Which are the MUST HAVE books for M1 courses

[medready2005]

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[bobmarley77]

Anatomy: Clinical Anat Made Rid Simple, BRS Anatomy, Look into Acland's DVD atlas of Human Anatomy (or see if they have it at your library), Netter's Atlas (Grant's has text along with figures but Netter is still king), and Grant's Dissector. Some people have those flash cards showing the muscle attachments..you need to have a good visual of where everything is. Do the clinical boxes in whatever texbook you buy. Cool website: www.instantanatomy.com

Lippincotts for Biochem

High Yield Neuro

BRS Physiology

Histo...can't help you there (just used the textbook)...BRS may be good

High Yield Embryology

 

[medready2005]

After listening to some advice and doing a little research, I have come up with a tentative list of books that I will get for M1. Please let me know if I am on point or if all this is just overkill. Thanks for the help upperclassmen. Here is the list:

Anatomy
Netter Atlas
Moore and Dalley
Chung (BRS Anatomy)
Rohen Color Atlas
High Yield Embryology
High Yield Histology

Physiology
Lange- Review of Medical Physiology
Costanzo (BRS Physio.)

GI or Biochem
Lippincott's
High Yield Biochem.

Renal
Acid-Base, fluids Made Ridiciously Simple (along with other phsyio books metioned above)

Neuroscience
High Yield Neuroanatomy
The Human Brain: An Intro. to Functional Anatomy
Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases

 

[Darth Asclepius]

I took anatomy this summer and while the High Yield books and Anatomy Made Simple were helpful, the "must have" book for me was Rohen's Atlas. (Netter's was a given as it was a gift from our Alumni Association and a copy was at every table in the lab). Rohen's is great because learning from a drawing, no matter how good it is, is not the same as seeing the structure in a cadaver, and sometimes you just don't want to go into the lab when you want to study for the practical. I suggest buying a used copy or old edition online because it's really expensive new at your bookstore.

 

[ZappBrannigan]

Before buying these books, how easy is it to get them from M2's? Are they usually generous with selling first year books?

 

[MorningGlory]

Since the search function is down it's too bad we can't look back to see the past posts on this topic. Someone should create a poll for popular books so we can see which ones are most recommended instead of "in addition to the books mentioned above" kind of posts. It's hard when everyone lists books and you can't tell which ones are actually "the best."

Any kind soul out there feel like giving it a go? I'm deficient in the poll-creating gene.

 

[jendc08]

After listening to some advice and doing a little research, I have come up with a tentative list of books that I will get for M1. Please let me know if I am on point or if all this is just overkill. Thanks for the help upperclassmen. Here is the list:

Anatomy
Netter Atlas
Moore and Dalley
Chung (BRS Anatomy)
Rohen Color Atlas
High Yield Embryology
High Yield Histology

Physiology
Lange- Review of Medical Physiology
Costanzo (BRS Physio.)

GI or Biochem
Lippincott's
High Yield Biochem.

Renal
Acid-Base, fluids Made Ridiciously Simple (along with other phsyio books metioned above)

Neuroscience
High Yield Neuroanatomy
The Human Brain: An Intro. to Functional Anatomy
Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases

Ok that is ridiculous overkill for books. Usually IF I bought a book, I tried to limit it to one per class, not 6!! You probably will not have time for that or will make yourself miserable. Here is what I used:

Anatomy: Rohen and Netters (These are great!)
Histology: some recommended book for the class, nothing special I think any atlas would have been fine.
Neuro: Nothing!
Embryo: Nothing!
Physiology: Costanzo (great!)
Biochem: Lippincott (mediocre, but paperback and not expensive)
Immunology: Parham (prof recommended)

My best advice would be just to wait till you get started and not get soooo excited buying every book in site! 😱

 

[dancindr]

I mostly used class notes for 1st year, but here are the books i did use

anatomy: netter and rohen!!!
histo: any atlas (we used one on cd)
physio: costanza! brs and textbook
embryo: used langman's, but it was even overkill
biochem: college text just for reference (don't try to learn more than they teach in class, you'll kill yourself...and i majored in biochem)
genetics: none
cell: none
i didn't buy the physical diagnosis book but kind of wish i would have; you could probably share one though
immuno: none

 

[Skichic56]

If I already have Lehninger, is Lippincotts necessary/more relevant? should goljan be saved until reviewing for step 1? Thanks!

 

[jendc08]

If I already have Lehninger, is Lippincotts necessary/more relevant? should goljan be saved until reviewing for step 1? Thanks!

That book is bigger and from what I have seem more thorough than Lippincotts, so I wouldnt bother getting both. I havent seen goljan so I dont know about that one...

 

[Iwy Em Hotep]

If I already have Lehninger, is Lippincotts necessary/more relevant? should goljan be saved until reviewing for step 1? Thanks!

Please. Lehninger is for budding biochemists. It's thick and heavy and contains way too much unnecessary information.

Lippincott is perfect.

 

[Realest]

bumpers

 

[DukeDoc08]

There were only four books that, in retrospect, I would not have survived 1st year without....
Rohen Color Atlas of Anatomy
Lippincott Biochemistry 3rd edition
(and Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards)
Human Structure (the book is an inside joke, but w/o you will fail at Duke)
and some kind of Histology Atlas (I sold mine so I'm not sure which one I used)

these I used a medium amount but could have survived without...
First Aid for Step I (great for last sec studying)
Physiology (Costanzo 2nd ed)
One of Robbins Pathology books (I have commented several times that big Robbins is a no-no, but baby Robbins would have been perfect)

If you like outlines, then BRS are good/ beware, according to my physiology prof the physiology one has a lot of little errors (3rd edition)

 

[Realest]

Great thread. I was also wondering, when did you guys buy books - before, during, or after orientation - and from where - online, M2s, brand new?

 

[sakura181]

Great thread. I was also wondering, when did you guys buy books - before, during, or after orientation - and from where - online, M2s, brand new?

Is the 3rd edition of Lippincott significantly better than the 2nd (from 1994) to justify the higher price? Same question goes for First Aid.

 

[wends]

i think some schools have a book exchange thingy where second years sell books to first years. i havent really bought textbooks since second year of undergrad 😳 wait till school starts to get the DL on books

should I lug my lehninger to school? i have one from undergrad and want to save money

 

[pratik7]

Is the 3rd edition of Lippincott significantly better than the 2nd (from 1994) to justify the higher price? Same question goes for First Aid.

I think the biggest difference is that the 3rd edition is in color. I havent read the 3rd edition, but i would assume that most of the content is the same.

 

[medready2005]

Thanks for the responses everyone!!

The reason I listed sooooo many books (mostly review books) is because I was told by some M2s that it would to helpful to get some board books during first year in order to gain some familiarity with the material that would be tested on the boards and that they would help out for some last mintue studying. Opinions anyone????

Thanks for the help everyone!!!!

 

[donnyfire]

Before buying these books, how easy is it to get them from M2's? Are they usually generous with selling first year books?

At MCW, often your big sib (M-2) may lend you the books, if they actually bought them themselves and didn't get them from other upperclassmen (er, upperclasspeople 😉 ).

 

[fotolilith]

First Aid for the USMLE!

Go over the topics in this book, because they are the ones most likely to be tested in your classes/ Step 1. Studying from First Aid while in the courses helped a lot of my now second year friends, and helped me when I started classes/tests this summer.

 

[medready2005]

I'm really glad this thread took off.......On behalf of all my fellow M1s I want to thank all the "upperclasspeople" for their input and wisdom. 🙂 🙂 🙂

 

[callendm]

Do not buy every book in site unless you are on scholarship. Just because you own it doesn’t mean you will learn it. Mounds of books will probably confuse the crap out of you...The following books worked great for me. You can take my advice with a grain of salt but I did honor 7 out of the 8 first year courses. So hopefully I know what I am talking about...haha...Also, talk to second years to figure out what is going on at your school. Best advice I can give you is be active when you study. If that is writing everything down or drawing pictures it will really help. Also, do not freak out if you do not do great on your first exam. You ARE SMART or you wouldn't be here.

ANATOMY...do not overkill, get the best (NETTER)...learn it pat and you will honor the course....with that being said I had a lot of books (free $) and here is what I USED: 1. Netter (essential), 2. Rohen (after you know Netter) , 3. Grant (if Netter didn't cover a certain angle)...and here is what I had and DIDN'T USE...4. Moore (text and anatomy...boo, clinical blue boxes good), 5. Chang BRS (anatomy is straight forward, no need to make something simplified before you learn it, will help when boards come around) 6. Netter flash cards (you already have all the plates in the netter, no point) 7. Grant Dissector (chances or someone else will have one)

***OTHER FIRST YEAR COURSES: Most other first year courses are full of piles of syllabus. These will suck most of your time. If you are still standing here are some books that will help***

Neuroanatomy: Basic Clincial Neuroanatomy (Young and Young)...I can't say enough about this book. I will leave it at that. Of course you will need a atlas as well (any will do)

Physiology: Costanza (BRS)...This really helped with the year long comp. final (basically, made the material dueable vs. 5 huge notebooks worth of a syllabus) ***I had a Guyton that I only referred to for cardio...classmates used it more though***

Biochemsitry: You will not have time to read text far from your syllabus. Your undergrad text will be way way too dense for this class. I really rocked this course spending about a million hours going over the syllabus SLOWLY. I found it VERY VERY helpful to take 1/2 a piece of paper for each lecture (write small). Go through the lecture and turn each concept/pathway into one long flowing chart...ie your own cool outline. Be active with biochem...do not just read-highlight-reread. Too much info for this...you need to chunk it in your head somehow. I did this with the half piece of paper concept. This really helped studying for each test/final

The rest of your courses should be pretty straight forward. One more thing. Do not feel that you have to read everything to do well in a class. You will end up wasting your time learning pointless info that some Ph.d guest lecture high speed individual will throw at you just to vindicate their superior intelligence on minutia. Do not fall into this trap, it will never come up on boards, and you will run out of time to learn the important stuff. Study efficiently, and try to lose the type A (we all have it)!

 

[marooner]

i'm not a fan of lengthy books...

for anatomy i used netter and pansky
for histology wheater's histo
for physio... just listen to lectures... or guyton...
for biochem, lippincott is the best!
neuro, i only used manter and gatz and lecture notes, i also used de myer for neurologic exam