you can look over assigned readings for the first week if you have your syllabus in advance of classes, but even this is not required to do well. Also, some schools assign upper classman as big-brothers / big-sisters to the new class. They may even give you some of their old books. (although I did not get any ... sigh).

 

[erin682]

I'm an mcg student, but I'll qualify since I'm a 4th year and a fair bit might have changed since I was in the classroom. I would definitely go ahead and get Netter's but wait on a physiology book because that the one class that follows the text pretty closely, or at least it did. We used Wheater's functional histology which is a pretty good book and I think sometimes test questions came straight from it. Also, First aid for step 1 so you can go ahead and start making notes in it from day 1. I think a lot of people also used Lippincotts for biochem even though its not on any official lists. Neuro is actually one of the things mcg does best, so I wouldn't get anything until you see the books they want. Good luck!

 

[bodonid]

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Do you want to be best friends? Thank you very much. I really appreciate the response. Glad to hear about neuro, I was a bit underwhelmed with my performance in my undergrad class (which got me worried about the med school class), and this puts my mind at rest... for now. Thanks.

 

[erin682]

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Do you want to be best friends? Thank you very much. I really appreciate the response. Glad to hear about neuro, I was a bit underwhelmed with my performance in my undergrad class (which got me worried about the med school class), and this puts my mind at rest... for now. Thanks.

Yes, well rest you mind while you still can.😀 Feel free to pm me with any other questions you have. I've talked to other incoming students over the past couple of years and could probably give you some names of people on SDN who have been there more recently than me as well.

 

[Doctor J]

I just got $600 in medical gift certificates on a website that expires in a week. The site has limited medical equipment, but any medical book you could want. What books would be indispensible (that I would need to buy anyway) for medical school?

The only books I have now are
Robbins Pathology 7th Ed.
Molecular Cell Biology, Lodish et al.

Should I buy USMLE review books or texts? Is this information readily available from most colleges? (I will be going to MCG. Would I be able to ask someone?)

Too late now but I would highly recommend Harrison's Internal Medicine text... It is monstrously detailed, but having it in your home office is super valuable when you're correlating information from disparate lectures to what's really important. You will use it (or something like it) all of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year.