I believe the booklist for the 1st semester is the following:

GROSS ANATOMY
(Required)
1. Eberhardt, K. Sauerland, Grants Dissector, 12th Edition. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
2. Moore, L. *****, Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th Edition. . 3. Netter, Frank H., Atlas of Human Anatomy, 3rd Edition.
HISTOLOGY & CELL BIOLOGY
(Required)
1. Fawcett, D., Jenesh, R., Bloom and Fawcett: Concise Histology, 2nd Ed 2. Young & Heath, Wheater’s Functional Histology: A Text & Colour 4th Edition.

(Recommended References)
1. Junqueira et al, Basic Histology, 10th Edition. McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange, 2002.
2. Cormack, David, Essential Histology, 2nd Edition. 3. Eroschenko, Victor P., DiFiore’s Atlas of Histology: With Functional Correlations, 9th Edition.

EMBRYOLOGY
(Required)
1. Moore, K. & Persaud, T., The Developing Human Clinically Oriented Embryology, 6th ed. 2. Moore, K. et al., Study Guide and Review Manual of Human Embryology, 5th Edition. 3. Sadler, Thomas., Langman’s Medical Embryology, 9th Edition.

** My Questions is: Which of these books do we actually use and term a valuable asset (enough to carry ALLLLL the way from NY) during the 1st semester?

Do a search on textbooks. This question has a plethora of answers in earlier posts.

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Will do. But if anyone wants to give their experience/suggestion... I would appreciate it!

Hold the press and save some money!

1. Don't get the embryo book. There are a total of 8-10 lectures on embryology throughout the whole semester. Nobody ever cracks that book open. Even the A students don't use them. Get BRS for embryo instead. Each section in BRS is more focused.

2. Dont' get Moore. Plz. Plz. Plz. Don't get Moore. It's a big bad ugly book. I recall using it only for the first 2 weeks. Then I gave up on it. There are always tonnes of copies of it in the library b/c nobody ever needs to use them. Get BRS for anatomy instead.

3. Do not get any recommended books for histo. You will barely read the required books in depth, how will u ever put the recommended ones to use? The powerpoints that you will get are more than sufficient. But u will need BRS for histology to clarify certain powerpoints.

4. Do not get Grant Dissector! You don't need it to know how to dissect the cadavers. It's not necessary for the lab. At the beginning of each semester, you will find a whole pile of them from the previous semester (for free) b/c nobody ever uses them.

WHAT TO GET:

1. Required texts for histology. You are being tested on lecture notes + stuff in the required texts.

2. I'm surprised that you didn't mention getting Netters Atlas of Human Anatomy. You need it to survive anatomy no matter where u go to school.

That's it. Hope it helps.

I stand corrected. You do have Netters in your list.

Thank you for your thorough reply... exactly what I was hoping for. Netter is a given according to most. Will also get the required text for histology and BRS anatomy/embryo/histology. Thanks again!

Get the books!! Most of the students who did exceptionally well bought their books and read them. The books give you a more thorough understanding of the subject material that goes beyond notes and such.

You've made it to get to medical school. It's a shame to narrow your educational experience for fear of spending a few extra hundred dollars.

the only reason i am getting all the required books is because i want to be good at what i do. and knowing as much as possible, not just for tests or board exam is the first step. but thats just me.

Just a quick one re: the Netters. Netters was generally the guidebook for anatomy and is definitely great with its colored handdrawn pics by Frank himself... But an EXCELLENT buy which i wish i'd been told about earlier is "The Color Atlas of Anatomy" by Rohan, Yokochi, and Drecoli. Its actually comprised of photographs of cadavers and is amazingly helpful in lab. Towards the latter end of the semester, my lab group and I used that book in lab and before exams. I found the real-life pics more helpful than Netter's drawings.

Hope that helps.

I will check into it! Thanks