PRICES FOR FIRST YEAR MED BOOKS

You can buy these at the ground floor of the Angelo King Building, or during your LOAD orientation. :)

Got this from the a batchmate of mine. :)

UPDATED: Med Books for Sale - ALL SOLD

Hey guys, I'm selling my 1st Year Med Books :)

For the original prices, these are the prices that were sold to me at school, or online. 
Moore, I hardly used it this year because I was more comfortable with Snell. Other classmates  used Moore more since it was more detailed and comprehensive when it came to discussions.

If interested, kindly message me here, first come, first serve. :) I can meet you guys up at school if you'd like or I can have them delivered to you via LBC. :)

UPDATED: Med Books for First Year- What You Really Need to Know

Note: Im also selling my old books, for those interested, here are the prices :) http://hopingtobeapinoymedstudent.blogspot.com/2013/04/med-books-for-sale.html


Ok, this was one problem that i encountered during my first year, which books to buy, the prices, which ones did the professors really use, etc?

FIRST, I would advise you NOT to buy all the books in one go, unless you know you are a bookworm, and you're studying habit involves reading every chapter instead of using reviewers.

Here are some books that I found most useful during my first year:

-  ANATOMY: the doctors use both Snell and Moore. Certain doctors rely solely on Snell, others on both. One book that you should buy is Netter. Cant Live without it, extremely useful during dissections, and if you area visual learner.


- BIOCHEMISTRY: you can use Harpers or Devlin. Harpers is straight to the point, a bit difficult to understand, but the chapters are short. Devlin discussesthe topics well, but the chapters are a bit long, so if you dontmind reading a lot, this is the book for you. One book that got me through biochem was Lippincott. Extremely easy to understand and a lot of pictures too. There's another booktoo, i'll try uploading it when i can, they call it Digging Up the bones for Biochem. Very very VERY helpful, short, concise, pretty much like Biochem for Dummies.

-PHYSIOLOGY: Guyton or Ganong. guyton is easy to understand but there are a lot of chapters to cover pertopic even if they're short. Its also non-science student friendly. Review of Medical Physio by Ganong is just what it says it is, its a REVIEW. Thats why its a bit difficult to understand, but very concise with their discussion. I used Guyton a lot.

- ANATOMY-Histology and Embryology.

 For histology, you must have an atlas for when you're looking at slides in microscopy. You can go for Wheater's, or Di Fiore. Personally, i liked Di Fiore, even though ididnt have one. By the time i knew di fiore was pretty good, i had already bought Wheaters. :)) most BS Human Bio students from La Salle Taft were already using this~nakitingin lang ako.

Aother thing, you guys should buy the Histology book by Dr. Edgardo Gonzales,  they sell it at school or cem bookstore. Doc Ed is a doctor lecturer so its really important to get this book. Everything he teaches is in this. Hahahaha hope you enjoy his class!

 Hahahahaha For Embryology, Langman's was pretty good with the discussions. And if you can get a copy of Kates- kind of like a booklet/reviewer made by the upper classmen and Doc Jah, its pretty good, and covers everything. Lang,an lacks certain info, while the Kates booklet lacks the small discussions of the processes, so i guess its better ifyou buy them both.

Ummm, cant remember what else, lemme know if you guys need more info regarding some other books. :)


Also, here's a link to Pinoy.Md of people selling second hand med books. Much much cheaper. :)

http://pinoy.md/ipb/index.php?showtopic=10098

Say Hello to My Little Friends: My Med Books

I finally bought my med books! I didn't buy all ten of them because...ahem...they were..ahem...too expensive. :))

 

Clinical Anatomy by Regions and Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, and Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy are must haves, as advised by the higher years, for Anatomy and Physio subjects.

They say Netter is a big big help when it comes to dissecting time. For Biochemistry, you can either choose from Thomas Devlin's Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, or Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry. Feedback from these 2 biochemistry books is that Harper's is more direct and doesnt explain most of the basic biochem stuff/concepts. Non-science majors might find it a bit more difficult to understand. Devlin, on the other hand, explains everything, and is very helpful for those who dont have a background in the hard sciences, or have never taken up biochem in college.

Of the two books, I still opted for Harper's even though I come from a non- pre-med course. Reasons are: 1) majority of the other students use Harper, as well as the professors, I just want to be on the same page (both literally and figuratively) when classes start. I dont want to get confused if I use Devlin while others use Harper. 2) They say that the board exams base their biochem questions on Harpers. I dont know if there's any truth to this, but one school who has had a 100% passing rate in the board exams have sworn by this.

Aren't they soooooo purdy?!?!?! :))

They are heavy as hell, and if I had to bring those to school everyday, I would probably have severe scoliosis by the end of the year. loljk.

I was able to get some of the books here at half price from 2nd and 3rd year students who weren't able to use them that much during their first year. I kinda had second thoughts about buying it when I realized that they were selling it because they were unused. Then again, one of the students explained that there were so many things that they needed to study at one time that they barely had enough time to read these books, and they just relied on a collection of tranx or transcriptions.

Tranx is a reviewer which is a combination of the teacher's actual lecture, and the book. So one student records the teachers whole lecture, transcribes it, matches additional information from the book, and voila! you have your tranx.

Why not just refrain from buying all the books and focus on the tranx? Well, for one thing, I dont want to get dependent on other people's work. Sure, I can make my own tranx for every single subject, but I doubt I'd have the willpower to actually do it, as well as the time involved.

These books will be my best friends for the next few years, I just hope that they'll love me back. :))

Updated: MED BOOKS and Download Links

Hey guys, sorry, had to delete the links, someone was informing me that they'd have me blocked if I didnt take it down. Oh well. :))

Just try searching the net for the books, there are always good torrent sites and file sharing sites like 4shared.com. :) 

Med Books...Y U SO EXPENSIVE?!

UPDATES: hahahaha, instead of buying them brand new, you can buy them from the upper years, a lot of my classmates are selling their old books. :) 

you can also trysearching on sulit.com.ph for 2nd hand med books, i bought some of them online too, reliable rin yung mga sellers doon. :)

The book alikes are pretty expensive now that i think about it. And from my personal experience. Dont buy all the books just yet. Try to borrow books first and see which ones you like or are more fitting.

P.s. check my other post regarding which med books are usually used during your first year here. :)  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


I enrolled last week, and going through several of the buildings, I found myself in the basement of the research center, where a spritely woman was selling our med books.

She handed me a piece of paper with all the books listed on it, with corresponding prices and discounted prices.

Hmmmm. Short list. Not bad. 

Miss..how much all in all?

Wait a moment, I'll just compute it all. Dont worry dear, its all the books for the whole year.

Uh oh. The woman, even though she hadn;t computed it all yet, was already trying to justify the price...

Php 23, 600.00 lang po. 

Poker face. 

Ah, ok po, thank you. I'll come back during start of classes to buy the books. 

Not. I was shocked with the prices. Well, in all fairness, there were like, 10 books, so around 2k each. But I've never bought that many books that totaled that amount, ever. 

So I decided to poke around the internet, look for ebooks, or at least, 2nd hand books that could soften the destructive force that these books would create on my parents wallet. 90% of the books could be downloaded within the day. The other 10%, niet. 

Common sites like 4shared.com, Demonoid.me, and Torrentz.eu were pretty good at finding these little suckers. You can also try typing "download free med books" and a hundred or so sites would just pop up, and provide you with links to several useful med books. 

With torrent sites, you can just type med books, and several torrents are there for downloading. single books are at 20-100mb in size only, while others, the really good ones, are bundled up with about a hundred or so other medical books that are really useful like USMLE lectures, notes, colored atlases, pdfs, and other tidbits.

I found one seller on sulit.com.ph that sold black and white, photocopied versions of the book. at nearly half the price or so. Although its not advisable for some books like colored atlases for anatomy, physio, and neuro, its still a pretty good deal for other books that you just need to read. 

In sulit, they describe it as:

What's a BOOK ALIKE?

♥ Photocopied medical books, hard-bound, covered like the original one BUT are a lot cheaper.

You can read more about them here.

1ST YEAR BOOKS
	VOLUMES	PRICE
Devlin's Textbook of Biochemistry (7th ed)	1	P1520
Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry (28th ed)	1	P1210
Berne & Levy's Physiology (6th ed)	1	P1250
Langman's Madical Embryology (11th ed)	1	P930
Snell's Clinical Neuroanatomy (7th ed)	1	P1050
Moore's Clinical Oriented Anatomy (6th ed)	1	P1460
2ND YEAR BOOKS
	VOLUMES	PRICE
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Diseases (8th ed)	2	P2350
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology - Katzung (11th ed)	1	P1500
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (18th ed)	3	P4460
Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking (10th ed)	1	P1350
Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry (10th ed)	1	P1680
Jawetz Medical Microbiology (25th ed)	1	P1250
Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (18th ed)	2	P3540
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery (9th ed)	2	P2620
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (12th ed)	2	P2770
POCKET GUIDES/ COMPANIONS/ “BABY” BOOKS
	PRICE
Pocket Companion to Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (11th ed)	P700
BRS Physiology	P450
Schwartz Manual of Surgery	P1300
Robbins and Cotran's Pathology Pocket Guide( 7th ed, with markings from original book)	P700
Harrison's Manual of Internal Medicine 17th ed  (2vols)	P700
Sabiston Textbook of Surgery Pocket Companion	P1000
Kaplan and Sadock's Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry (5th ed)	P950

Compare the book alike prices with this:

Not bad for some, right? I was thinking of different options rather than just buying them all from school since they were all sooooo expensive. 

And so I decided to buy the important ones (as upper classmen advised, the books that are important, are the ones you will need when you review for the boards). so out of the 12 books there, I just plan on buying 6 or 7 of them, and, since I have the ebook versions of the others, I just plan on buying a lot of paper, some black and colored ink, and voila! print my own textbook. 

Why not do it for all the books? Well, it would be a b*tch to just print 1,000 pages. And especially if they;re colored with super detailed drawings of the human body, I cant afford to have fuzzy images mess up with my studying. 

So I plan to print 4 or 5 of the books, chapter by chapter, going with the flow of teaching at school, instead of printing them all in one day. From Php23,600, I whittled it down to Php 14,000. I already have the super fast printer, all I need is the ink, and ink just costs about 350-400 bucks a cartridge. Thank youuuuu HP for being so sturdy and cheap. 

How about you guys?