First Year Booklist

[S Knights]

Actually I was handed a copy of the booklist for first and second years on Wednesday, and the recommendation for an Anatomy text has changed. Now they are recommending: Grays Anatomy for Students by Drake and Vogl. ISBN: 0443066124. Apparently it has fewer errors, and having looked at it it does seem to be rather nice.

If I was in your position I think I would go for this book, though you could can always keep the old Moore's and refer to it... Anatomy doesn't change that fast .

[JohnnyBoyBravo]

Ok well It seems there's a good chance I'll be at Durham so wondered whether the book list is likely to change at all and If so, are we likely to get sent the list? read it on the website? ring and ask? any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
JB.

[S Knights]

Apologies for the delayed reply. As a rule they send out a copy of the reading list to first years before the start of term... Probably in August or September I would imagine.

I don't think it is terribly likely to change much - the last copy I got hold of was just about the same - but it would be worth waiting to see.

[JohnnyBoyBravo]

Cheers matey.. i'll wait and see then.
Peace out.
JB

[phobos]

Originally Posted by S Knights

You want more books than that? :shock: .

Just checked through it again, and unless there are any huge alterations to the course these are pretty much all of the texts that you will need for first year.

If anthropology is your thing there are a few recommended texts, but having never even looked at them I really can't tell you anything about them (aside from the fact that they clearly aren't essential reading to pass the course :wink: ). The full book list runs to about £700, but you really only need the ones mentioned above.

£700 is not a small sum. Do people actually spend that much in their 1st year on books? Just wonder what people do to get by without a bigger loan.

[S Knights]

When I was in first year the only books that I needed were an anatomy textbook, a histology text, and a physiology text. Those two were the essentials... and on top of that you might want to get a general clinical medicine text such as Clinical Medicine (Known almost exclusively throughout the medical world by its authors names - Kumar and Clark).

To be honest I really wouldn't bother with much more than that to start with - a lot of the "essential" reading material is absolutely useless, and you can easily get by with only spending ~£100 odd pounds.

[phobos]

Thanks, Steven, very useful experience and advice.

By the way, are there any students' discountted stores at Newcastle or Durham unis on books and computer stuffs? Wonder if there were, their prices are any better than the online stores like amazon.

[S Knights]

I must admit I don't know of any student discounts in bookshops... though I dare say there will be some around. I tend to buy all of mine on Amazon... the prices for new and used books in their "associated sellers" tends to be pretty reasonable.

[phobos]

Thanks, Steven,

I am sure that if there were any, you would have known.

Just thought book shops and computer firms could offer discounts to students, especially those at universities. Just a question to check really.
Thanks again.

[S Knights]

I've just realised how very dense I've been... Waterstone's has something like a 10% student discount! Sorry, clearly had some sort of fugue when I wrote that last post.