 | First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2008 (First Aid USMLE) by Tao Le
Buy used from: $19.99 A MUST HAVE. Buy this immediately and study from it as you progress through your first two years of medical school. If you know this book forwards and backwards you will DOMINATE Step 1.
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 | Personal Finance for the New Physician -- Money Management for Residency and Beyond by Daniel R. Lefebvre
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $42.02 Definitely should read this; there is so much about personal finance (student loans, housing, insurance, cars, investing for retirement, etc.) that medical students and residents don't know but should know. This book explains it all clearly and efficiently.
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 | Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Medmaster) by Mark Gladwin
Buy new: $28.01 / Used from: $18.94 I struggled with micro until I found this book!
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 | Atlas of Human Anatomy: With Netteranatomy.com (Netter Basic Science) by Frank H. Netter MD
Buy new: $64.75 / Used from: $55.57 Is it even possible to get through anatomy without this? The drawings really help delineate the different structures and helps one to make sense of it all. But I think this should be used in combination with an anatomy photo atlas.
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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: $59.00 / Used from: $47.35 Real photographs from human cadavers. Huge help with dissections and taking an image from the Netter atlas and seeing what it actually looks like in your cadaver. Excellent resource with great quality photographs.
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 | First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK (First Aid USMLE) by Tao Le
Buy new: $40.45 / Used from: $20.00 Know this for Step 2 CK. There really is no other way around it.
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 | First Aid for the® USMLE Step 2 CS: Clinical Skills Exam (First Aid USMLE) by Tao Le
Buy new: $40.45 / Used from: $17.00 The case examples are very important to understand--they are extremely similar to what you will be presented with during the actual simulated patient exams.
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 | Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition by Anthony S. Fauci
Buy new: $133.12 / Used from: $109.84 THE book of medicine. Key to getting through pathophysiology class and for reading up on patients who you see once on the wards. You can also get it in an edited PDA version, which I found very useful while on the floors.
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 | Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) by Marc S Sabatine
Buy new: $46.71 / Used from: $28.80 don't even think about stepping onto the floors (especially on an internal medicine rotation) without this. Invaluable during internship as well. It's basically like having your own medicine consult in your pocket.
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 | Crush Step 3 (Brochert, Crush Step 3) by Adam Brochert
Buy new: $29.88 / Used from: $0.25 probably the best review for USMLE Step 3. Start reading this at the end of fourth year and aim to get Step 3 out of the way sometime during internship.
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 | First Aid for the Wards by Tao Le
Buy used from: $0.97 great overview for the different rotations that you will do. Read each section prior to starting that specialty and you will have a decent foundation in order to hit the ground running.
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