TEXTBOOKS
Textbooks can be a daunting thing coming into medical school. Knowing this, FMSS has compiled a guide over the years, with many contributions from past students.
You do NOT have to purchase any textbooks to succeed in the Flinder’s MD program.
Digital copies of any textbook you'll consider are available through your peers, and hard-copies in the library. Try before you buy!
THE LIBRARY
The library has most of the textbooks with multiple copies but availability of textbooks varies during the semester. Additionally the library has subscriptions to a number of digital resources such as AccessMedicine and UpToDate as well as many academic journals.
Lots of the books are on 2 hour loans though, so you can usually find the book you're thinking of buying before you choose to buy. Every textbook is different in both content, readability and style, so a lot of your choices will depend on your background knowledge of the subject and your preferred style.
BLOCK BY BLOCK "CAN'T GO WRONG" GUIDE
Molecular Foundations in Medicine (MFM)
Principles of Anatomy & Physiology (Tortura)
Crash Course - Metabolism & Nutrition
Identity, Microbes and Defence (IMD)
Pathologic Basis of Disease (Robbins & Cotran)
Cardiovascular (CVS)
Pathophysiology of Heart Disease (Lilly)
Respiratory (RESP)
Respiratory Physiology: the Essentials (West)
Renal
Crash Course - Renal & Urinary Systems
Medical Physiology (Boron & Boulpaep)
Genetics
Emery's Elements of Medical Genetics (Turnpenny)
Gastrointestinal (GIT)
Crash Course - Gastrointestinal System
Medical Physiology (Boron & Boulpaep)
Endocrine & Reproductive Systems (ERS)
Crash Course - Endocrinology
Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology
Musculoskeletal (MSK)
THIEME Atlas of Anatomy series
Clinically Oriented Anatomy (Moore)
A desktop and mobile app called Complete Anatomy
Brain & Behaviour (B&B)
Neurology
Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases (Blumenfeld)
Neuroscience (Purves)
The Nervous System, Basic Science & Clinical Conditions (Michael-Titus)
Psychiatry
Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry
DSM-5-TR
PHYSIOLOGY
A physiology text is an absolute must. You will use it in every unit of first year and more than likely a lot of second year too.
There is a large variety, and your decision should be made on the basis of your background knowledge in the subject.
We highly recommend skimming through a few of them in the library to get a feel for the level of detail before purchasing one.
Anatomy
It’s pretty hard to go wrong here because human anatomy has not changed much in the last 300 years, but it is important to get a book that maintains your interest as the subject can be pretty dry.
Histology
If you have any background in histology you will probably not need to purchase histology text, although some people like to have it.