1. Anatomy a. Dutta (I would recommend this as the basic text book) b.

Chaurasia (Easy for remembering the relations using simple diagrams) c. Keith L. Moore (Is extremely helpful in learning hard topics like the sole, and Head & Neck. d. Neuroanatomy (IB Singh > Dutta. Again, very useful if you can read topics like Hypothalamus, Cerebellum, blood supply to brain from both) e. Embryology (IB Singh > Dutta. I found both useful and Dutta has great General Embryology discussion.) f. SARP ? (useful for Osteology, Arthrology) g. Osteology and Histology ? only for Reference 2. Physiology a. Ganong (Read through Ganong and do the question on the back) b. Guyton (Great reference book to have. CVS is excellent and CNS/Muscle & Nerve topics might provide some tough references) 3. Biochemistry a. Harper (Read through the regular sections and try to go through the last 200 pages. Those topics have been regularly asked in the last 2 years of AIPGE and AIIMS) b. Vasudevan and Sreekumari (Very useful if you find Biochemistry difficult) c. Chaudhary (For those hard question references) 4. Pharmacology a. Tripathi (Read through. Just about everything is important. Try to add your own points from other texts such as Harrison etc. into this) b. Tumor SARP (Chemotherapeutic agents) c. Harrison Charts (Adverse Reactions pages 431 onwards in 15th Edition) d. Pharmacology SARP is useful. 5. Pathology a. Robbins (almost read through. Must read topics are General Pathology, CVS, CNS, Kidney, Muscle and Nerve) b. Harrison (for the final word in pathology) 6. Microbiology a. Ananthanarayanan (read through and give special importance to Virology, Mycology) b. SARP is extremely useful here. c. Harrison (final reference, great charts on offer in the last 100 pages in Infectious Disease topic) 7. Forensic Medicine a. Naryana Reddy (mainly for reference) b. SARP (very useful, especially in Toxicology and Identification) 8. Preventive and Social Medicine a. Park (Almost read through) b. RxPG SPM Buster (is useful, but has a lot of mistakes) 9. Psychiatry a. Neeraj Ahuja (read selectively with stress on Psychopharmacology and substance abuse) b. SARP series SARP (Essential) c. Sure Success SARP (It?s even better than the original!) 10. Anesthesia a. Lee (A truly wonderful book. If you have the time read it selectively. It will improve your knowledge in many subjects.) b. SARP Original c. Sure Success SARP 11. Radiology a. Sutton (only for reference) b. SARP (essential) c. Sure Success SARP (must-read) 12. Skin a. Pavithran (very good book)

b. Harrison (Skin topics are very good) c. SARP d. Sure Success SARP 13. ENT a. Dhingra (read selectively with importance to Larynx) b. Sure Success ENT & Ophthalmology book is very useful 14. Ophthalmology a. Khurana (must read) b. Parson (for reference) c. Sure Success ENT & Ophthalmology 15. Orthopedics a. Maheshwari (for reading) b. Natarajan (for a bit of reference) 16. Surgery a. Bailey and Love (very useful to read but has a lot of contradictions within itself and with other text books b. Surgery SARP (very useful) c. Manipal Manual of Surgery d. Das (both Clinical and Short Cases) 17. Medicine a. Harrison (ultimate Bible) b. CMDT (very useful and concise. Essential for the latest protocols in most subjects) 18. Pediatrics a. OP Ghai (for selective reading. Don?t ever miss out on Metabolic diseases) b. Nelson (for reference) c. Pediatrics SARP (very informative) 19. Obstetrics a. Dutta (another great book. Selective reading) b. O&G Buster (is okay) 20. Gynecology a. Shaw?s (Great book, selective reading with emphasis on Tumors) b. O&G Buster (is okay) Other books which are extremely useful ? Tyagi Vidyarthi (AIPGE) ? Ashish Gupta (AIIMS) ? Sure Success for Medical PG Entrance 2nd edition ? Tumor SARP ? Stedmann?s Medical Dictionary (*most of the toughest references come from this) ? Pre PG Medicine Handbook by Raj & Sulfi ? RxPG Biostatistics ? A good statistics book

ust for fun, this article is going to be a discussion on which books our fellow members find the most useful (pg preparation or otherwise), and why. Ill list my own for starters. 1) Anatomy-BRS series I just abhor the subject, and there just wasnt any way I was going to mug Chaurasia. In fact, I just hate the site of those 3 volumes. This book has proved to be a life saver that way, maybe a bit too detailed, but much better than the High-Yield version.(In fact the only books of the HighYield Series Id recommend are those dealing with Biostatistics and embryo). Runners up-Moores Essential Clinical Anatomy. (Good but probably a tad too expensive). Embryology - High Yield Histology - ???? Neuroanatomy - Snells (High -Yield if urea short of time, and motivation) 2) Biochemistry -Lippincott (what else?) Everything u need for the entrances. Strong on integrated metabolic pathways, good mcqs (though not many), great on genetic analysis procedures. Paisa wasool, esp. if you have got it xeroxed. Runners up-Harper (Dry, monotonous and scariest to people not interested in the subject. The studs would go for it though. Consider it, esp. if u feel answering questions on chromosome walking will raise your rank from say 25 to a 15. J) 3) Physiology-Berne and Levy. Im in the minority here, but people whove read from this in college will swear by the book. None of the brevity of review books like Ganongnone of the exaggerated verbosity of books like Guyton either. Great for CVS (the book for it actually). Best if you have the time for it. Runners up-Ganong(good for review, but only if reading reviews is your style) 4) Micro-Ananthanarayan/Greenwood/Jawetz All are good, but I tend to lean a bit towards Greenwood ,for the simple reason that it made an unpalatable subject like micro readable, and finally likeable for me. Good on bacteriology/virology (but for immunology, turn to the review by Jawetz; Harrison) 5) Pharmacology-Katzung/Goodman and Gillman. Nothing to say about the latter. The Bible, but reading Bibles not everybodys style. Personally, I love Katzung. Its of a manageable size, gives u the latest info and of course anything coming out of the Lange stables got to be good. Runners up-KDT (cause the last time I read that book was in my clinical years long ago, and my memories of it arent pleasant. Too much of info to be crammed, at the expense of the hows, and whys) 6) Pathology-Big Robbins No questions asked. The eternal book. Runners up-None 7) Ophthalmology -Khurana. In our college we were (And probably still are), for obvious reasons, forced to read a book (or rather a guide) by Dr V A Rao for clinics. This explains the distaste I have for the subject. If only Id known about this book, life would have been much, much easier. However, even this book hasnt been able to cure my weakness when it comes to optics. Any

suggestions, anybody? Runners up-Dont know. Is there one? 8) ENT- Dhingra/Logan and Turner/Current Id say Currents a better option for neoplasias, and their latest treat ment protocols. 9) PSM-Park (just for the sake of mentioning); SARP Series (though the updated version on 18th hasnt hit the market yet) Biostatistics- RxPG Bio stat Buster+ High Yield+ Mahajans text should do it. 10)Forensic-Reddy, SARP 11)Surgery-Schwartz(8th) Im not much of a fan of Surgery ,or the nitty gritties about surgical procedures, but this books my choice when it comes to the subject, for the simple reason that it gives a whole lot of stress to molecular genetics, its association with tumour-genesis, latest anti tumour therapies etc. Stuff that wouldnt figure on the top of the surgeons agenda, but which nevertheless is important when it comes to the entrances. Besides, most of the entrances questions of surgery have a considerable degree of overlap with Medicine, so who needs core knowledge of surgery anyway? Somehow, I never came around to "Loving" my Bailey. Runners up-CSDT (Again, love it cause it reads more like a Medicine text. If I were to read only one book for the exams, other than Schwartz, this would probably be it).Im omitting Sabiston cause Ive never read it, maybe its readers can put in their words of praises. Radio-Radiologist + Chapman are more than enough 12) Obstetrics and Gynaecology -Dutta + CODT combo enough to take care of the entrances, I think. Probably with a little help from Williams. 13) orthopaedics-Maheshwari/Ebnezer/Adams. With a bit of a reference from Apley. 14) Medicine-Harrison (16th) +CMDT Nothing much to be said. I guess therell be 100% support for this one. 15) Paediatrics - Ghai. With a lot of reference from big Nelson. 16) Anaesthesia-Ajay Yadav. Love this book. Short, succinct and memorizable. Prefer it over Lee Runners up-Lee 17) Dermatology -Harrison+ Roxburgh Takes care of the whole thing. Runners up-Behl (For the simple reason that it comes sans the wonderful colour plates that are Roxburghs hallmark) 18) Psychiatry-Ahuja Runners up-SARP (IN my opinion reading SARP after Ahuja would be a better idea)

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