Pharmacy UCC

sheeba7

I was just wondering if anybody here had the first year book list for pharmacy UCC ?

randylonghorn

Moved from LC.

Palytoxin

Hey, they didn't really give us a book list for the year, but each module had sort of a main text around which most of the content was based. These were the main ones I used last year, found them all fairly good:
Organic Chemistry -McMurry
Pharmaceutics -Aulton
Human Physiology -Fox
Pharmacology -Rang and Dale
Biochem -Lehninger
I didn't buy any books at all last year until a few months in, they're all in the library anyway so it's easy to check them out first before blowing €€€ on them . Any other books they mention I wouldn't even think about buying them because you won't need them that much . (I think they're all the main ones, if I think of any more I'll come back again!)

sheeba7

Hi , I was just wondering what book they start off with in first year pharm UCC ?
I was just thinking I might as well buy one book to see what it is like

Palytoxin

If I was going to buy one I'd probably buy Aulton's Pharmaceutics -> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aultons-Pharmaceutics-Design-Manufacture-Medicines/dp/0443101086/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341301430&sr=8-1

blankblank

There is no point in you buying a book until you start,,,,,

The book really wont make sense until you start lectures (if it even does then)

And you will only cover select sections/paragraphs from the book.

You can get all of these books from the library in UCC for free from the day you get your student card,,

I would wait until then.


Edit: Not to sound dramatic either but if you start just reading Aultons without having it in context (i.e what you need to take away from a chapter) it will probably turn you off pharmacy

Palytoxin

Davie89 wrote: »

Not to sound dramatic either but if you start just reading Aultons without having it in context (i.e what you need to talk away from a chapter) it will probably turn you off pharmacy

I was trying to think of a book that they would actually get use out of if they bought it. I don't think the stuff in the first section (solubility, diperse systems, etc.) of the book is really too advanced either, a skim through it couldn't do any harm imo. They could always look for a pdf of any book online if they really wanted to see it.

Nonoperational

They don't start off with any one book. There are loads of subjects and they all have books. Relax and wait till you get started and they'll recommend books. Lecture notes are far more important than books anyway. Learn the notes and then go to the book if you need to get more explanation. No matter what they say exams are from lecture notes.

By far the most common way I've seen people failing exams (besides doing zero work) is getting bogged down in ridiculous detail from books and forgetting the lecture notes.