many third year students mailed me and asked for best Pharmacology books for 3rd ear of MBBS! my first answer is none of the book is perfect! bc if u are reading a review book, u might not build proper concepts and if you are talking textbook as an option you might emphasize on unnecessary things and important stuff to memorize will lag behind :P
well the right answer is that you have to combine two books! two options:
- Either combine lippincott's illustrated Pharmacology with Farrukh Jabbar review of Pharmacology. These two books are enough for you to pass and even get distinction both in theory and viva! (So don't wander here and there for other books and go for it).
- Just in case you wana build more concepts and want another books than go for Katzung review, its a v. nice book and even miraculous in some ways (i personally combined these three books and believe me that results were rewarding:D)
I will not encourage you to read BRS and Kaplan series for pharmacology (not at all!), i wasted much time in these two books but evantually i have to follow the earlier 3 book pattern!
in next post i will tell you how to study pharmacology and get maximum out of it !
i wish u all the best & lemme know if there are any queries :-)
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