Textbook list for US medical school clinicals. Are you serious?!!

[drchandrasika]

http://med.ucf.edu/administrative-o...rollment-requirements/textbooks/m3-textbooks/

Do people actually go through all the "required" textbooks during rotations???? How does this work exactly. Or do students use review books and a qbank?

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[MDMasonDixon]

Some scholarships will only pay for required textbooks so the schools list a lot of books so those students can get reimbursed. I have bought very few books for my rotations.

 

[drchandrasika]

Some scholarships will only pay for required textbooks so the schools list a lot of books so those students can get reimbursed. I have bought very few books for my rotations.

But do people read all these books? Like I thought we are better off reading just one textbook for a rotation along with doing qbank. But what I see here is that there are multiple books(even in the required list) for each rotation. Each book is 800-1000 pages long. Are students expected to and do students read these books cover to cover?

 

[JD_DO]

I don't think anyone is actually doing all of the "required" reading. I certainly don't own all the books that are required, and I don't plan on spending the money on most of them.

 

[drchandrasika]

I don't think anyone is actually doing all of the "required" reading. I certainly don't own all the books that are required, and I don't plan on spending the money on most of them.

Thanks for your reply man. Any advice regarding what textbooks I should use for rotations? Aside from a question bank

 

[JD_DO]

I've used this list in the past : http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/best-books-for-each-rotation.742372/