Topic wise Suggested Reading
- Anatomy - Megraper or Snell
- Human Anatomy (3 Vol.) - Chaurasia
- Medical Physiology - Gyston
- Human Physiology - Chatterjee
- Pathology - Muirs or Robbins
- Microbiology - Anand Narayan or Chatterjee
- Principal and Practice of Medicines - Davidson
- Social and Preventive Medicine - Park & Park
- Surgery - Love and Bailey
- Essentials of Bio-chemistry - M C Pant
- Review in Bio-chemistry - Harper
- Heinmann Medical Dictionary - Janife
- Heinmann Dental Dictionary - Lennox
Suggested Reading for Prelims
- Human anatomy: Chaurasia (III Volumes) and Histology (Inderbir Singh) - Basic Gray and Neuroanatomy (Inderbir Singh) for selected topics.
- Physiology: Ganong
- BioChemistry: Harper
- Microbiology: Anantha Narayan (Introduction to Microbiology), Parasitology (Jayaram Panikkar)
- Pathology: Robbins (Big Robbins)
- Medicine: Harrison (No other book may be useful)
- Surgery: Bailey (No other book may be useful)
- SPM: Park (No other book may be useful)
NB : Latest volumes are more useful.
Miscellaneous:
1) Question Banks: Question banks without keys are available across the market (Jawahar). Bhatia has published a book, with keys. But it contains questions till 1999 only, also keys are often wrong. The III volume Bhatia series also have UPSC questions spread over the entire series.
2) AIIMS question bank will be also useful for solving MCQS. Books that are published (like Mudit Khanna) for AIIMS entrance will be also useful for revision.
Miscellaneous:
1) Question Banks: Question banks without keys are available across the market (Jawahar). Bhatia has published a book, with keys. But it contains questions till 1999 only, also keys are often wrong. The III volume Bhatia series also have UPSC questions spread over the entire series.
2) AIIMS question bank will be also useful for solving MCQS. Books that are published (like Mudit Khanna) for AIIMS entrance will be also useful for revision.
Suggested Reading for Mains
Go back to those old MBBS days. If you could get hold of any old notes from medical colleges of those rough professors, it will serve you better than any texts. Also, apply the old logic, draw pictures as far as possible. Go back to selections, and read the topic carefully.- Human anatomy: Chaurasia (III Volumes) and Histology (Inderbir Singh)
- Physiology: Ganong
- BioChemistry: Harper
- Microbiology: Anantha Narayan (Introduction to Microbiology), Parasitology (Jayaram Panikkar)
- Pathology: Robbins (Big Robbins)
- Medicine: George Mathew (Notes in medicine), Harrison if needed
- Surgery: Bailey (Das will be also useful for some areas)
- SPM: Park
