Monash MBBS Booklist

[drake]

hi guys,

i'm entering into the year 1 of the monash MBBS course this year and have seen the booklist, which is quite extensive: http://med.monash.edu.au/medical/central/docs/year1booklist.pdf

quite a few medicine students at monash have been saying that you definitely don't need to buy all of them... which ones do you (MBBS students) suggest to purchase? which ones are necessary and which ones are completely unnecessary?

thanks, drake

[thushan]

hi guys,

i'm entering into the year 1 of the monash MBBS course this year and have seen the booklist, which is quite extensive: http://med.monash.edu.au/medical/central/docs/year1booklist.pdf

quite a few medicine students at monash have been saying that you definitely don't need to buy all of them... which ones do you (MBBS students) suggest to purchase? which ones are necessary and which ones are completely unnecessary?

thanks, drake

Go to MUMUS (med students' society) website and there is a recommended booklist by MUMUS.

http://www.mumus.org

[alondouek]

pi gave a review of MED1011 over at Re: Monash University - Subject reviews & ratings in which he goes through which textbooks he found to be extremely useful, and those he found not to be so useful. Keep in mind that the textbooks may have changed since that review was made

[totaled]

definitely get a copy of Talley & O'Connor and a lot of the other textbooks you can get pdfs of

[pi]

For my pre-clin (* means book is readily available electronically in pdf or chm if you know the right people):
- Physiology textbook: Guyton and Hall* (the standard, lectures are made using this text), Physiology Costanzo* (good summary text)
- Anatomy: Clinically Oriented Anatomy* (standard), Netter's clinical anatomy* (handy anatomy text), General Anatomy Eizenberg* (written by a lecturer and he likes to use it), Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple* (very handy for med2042), Thieme Atlas and Textbook of Anatomy General Anatomy and Musculoskeletal System* (my pick of anatomy atlases for first year), Langman's Medical Embryology* (only if you're really keen)
- Clinical skills: Talley and O'Connor (the standard, you'll use this a lot), The ECG Made Easy 7th* (if you're keen, quite a good book)
- Pharmacology: Rang and Dale's Pharmacology* (lecture slides are usually enough for pharm anyway)
- Biochem: Life The Science of Biology* (only for med1011, not worth buying)
- Histology: Wheater's Functional Histology A Text and Colour Atlas* (only if you're very keen, prac handouts should be enough)

Yeah so lots floating around the net or with meddies already.

I personally bought in hard-copy Talley, Netter's clinical anatomy, clinically oriented anatomy, guyton and hall, rang and dale.

As Alon said, these might be of some interest to you:
med1011 - Re: Monash University - Subject reviews & ratings
med1022 - Re: Monash University - Subject reviews & ratings
med2031 - Re: Monash University - Subject reviews & ratings
med2042 - Re: Monash University - Subject reviews & ratings