I really slept on histo, found it way too boring and didn't do great on the shelf. Am I screwed for path next year since knowing how things look normally is super important for how they look in disease states?
are you screwed for path if you sucked at histo?
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No. I did well in histo and still benefited a lot from looking back at histo resources. Just keep your histo resources handy and organized, or find a good online database, or use Google image, and it will take you all of 30 seconds to remind yourself what something looks like normally.
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Definitely not at my school.
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No. I hated histo and pretty much ignored it. Path will be more engaging in that it's actually useful to help figure out diagnoses. Almost everything from first year gets reviewed in second year, so any "weaknesses" you have from first year can be corrected anyway. Don't sweat it.
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You will rarely, if ever need to draw on your Histo background. Any question with microscope pictures is given in context of the disease state, the overall appearance of the organ, etc. Never "what is this", I mean JFC 80% of everything is just like random blue dots anyway.
You just need to know the super distinctive things - and if you managed to pass, you probably will know them.
You just need to know the super distinctive things - and if you managed to pass, you probably will know them.
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You don't really need to be able to identify some random piece of tissue. What you need to eventually be able to do is recognize abnormal pathology within a tissue. Once you get past step 1, you won't ever really be asked to do any microscopic stuff anymore. One thing though, it does help you understand pathology and physiology.
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