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Don't bother getting other textbooks! These are the ones we've found most useful, memorise these and you'll be on your way to completing med school!
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Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (8th Ed)
***** (5 stars) Memorise this, and you can pass med school. Period. Topics are organised according to the major systems - cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, gastro, renal, neuro, haematology, neuro, oncology, rheumatology etc etc. The authors really know what the medical student and junior doctors need to know, and have written the book with that in mind. Lots of humour throughout too. |
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Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties (8th Ed)
**** (4 stars) This book is really handy for everything else not in OHCM: obestetrics & gynaecology (O&G), general practice, psychiatry, orthopaedics and anaesthesia. However, lots of info need updating, so the rating is 1 below the OHCM. However, the organisation of the topics is very helpful in providing a good structure to start with. |
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Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis (6th Ed.)
**** (4 stars) This guides you through the examination of the various systems. If you memorise this, it not only helps in OSCEs, it will help you assess patients better as you know what to look out for. Most medical schools closely follow this book anyway so if you do as it says, the examiners will likely be happy with you. |
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Clinically Oriented Anatomy (6th Ed)
**** (4 stars) This book is really great not just for anatomy, but explaining the common pathologies that have anatomical bearings. It is readable and colourful. However, not all diagrams are great, so this book gets 4 stars and needs to be complemented with a great atlas or website (see 'Websites') |
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Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (8th Ed.)
**** (4 stars) Pathology is a lot about knowing major keywords - histology, syndromes and pathogenesis processes. This book is crucial to the study of medicine. It's not 5 stars because it's a hard read... but which pathology textbook isn't? |