BRS Cell Biology and Histology (Board Review Series),   ISBN:9780781785778

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I think that this book is an ok review book, but a bit to superficial to use when learning histology. I recommend purchasing a larger text book to learn histology... I wish I had. The students in my class that read larger histology text books did much better in histology and subsequently pathology than I did.

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First of all, most medical schools require cell biology before marticulation. If you don't have it as an undergraduate, you only get a week or two of it. For a class that is so short, this book is way over the top. It is long and detailed. It really is a cell bio text in bullet points more than anything, and I am even more critical of the histology portion. It lacks in pitures, which is an absolute must for histology! In the long run, this book is going to become more of a burden than anything. Save yourself the trouble and use another source. For Histology, I recommend Wheaters functional atlas. It is light on text, heavy on pictures, and gets the job done better than this book. For cell biology, I still have not found a great source, but I would recommend checking out at another source before chaining yourself to this one.

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A must have. Really important and understandable facts in the light of USMLE. I'm reading some other books on this subject too, and I have inferred that this one is very good.

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This book is broken into systems and has nice board related pathology info at the end of each chapter. Exp: The Chapter on Neuro Histology will give you a clear understanding of the histo, physio, and then give pathology examples such as what happens when there is demyelination->MS.

I was never taught histology, but this book is so well laid out, I could make the correlation between histo, phys, and path. Excellent resource if you want to understand histo in a short period of time. I see where other people say it's not high-yield enough. That may be true. But what's the point of memorizing specific details if you don't understand the big concepts they pertain to. If you have a strong background in histo then I would recommend something else.

I just feel this book has made me understand phyio and path so much better. It's like biochem. Gives you better insight on the mechanisms of pathophys. I was very disappointed with BRS Phys, but BRS Cell Bio and Histo is the real deal. I would scrap BRS Phys and just buy the Histo one.

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I have used many of the BRS books for class (the physio one is great!), but this one I found to be confusing and disorganized. It was not pertinent to the material covered on the USMLE or in microbio. I would probably recommend finding another book to study with (in our school we studied more hitsology than cell bio, so it depends on your curriculum).