Thread: Textbooks and review books

Been getting a lot of requests about textbooks so I put this together. Here is a list of textbooks and review books I have been using since first semester. A few of them (biochemistry, histology, pharmacology, behavior science) are the school recommended books and the rest are alternatives I found to be more readable, intuitive and by far superior in helping to understand the material.
Its important to be familiar with what you are required to know for the Step and this is the purpose of the review books, they also help you in understanding the respective courses. They are not necessarily a primary source but a great supplemental or quick review before tests. The Review books are in green.All books can be found on amazon.com.

Fist Semester


Anatomy I - Clinical Anatomy by Keith Moore, Netters Atlas, BRS Anatomy
Physiology I - Human Physiology by Linda Costanzo, BRS Physiology
Embryology – Medical Embryology by Sadler, or Before We are Born by Persaud and Moore (my favorite), High Yield Embryology



Second Semester


Anatomy I I - same for Anatomy I
Physiology I I - same for Physiology I
Histology - Basic Histology by Luiz Junqueira
Biochemistry - Lippincotts Illustrated Biochemistry


Third Semester


Pathology I - Robins Pathology (Medium not the big one!), Rapid Review Pathology
Neuroanatomy - Course Handouts, High Yield Neuroanatomy
Microbiology & Immunology - Lange Microbiology&Immunology by Levinson, Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple
Community Medicine - Course Handouts


Fourth Semester


Pathology I I - same for Pathology I
Pharmacology - Lippincotts Illustrated Pharmacology
Behavior Science – Course Handouts, BRS Behavior Science

Fifth Semester

Kaplan Lecture Notes (available on ebay any version from 2007 is fine)
Kaplan Videos (get a hard drive and ask a classmate or upper classman)
First Aid for USMLE Step I
Bates Guide to Physical Exam & History Taking

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By the way the BRS physiology and rapid review pathology are priceless. The rapid review pathology almost matches the notes from the Goljan review perfectly

Originally Posted by MerlinDoc85

i have a set of books for anybody who wants. PM me.

Heyy my name is somaya and i was wondering if you have pdf versions of any books...please i really need them. Thanks

Originally Posted by Rosi2

A tip: Dont buy these books from Amazon, searched used book sites, you will save a few hundred dollars this way.

Amazon has a used book section as well. That's where I bought most of my review books from for about $15 each. Normal prices were $40 and above.

Just look around. But Amazon isn't strictly new stuff.

The amazon market is okay for those really hard books to find used, however I find that if you go on websites specific for used books your better off. I spent 15 dollars for all of my MD2 books combined (the only catch was the 10 dollar shipping).

addall dot com and allbookstores dot com are great websites to get books from just get the isbn # to get the books.

I heard that Washington Manual is a must....
did anyone hear about this source?

Any way to get HY online and print them out?

no, on the washington manual. not sure about the high yield stuff. you can find it very cheap on amazon in the used books section. that may be a better bet.

Definitely check out Amazon or half dot com ! or even ebay! for books!