mezzamorra Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 Hey current UWOers, I'm trying to budget out the coming year, and was wondering how much you spent on textbooks/equipment in your first year? I've heard from some people that they bought few if any texts, and just wanted to confirm this. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 Hey current UWOers, I'm trying to budget out the coming year, and was wondering how much you spent on textbooks/equipment in your first year? I've heard from some people that they bought few if any texts, and just wanted to confirm this. Thanks! Here's what I bought during my first two years, in very round figures... Stethoscope - $150 -- wait until the equipment sale in the fall to buy it Netter (anatomy) $100 Rohan (anatomy) $100 -- most people buy one or the other, I bought both Guyton (physiololgy) $100 -- I didn't have a background in physiology Dubin (EKGs) < $100 -- some people love it, some people hate it Toronto Notes $100 Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple $50 And that's pretty much it for the books and equipment I bought. I used Harrison's quite frequently in second year, but it's available online, as are many other texts. You get lecture notes/slides for every lecture. They're of mixed quality, but pretty much everything you need is in them. Flan will send you a letter mid-summer telling you to buy a biochem book. Don't. Also don't buy the genetics text that Dr. Siu, God bless her, recommends. If you're going to buy a clinical skills textbook, *don't* buy whatever the recommended one is (I'm blanking on the name). There's a British one that a few people in my class whose opinion I really respect spoke highly of, but I forget what it is, too. For clinical I just used the little black U of T book, mostly 'cuz I could carry it on the wards and jot notes in it. It seems to have worked out for me. I dropped $100 on a nice set of bp cuffs that I'll never use unless I start making house-calls. Don't buy the $$$ panoptic gizswatch optho-oto-roto-rooter thingie, at least not for use in school. pb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezzamorra Posted June 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 thanks a lot for your feedback. i already have a biochem textbook that is heavy enough to kill a man, so i likely won't be buying another one anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinknoodle Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 pb, for the clinical text, are you thinking of Talley and O'Connor? I think it is Aussie but it gets my blessing. I was not a fan of Bates (recommended text) but did like Swartz instead. I didn't find I bought a lot fo texts in preclerkship. Pretty much the same as pb. I purchased a lot more books for clerkship, mainly from the Case Files series. I found it helpful to solidify the clinical info through cases after reading through the Toronto Notes. For clerkship, I also bought On Call Principles and Protocols, Washington Manual, Surgical Recall, and Pocket Medicine. These cost ~$45 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 bn - I think that's what I was thinking of. Thx for the clerkship book recs. To the original poster - While packing up my bookshelf, I discovered that I also bought Abbas for Immunology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Oh geez, and John Best's Resp book too (highly recommended). I didn't realize I was such a texbook trollop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 ...and Dr. Robinson gave me a copy of Acrostics for Psychiatric Diagnostics. While I appreciate the thought, I have to admit that I find the book perfectly useless. I can sometimes remember the acrostics, but never what they stand for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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