What Physiology textbook does your school use?

[BerkeleyPremed]

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For Human Physiology this semester...we're using Vander, Sherman, & Luciano's Human Physiology:The Mechanisms of Body Function . The 9nth edition is re-written by Widmaier, Raff, and Strang.

Just out of curiosity..which textbook are you guys using? Also, do you find it informative or does it suck? The one I'm using is alright...it's just stuffed with lots of information that really isn't pertinent to the actual field (applications in exercise physiology, clinical applications, extra material on human anatomy, etc).

 

[Harps]

Originally posted by BerkeleyPremed
For Human Physiology this semester...we're using Vander, Sherman, & Luciano's Human Physiology:The Mechanisms of Body Function . The 9nth edition is re-written by Widmaier, Raff, and Strang.

Just out of curiosity..which textbook are you guys using? Also, do you find it informative or does it suck? The one I'm using is alright...it's just stuffed with lots of information that really isn't pertinent to the actual field (applications in exercise physiology, clinical applications, extra material on human anatomy, etc).

Human Physiology by Sherwood. I love this book! Provides excellent overviews, and thereafter plentiful details to satisfy students without overburdening them w/out irrelevant minutiae.

-Harps

 

[G_Eagle]

In my Human Physiology class, we used Arthur Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology. This was an excellent book that I have seen on multiple doctors's shelves (even right next to Harrison's Internal Medicine). I highly recommend it.

 

[lola]

pre-med school: we used the vander, sherman, & luciano book. i think it is a very good book and sometimes refer to it now. while that "extra stuff" may not be directly pertinent to physiology, it is very important to the study of medicine. i actually find that extra stuff makes the physiology more interesting!

med school: we don't have a book, only core notes.

 

[idq1i]

Boron Medical Physiology

 

[SoulRFlare]

Originally posted by Harps
Human Physiology by Sherwood. I love this book! Provides excellent overviews, and thereafter plentiful details to satisfy students without overburdening them w/out irrelevant minutiae.

-Harps

sherwood as well...especially like the train diagram illustrating pacemaker function

 

[SaltySqueegee]

Guyton's Med Physio, supplemented with Ganongs USMLE Physio Review provides for a very nice overview with all the essential details.

 

[Aptamer]

Originally posted by MDTom
Guyton's Med Physio, supplemented with Ganongs USMLE Physio Review provides for a very nice overview with all the essential details.

I've used Ganong's too. In the same class, I had used Silverthorn's Human Physiology. In another class, I used Vanders like others on this thread.

 

[robotdancing]

vander

 

[bella_dottoressa]

Vander and I think its awesome. My MS1 bf still consults Vander for more basic explanations of the topics he's covering in med for better understanding. Hang onto Vander! 🙂