Principles of Medical Physiology – A Companion Guide is a revised and improved version of ‘Questions and Answers in Medical Physiology’, first published in the year 2003, and well received by undergraduate students. This book is divided into 12 sections comprising long- and short-answer questions with to-the-point answers. This should help students understand the core concepts of physiology and thereby, prepare thoroughly for examinations. At the end of each section of this book, there are multiple choice questions (MCQs) for familiarizing students to the type of questions asked in examinations.
Salient features
Over 1200 questions covering the syllabus in a systematic and student-friendly manner.
Important questions and their answers that would prepare students for examination. Care has been taken to ensure that the answers to the questions are easy to memorize and reproduce in examinations.
Flow charts, tables, and illustrations are inserted wherever necessary for elucidating the concepts.
Multiple-choice questions are placed at the end of every section.
Sabyasachi Sircar is Professor and Head, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. He is an eminent physiologist and has more than thirty years of experience in teaching undergraduates. He was the first one from the Third World to be awarded with the fellowship of International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) for his contributions to the field of Physiology. He served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin for a year. He has published more than 40 papers in national and international journals and has received numerous awards of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (APPI).
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1. The text is succinct. Hence, the brevity makes it convenient for an MBBS student to go through any chapter is less than 30 minutes.
2. Important words in ‘bold’ and ‘italics’ makes it easier to focus on a concept without the need for highlighting, and thereby, avoiding multi-tasking.
3. Relevant ‘molecular’ aspects have been included without overburdening the student.
4. Flow-charts and tables have been provided where deemed necessary
Dr. Swapnil Paralikar
Government Medical College, Bhavnagar
Posted on: 22 August 2024
Personally I found this book extremely helpful in terms of questions and answers.
Very concise and to the point and explanations of the questions and topics.
The mentioning about the recent advances and changes is extremely appreciable.
A thorough read of just this book would be extremely helpful to revise the concepts.
Though I really feel a few simplified diagrams in the central nervous system for the tracts would be very much helpful for those students who are not able to understand how and where the fibres decussate sir.
Book has been written in a very easy to grasp and understand language.
Overall this is a great book for not just the undergraduates but for the postgraduate students as well.
Dr. Meenakshi Malhotra
Government Medical College, Surat
Posted on: 22 August 2024
Concise and clear!
Principles of medical physiology by Sabyasachi Sircar (2nd edition) is a book packed with all the knowledge a first year medical student can grab up.
This book is slightly advanced in providing indepth learning in all aspects of physiology. It begins from basics already learnt during high school and then enters into the physiology of separate systems.
The pictures provided are simple,logically easy, colourful and attractive to provide feast to the eyes of the readers.The book has highlighted important keywords. Revision questions are provided at end of each topic for easy preparation.
This book presents a lot of flowcharts, tabular columns, H&E sections, bar diagrams, graphs, drawings and figures for the ease of the readers.
Certain topics have diagrams that are compared to a daily life comically that acts as mnemonics.
Finally to conclude this book is concise and clear
Happy reading!
Emerald Blessye T
Emerald Blessye T
Ragas dental college
Posted on: 22 August 2024
The pages are of a very good quality and the images are crystal clear, that u will love every piece of it. Must buy edition and product. There are well orientated topics with ideal descriptions along with colorful diagrams pictures flowcharts and all. Moreover all the important points are being highlighted; in some areas tables are being provided so as to well distinguish between the topics and concept related.
It's a must buy textbook for physiology especially for undergraduates as you will get the proper orientation of the topics and overall the complete syllabus.
Along with this book there is also an assess to winging skull.com where you can study on clinical based questions and look for colorful diagrams.
Aanchal Verma
KMCT medical college and hospital
Posted on: 22 August 2024
Description
Thieme- "Principle of medical physiology " has been the go-to reference for clear and comprehensive guide , containing content most relevant to clinical and pre clinical students. Detailed but lucid text is complemented by flow charts and diagrams that summarize key concepts in physiology.
Purpose
To provide a comprehensive, up-to-date text for students throughout their careers.
Features
The book consist of
Comic illustrations: Perhaps the best thing about the book , that it is very interesting. Reading can be tough some times but with addition of some comic illustrations, author has made sure that reader not only read, but enjoy it too.
Diagrams: From simple diagrams in every topic to 3d diagrams explaining the toughest of topics in as simple way possible, and as the saying goes " what you see, is what you remember" , this book makes each and every topic very easy to understand.
Vansh Saxena
Posted on: 22 August 2024
Description
Thieme- "Principle of medical physiology " has been the go-to reference for clear and comprehensive guide , containing content most relevant to clinical and pre clinical students. Detailed but lucid text is complemented by flow charts and diagrams that summarize key concepts in physiology.
Purpose
To provide a comprehensive, up-to-date text for students throughout their careers.
Features
The book consist of
Comic illustrations: Perhaps the best thing about the book , that it is very interesting. Reading can be tough some times but with addition of some comic illustrations, author has made sure that reader not only read, but enjoy it too.
Diagrams: From simple diagrams in every topic to 3d diagrams explaining the toughest of topics in as simple way possible, and as the saying goes " what you see, is what you remember" , this book makes each and every topic very easy to understand.
Vansh Saxena
Posted on: 22 August 2024
Description
Thieme- "Principle of medical physiology " has been the go-to reference for clear and comprehensive guide , containing content most relevant to clinical and pre clinical students. Detailed but lucid text is complemented by flow charts and diagrams that summarize key concepts in physiology.
Purpose
To provide a comprehensive, up-to-date text for students throughout their careers.
Features
The book consist of
Comic illustrations: Perhaps the best thing about the book , that it is very interesting. Reading can be tough some times but with addition of some comic illustrations, author has made sure that reader not only read, but enjoy it too.
Diagrams: From simple diagrams in every topic to 3d diagrams explaining the toughest of topics in as simple way possible, and as the saying goes " what you see, is what you remember" , this book makes each and every topic very easy to understand.
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