1st Year MBBS Books

Iam gonna be starting Med-School in a couple of weeks and wanted to ask medical students which are the best books that will be helpful rightnow and as well as in the future like the USMLE.
So far, I have;

Physiology --- Guyton and Hall

Biochemistry --- Lippincotts (how is Harpers BioChem)

Embryology --- Langmans

Clinical Neuroanatomy --- Snell (is Kieth L. Moore better?)

Histology --- someone named Laiq Hussain Siddiqui (any other suggestions?)

Any recommendations?

You've got it down man, those are all the books you need to kick ass in MBBS Year 1. I used all the same ones -- the histology one is kind of weird, but thats exactly what they test you from no matter what the teachers tell you about using a book written by a guy named Ross.

that's a great list of books.

For anatomy you can use Snells or Keith Moore. Both very good books.

and for histology you can use Basic histology by Junqueira, or the histology book by Wheaters

For Clinical Neuroanatomy, Snell works pretty well but you cant go through whole of it coz its one big book but as much as your teachers cater you, you have to get that much only.

but FOr the rest of Anatomy,there is another book named Clinical Anatomy by Snell...its good.Most of the students prefer it over KLM ..the reason i dunt know because i myself studied it ,not Moore...may b the thngs are much easier in it than Moore's and its clinical oriented as well( Moore's too btw... ).

Lippincott is easier to study as compared to Harper ...but once u get used to Harper, it no longer remains difficult. the thing is that how much effort u can put in by urself....if ur reading time is ample, its better to study Harper coz its offers more details and knowledge thats surely gonna help u if u want to get higher than avergae scores. but if one isnt much into studying, then,getting average marks or just good marks esp in vivaz can be well served by Lippincott.so its purely upto you that how much u want to work up for Biochemistry.obviously,to stad out of the crowd,u have to put more efforts !!

For Physiology,Guyton is more than enough! and yah,once u start studying from it, u will feel like u are reading a novel and aftr going through 5 pages of the book,u will come to know that only 5 lines are worth-knowing yah...dats true.so its better that while u study it,get the imp things highlighted or underlined as u wish....so that reviewing becomes much easier.otherwise, many students complain in examz that they are unable to revise the damn lengthy syllabus.got it!
hope it works

Thank You all very much.

nice list....any other suggestion for a physio book other than guyton?

Some people like to use Sherwood for Physiology, which isn't as detailed as Guyton but easy to read and explains concepts in simple terms.

There's also another thread on here about 1st year books: 1st Yr MBBS Book List

thanks a lot
yep am looking more for a less detailed book compared to Guyton, will give Sherwood a try...

hmmm if anyone has that on pdf....^^^

its hard to study from PDF files. You can get sherwood in the local market here sometimes....