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| Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 6th ed |
Basic textbook for the lecture used mainly by Doc Decs, that he would ask in the exam. Doc Roxas uses Gray's Anatomy for her images mostly but basic information are similar and she usually asks questions that came from here lectures and for structures listed in her powerpoints. One very important "tip" for reading this book is to mark the "blue boxes" since several applications of learning basic anatomy is discussed in these blue boxes, located after every section of a chapter. Also, the images used in this book is sometimes small or lacking, so it is advisable to use pictures from the powerpoints used by Doc Decs and Doc Roxas or use Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy. It is advisable to use to doctor's powerpoints since they're edited, structures that are not important or repeating labels from prior lectures are removed.
For the Laboratory exams, atlas books can help you just a little bit less (in my experience) compared to videos and actual images of the cadavers and models. The books are
helpful for preliminary studying, knowing the general area where basic structures are located and the structures proximal to them. A better book for studying for the laboratory exams is McMinn's Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy, they're high-res, clear, actual images of cadavers that is very accurate. It's not entirely required but my friend bought one, and she got the highest score for the first lab exam (0.5 points nalang perfect na! nakalimutan lang niya yung popliteal artery....) plus, there's a single, rare, usually out copy of the book in the library, in the reserve section, so you can usually locate it's whereabouts easily enough though.
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| McMinn's Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy |
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| Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, 5th ed. |
For the 6th and Final block, a separate book is given to us, yeay!
Snell's Clinical Neuroanatomy can you believe that? A whole new book! In a month's time dude! talk about wtf!? right? Anyways, it doesn't help at all when the lecture's are also in depth and every little detail is presented to the class wherein little emphasis is made! @____@ everything is quite important you know> It is also frustrating sometimes that the lecture for Anatomy repeats itself in Physiology. The problem is, Physiology discussed it first, and they assumed that you know where/what the thing was...because Anatomy basically teaches us that right? oh well, everything will make sense in the end Hopefully, it would be a little different for the other batch, because Doc Decs thought only twice this time around. He also didn't contribute to the exams, shocker. Bluntly speaking, Anatomy is difficult for this block, the book however helps alot, the enemy for this block however is the lack of time... Considering the chapters for Physiology and Biochemistry practically requires another book to read too, your review schedule carefully working for the past 5 blocks could be compromised The book is very good, the question is if you could actually finish it! x_X which is very difficult, I could only finish 2 chapters sadly... my grade tanked this block mind you, Anatomy became my lowest grade, lower than prev med! *gasps!* For the block exam, Doc Opinaldo actually used pictures from the book! for the slide projection part of the exam. Book readers especially benefits from this fact you know.
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| Snell's Clinical Neuroanatomy 7th ed. |
Histology:
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| Junqueira's Basic Histology, Text & Atlas, 12th ed. |
For Histology, the school changed the book they give to scholars from previous years. Instead of Wheater's Functional Histology, A Text and Colour Atlas, they gave away Junqueira's Basic Histology Text and Atlas which is longer and provides a much more detailed lecture and description of various cells and tissues of the body, almost crossing over to physiological and biochemical discussions which is a difficult situation but at the same time a good thing. Difficult because, well, the exams became harder, (daw) sortof, but lectures sometimes repeat/similar from biochem and physio that you can master certain aspects of the lesson :) [paulit-ulit=consolidation of memory] Both books are actually quite lovely, I do like both honestly, they're a delight to read, but i slightly prefer Wheater's :) because of the pictures. Doc Quimbo integrated both books for his lectures, since the books has more or less the same content, (lamang nga lang si Hoonki) but the slight difference from Wheater's frinds its ways in the lecture (and exam) so just
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| Wheater's Functional Histology; A Text and Colour Atlas, 12th ed. |
basically read both books. Joke! you can stick to Hoonki since they would probably still give it this year naman eh. For the laboratory portion of Histo, take pictures of the slides! and take note of the organ, for the third block (respiratory system) since the nasal pharyngeas are included in this block, a slide of the pharynx includes a cut of a tooth, which Doc Quimbo naughtily marked. Only two (si Rank 1 tsaka isang med tech ) got the correct answer, shocker. For the 5th block, he marked a nerve which seemed out of place since the 5th block is all about the uroreproductive system, but I got it when he asked it, haha, after the 3rd block, i got wary of his shocking questions so I kind of expected it, a lot of us expected it, sooooo.... yehey!
For Embryology, buying Moore's The Developing Human is totally optional, almost everyone would say its totally worthless even. IMO, i kind of like the book. I think it would be helpful for 3rd year's Obstetrics though. It's up to you honestly, but my honest advice is to not buy it totally the library carries several copies if you need it just in case for trans-making needs.
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| Moore's The Developi |
Physiology:
You can practically pass Physiology, just treat Guyton as "The Bible" read it whole-heartedly and try to understand the hundreds of normal physiologic processes happening every millisecond in our body. Reading the book is not enough, understanding the concept is needed because a good physiology background sets a doctor up for fundamental understanding of what could basically go wrong in the body and how that error cause diseases. The mother Guyton is a must read for start and middle of the block reading. A must is to finish the book chapters atleast a week before the exams. The baby Guyton is EXTREMELY important for the final exam and for a quick go through days(night most likely) before the block exam. The baby is also helpful in EAs (Experimental Analyses wherein results of various studies basically prove various physiologic concepts you just learned, syempre may pruweba di ba? basta maniniwala ka nalang ba ng walang katibayan? :) haha) especially if you haven't read the chapter for the particular EA (isang chapter lang naman usually).
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| Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology |
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| Baby Guyton :) |
Other Books used by the Docs inlcudes Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology and Berne and Levy's Physiology. Ganong's is rather quirky because it is very short! It is basically used to add additional information left out from Guton (as if it's not long enough already, pfffft x___x haha) Berne and Levy is long too! but i don't like it very much, I like Guyton's way of explanations better, albeit the statements are longer, but that extra words makes it better to understand....
Biochemistry:
I have to be totally honest with Biochemistry, I hardly read the books.... I swear! For the first and 3rd block sure I read, but not all the chapters... The exams for Biochem basically encompasses pretty much the powerpoint lectures of the beautiful powerpuff trio of doctors of the Biochemistry department. Harper's is a very tricky book,, because each chapter is written by different authors! reading it can be troubling. Worry-not however! This is where the professors come-in, they basically summarize/present the book to us in a much,much,much more clearer and easier to understand and remember. They also walk us through the biochemical pathways in a step by step manner, unlike Harper's some chapters are pretentious and assume that you are an expert biochemist, relating the pathway being discussed to the different pathways already discussed. I pretty much prefer Mark's but it could be lengthy, but if you aren't that confident with Biochem, a little extra effort with it will provide leaps to your grade. Mark's also has a lot more clinical correlation used by the Doctor's for applying the biochemical concepts they are discussing. Reading it basically feels like reading Guyton, which could feel quite lengthy, but that's medSchool for you. Other books used by the department, usually for images and lectures that are clearer , include Lehninger's Principles of Biochemistry and Devlin's Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlates.
Foundations of Medicine
Buying these books is not needed if you are a scholar because they will give these books during your 2nd year. The thing is, the popular trend is to photocopy the case being discussed for the week, better than carrying a 1000+ paged book right?
Final words:
Reading books is basically optional. A friend of mine hardly touched his Anatomy book, another almost relied entirely with the Trans system for Physiology, some of us practically breathed the powerpoint copies for biochem. But one thing is for sure, you will read A BOOK ONE WAY OR ANOTHER! Whether its Anatomy, Biochem or Physiology you will pick that book up. After the first block, you will basically pick up on what subject you should put more effort into. But you could actually predict that for the first block, if you carefully analyze your strengths and weaknesses, then you yourself should know better than anyone what subject you could possibly be weaker than the others.
Notice the lack of books recommended for Preventive and Community Medicine? don't bother, the library carries loads of Epidemiology books which you could use for clarifications but the powerpoints given (ibibigay nila! no need to picture) by the Doctors would actually suffice.
