 | First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2008 (First Aid for the Usmle Step 1) by Tao Le
Buy new: $36.02 / Used from: $35.07 An absolute necessity... as is Kaplan... both of which are handy from day 1 of med school to follow class. Don't bother with '1st Aid for Step 2' - get 'USMLE Step 2 Secrets' instead.
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 | Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Thumb Index) by Donald Venes
Buy new: $27.68 / Used from: $27.95 I have this and Stedman's. They complement each other nicely, but I tend to find more help in Taber's, and it's easier to carry.
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 | BRS Gross Anatomy (Board Review Series) by Kyung Won Chung
Buy new: $34.58 / Used from: $29.99 You'll need Netter (ISBN 1929007159), Rohen (below), Moore (below) and Grant's Dissector. And this for the 30 minutes of cramming before the exam.
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 | Clinically Oriented Anatomy (5th Edition) by Keith L Moore
Buy new: $69.33 / Used from: $60.00 Read the first chapter really really well and have it down backwards and forwards before you start med school... then the rest will come a bit easier.
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 | Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body (Color Atlas of Anatomy (Rohen)) by Johannes W Rohen
Buy new: $53.32 / Used from: $47.43 If nerves were yellow, arteries were red, and veins were blue, then anatomy would be much easier... but they're not - they're all pretty much brown - and this book helps you distinguish things.
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 | Langman's Medical Embryology by Thomas W Sadler
Buy new: $53.45 / Used from: $37.00 Embryology can be tough to get your head around, but Langman's pictures help keep your mesoderm separated from your ectoderm.
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 | Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series) by Pamela C Champe
Buy new: $48.33 / Used from: $45.31 This is the only book you need to memorize to pass Biochem... and it's thin. Save the heavy textbook money for Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology. This newest edition is hot off the presses!
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 | Textbook of Medical Physiology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Textbook of Medical Physiology) by Arthur C. Guyton
Buy new: $80.38 / Used from: $70.25 When your professor makes no sense (or you slept through class), this book has the answers. Ganong is good for quick reference.
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 | Rapid Interpretation of EKG's, Sixth Edition by Dale Dubin
Buy new: $32.73 / Used from: $33.30 Unusually easy to understand, & you'll use it on the floors when the attending throws you an EKG and says, "What do you see?". The answer invariably includes an axis deviation or hyperkalemia.
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 | Textbook of Physical Diagnosis: History and Examination With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Textbook of Physical Diagnosis (Swartz)) by Mark H. Swartz
Buy new: $63.72 / Used from: $62.00 Much more thorough than Bates, with more useful information. This is the only truly complete physical exam book out there and if more docs learned the material in this, I wouldn't shake my head so often while rounding.
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 | How the Immune System Works (How It Works) (2nd Edition) by Lauren M. Sompayrac
Buy used from: $39.97 Immuno's complicated. Books that make it simpler will save you.
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 | Basic Histology: Text & Atlas (Basic Histology) by Luiz Carlos Junqueira
Buy new: $51.46 / Used from: $24.00 Junqueira is king of histo. Provides all of the info that other atlases don't about structure and function.
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 | Color Atlas of Histology (Color Atlas of Histology (Gartner)) by Leslie P Gartner
Buy new: $59.27 / Used from: $22.00 Lies flat next to the scope, easy to read, chock-full of great pictures with precise descriptions, small and comprehensive.
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 | Wheater's Basic Histopathology: A Color Atlas and Text (Basic Histopathology (Wheater's/ Burkitt)) by Alan Stevens
Buy new: $62.71 / Used from: $47.90 More great pictures. Needed for the class, Step 1, and the Pathology elective
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 | Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology, North American Edition (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series)
Buy new: $47.48 / Used from: $49.45 Use this as an adjunct to the Phunny Pharm (if you can get the Phunny Pharm!). Lange's Basic & Clinical Pharm is longer & more detailed.
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 | Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Medmaster) by Mark Gladwin
Buy new: $24.26 / Used from: $24.00 Memorize this, then memorize Kaplan's 3 pages on the drugs used to treat these bugs in their Step 2 Medicine notes.
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 | Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Seventh Edition by Vinay Kumar
Buy new: $80.38 / Used from: $85.00 More important than any book here, and easy to read! The pocket edition is not a replacement. Read the big one... twice. Did I mention this is the most important book here?
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 | Maxwell Quick Medical Reference (Maxwell, Quick Medical Reference Maxwell, Quick Medical Refe) by Robert W. Maxwell
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $5.65 In the hospital: This is in everyone's pocket - It's important. And it only has about 15 pages! While you're shopping for hospital stuff, pick up First Aid for the Wards - It's concise & handy.
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 | Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia 2008 Classic Shirt-pocket Edition (Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia) (Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia) by Tarascon Publishing
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.99 In the hospital: When your resident asks you to write orders for 17 medicines on one patient, you'll be glad you have this... also in everyone's pocket. Make sure you have this year's copy.
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 | The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, 2008 by David N. Gilbert
Buy new: $12.10 / Used from: $10.89 Which antibiotic for yersinia diarrhea? for a diabetic with cellulitis? And a non-diabetic with cellulitis? I showed up my chief with this book. Don't let people get the wrong drugs. Get this.
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| Medical Student's Pocket Reference by Ken, M.D. Bookstein
Buy used from: $9.00 Indispensable on rounds. It's a tiny little book with tiny little print and all the answers you could possibly need. It's frightening how much info is in this well-indexed treasure.
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| Blueprints Bundle (Blueprints) by Bradley S. Marino
Buy new: $144.10 / Used from: $149.35 Harrison's is too huge. Cecil's Essentials is nice, but still too hefty, and only about medicine. If you don't have Kaplan, this series is nice. Current Medical Dx & Tx (0071494308) is great.
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 | Felson's Principles of Chest Roentgenology Text with CD-ROM (Goodman, Felson's Principles of Chest Roentgenology) by Lawrence R. Goodman
Buy new: $50.14 / Used from: $50.00 When everyone assumes you can read a chest x-ray and you can only recognize that the patient indeed has a heart but that is all... this teaches you how to read it. Easy to read, good pictures.
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 | First Aid for the Wards by Tao Le
Buy new: $35.59 / Used from: $22.00 Wait - a surgery note isn't the same as a medicine note? What should I put in a progress note for a 6 month old? And what do they want from me????? This book answers those questions before you've screwed up in the first week trying to figure it out on your own. It gave me an edge over my lost fellow med students.
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 | Bratton's Family Medicine Board Review (Family Practice Board Review) by Robert L Bratton
Buy new: $71.29 / Used from: $65.93 Family medicine is the jack of all trades and master of none - which makes you feel like you have to study everything to pass the shelf exams... work through the questions and you'll pass. More questions in NMS Q&A (078179188X) were highly similar to the ones on the exam and the explanations were very good.
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 | Psychiatry Pretest (Pretest Series) by Debra L. Klamen
Buy new: $24.25 / Used from: $9.00 I only used this and Fadem's High Yield (ISBN 0781742684) in Psych. Get the whole PreTest series: Ob/Gyn, Surgery, Peds, Medicine... They fit in your pocket and are great for reviewing questions.
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 | Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics, 5E with STUDENT CONSULT Access Fifth Edition(Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics) by Karen Marcdante
Buy new: $64.03 / Used from: $51.81 The answers to the exam questions are in Blueprints and Kaplan and Pretest. Nelson's is a longer more detailed read for you overacheivers actually going into Peds. Essentials is well written and it's not as heavy as the real Nelson's.
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 | Surgical Recall (Recall Series)
Buy new: $40.45 / Used from: $33.98 As you're changing in the locker room to go into the case, you flip to the parathyroidectomy page and cram... In the OR, the Attending will ask you three of the questions you just read. Don't worry about what to read in surgery - just sleep and take your antidepressants. You'll be done soon.
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 | First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CS (First Aid for the USMLE Step 2: Clinical Skills) by Tao Le
Buy new: $36.09 / Used from: $34.00 Take the week long course at Kaplan if you must (I did) but more importantly - work through this book with a buddy and/or a teddy bear. Remember that this is an ACTING exam more about convincing non-medical ACTORS that you care about them than about getting the right diagnosis. Do the checklists!
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 | Iserson's Getting Into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students, 7th Edition by Kenneth V. Iserson
Buy new: $35.05 / Used from: $37.14 This and "How to Choose a Medical Specialty" by Taylor are great resources for those of us who don't have nepotism going for us. Get it at THE START of med school, so you can have some idea of what to do to get what you might eventually want. (90% of 1st years change their choice of specialty by the time of graduation.) Make an informed decision.
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