I'm also using fairly similar resources.
CP - Compendium for most things, although I have added a TON of extra info in the margins and on folded pieces of paper stuck in between various pages. I did not use the blood bank section at all; I read
Petrides instead and I have a extensive set of my own hand-written notes from the lectures we got from our own blood bank staff in residency, which were fantastic. I also listened to all of BBguy's Osler lectures, looked through his handouts on the web and did his practice questions (I wish there were this many resources for other topics!). I did not use the neoplastic hemepath section at all (I have the older/2nd edition compendium); I used the 2008 WHO book and some of my own notes. I also listened to Daniel Mais' hematology/hemepath lectures from the ASCP board review course. I did not use the coag section at all; I read the relevant
McClatchey chapters and made my own notes. I also listened to Michael Laposata's coag lectures from the ASCP board review. I didn't listen to very many lectures (neither Osler nor ASCP) for micro or chemsitry, it was just too tedious, so I mostly reviewed using questions instead.
Other sources of CP questions (I didn't necessarily use ALL of these for EACH topic) - Compendium Companion, questions provided as part of Osler/ASCP reviews, PRISE, "item descriptors" from the RISE (you often can't really tell what the questions were actually about because they are really vague, but you can at least read over whatever they felt was a relevant section of a reference textbook if the topic sounded unfamiliar to you), some of our CP staff have multiple choice questions they use as pre/post tests. I also subscribe to the
blood bank and
microbiology "Question of the Day" emails.
AP - I am not actually using an all-encompassing review book to study for AP. I have a
Molavi, which I used a lot first year but haven't really used very much since then, and a
Washington Manual (older 2008 one) that I never used much at all. I never bought
Differentials (several people told me they thought it was not detailed enough) or
Essentials. I have more AP than CP studying left to do, but so far for each organ system I have covered I have reviewed my own notes from my personal studying/residency lectures (really good in some areas, a bit spotty in others), listened to the ASCP board review lecture(s), done the ASCP questions (I haven't done the Osler to compare, but I have been really pleased with the ASCP lectures so far and have had several prior test-takers say they preferred ASCP to Osler for AP topics), done questions in either
Lefkowitch and/or the
new AP question book and/or PRISE, and looked at study sets/recut collections of glass slides in that area.
I also plan to do more general AP studying in a couple of weeks when I've finished all the organ systems using a review of virtual slides/pictures online (i.e. CAP case of the month, PathOutlines case of the week, Johns Hopkins unknowns) and more glass (we have California Tumor Registry and I think the ASCP checkpath samples?...although I don't think anyone in our department subscribes to the CAP PIP). I haven't decided what to use for cyto yet.
