Baby Robbins or Medium Robbins?

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I currently have the Big Robbins and baby Robbins. There is no way I'm going to read Big Robbins but I was wondering if I should use Medium Robbins. Medium Robbins is the book most people in my school use. I'm using baby Robbins but I'm wondering if I should use Medium Robbins like everybody else or just continue with Baby Robbins.

Whats the main difference between the books? Is Medium Robbins more simple and easy to understand or what?

I like Baby Robbins but I'm not sure if I can memorize it. I was thinking if Medium Robbins is written in a simple way like Guyton for Physiology perhaps I should use it. For Physiology all I did was read what I had to for the exam around 3-5 times, depending on what it was, and I ended up retaining everything because its so beautifully written.

Is that how Medium Robbins is or should I just stick with Baby Robbins?
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Books are lame and obsolete. your school should have access to an online pdf format of robbins. If they dont then that sucks but searching a book electronically like robbins is wayyy better than thumbing through it. I have big robbins but it's more of decoration on my book shelf.
 
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I don't see how you could really rely on baby robbins as your path text, so I'd say get medium if you really need to.

That said Rapid Review path is really good. I still read big robbins b/c at this point I'm used to it and already have a decent idea of where to find certain things in it. I have the baby version as well but don't use it that often.
 
is it worth purchasing the hard copy of big Robbins?

I have the pdf of it + have easy access to the hard copy version of it at my school's library if needed, so I think i'd be fine w/o purchasing it for my class.

However, it seems like Robbins in one of the few books that med students universally get. Will having the hard copy actually be useful in the future for reference? it's a great book, but the book is so heavy that i doubt i'd be taking it anywhere with me...

pretty much, is there any situation in the future where I might regret not purchasing the hard copy form of big Robbins?
 
no robbins. go goljan.
 
Sirenk5 said:
I currently have the Big Robbins and baby Robbins. There is no way I'm going to read Big Robbins but I was wondering if I should use Medium Robbins. Medium Robbins is the book most people in my school use. I'm using baby Robbins but I'm wondering if I should use Medium Robbins like everybody else or just continue with Baby Robbins.

Whats the main difference between the books? Is Medium Robbins more simple and easy to understand or what?

I like Baby Robbins but I'm not sure if I can memorize it. I was thinking if Medium Robbins is written in a simple way like Guyton for Physiology perhaps I should use it. For Physiology all I did was read what I had to for the exam around 3-5 times, depending on what it was, and I ended up retaining everything because its so beautifully written.

Is that how Medium Robbins is or should I just stick with Baby Robbins?
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I haven't ever seen medium Robbins. At my school, many/most buy, then read, reread, and pretty much memorize big Robbins for the second year path course exams (there are very few lectures, the course is set up in a self-study format). Some people pick up baby Robbins for reference and I've heard of a few who studied for exams from it. Personally, I found baby Robbins really hard to read. No pictures = really hard to learn path for me, and it was so abbreviated I thought it made much less sense than big Robbins. I'd go with medium Robbins or even big Robbins (more material to go with), and then learn to skim/reference efficiently.
 
We're systems based, so I try and read big robbins (it's a good supplement to a lot of the lectures) and then use goljan the last couple days before the exam. If I were more pressed for time or had to cover multiple systems in a couple weeks I'm not sure what I'd do. But I told a few friends about Goljan earlier this year and they love it.
 
caffeineaholic said:
is it worth purchasing the hard copy of big Robbins?

I have the pdf of it + have easy access to the hard copy version of it at my school's library if needed, so I think i'd be fine w/o purchasing it for my class.

However, it seems like Robbins in one of the few books that med students universally get. Will having the hard copy actually be useful in the future for reference? it's a great book, but the book is so heavy that i doubt i'd be taking it anywhere with me...

pretty much, is there any situation in the future where I might regret not purchasing the hard copy form of big Robbins?
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Not sure, more of a personal preference thing. I have a lot of my books other texts in PDF format as well but I just can't stand reading that much off of a computer screen. I have a small rolling suitcase that I keep all my books in that stays in my car so I have them all wherever I study.

I just prefer to read from an actual book and not a screen. Have some friends that don't mind at all so to each his own.... That said big robbins will be one of the books I plan on keeping as a reference.
 
nlax30 said:
Not sure, more of a personal preference thing. I have a lot of my books other texts in PDF format as well but I just can't stand reading that much off of a computer screen. I have a small rolling suitcase that I keep all my books in that stays in my car so I have them all wherever I study.

I just prefer to read from an actual book and not a screen. Have some friends that don't mind at all so to each his own.... That said big robbins will be one of the books I plan on keeping as a reference.
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aside from the size of big Robbins, I definitely like reading it. It provides a much more complete picture than what's presented in class and it has good pictures/diagrams.

I hate reading pdfs and scrolling constantly. I also prefer studying at home, so toting books around really isn't a problem for me.
 
go with big robbins, little robbins is useless without the pictures
 
Not to hijack the thread, but is big robbins "Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Seventh Edition"? And what's medium and baby/little?
 
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