In Medicine, we just can’t get enough of books. Buying books becomes close to an obsessive compulsive hobby. Most of us buy textbooks, but end up reading only one chapter… so my most honest advice is to consider carefully before you buy your textbooks (not as if you’ll listen anyway..) We even get so attached to our books we give our books pet names, names that even the librarians know and go by…follow through my book recommendations list to see our names for each textbook.
There’s also what we call senior’s notes. These are notes complied by seniors long long ago. Of course, these are unpurchasable. Get a free copy from your counselor (look out for the section on counselors), or pirate it off some other person.
In addition, some lecturers give out lecture notes. Others post their notes up on the web and expect you to download and print them yourself. Try to keep your notes organized, they actually ask questions from the notes. If you happen to miss a lecture get someone else to “take-away” notes for you, otherwise it’ll be bad if you realize you’re missing one set of notes one day before the exams.
Click on the links below to take a look at the book reviews for the respective tracks.