Best way to prepare for residency

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Pathfinder2005

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What do you think is the best way to prepare for residency? I would like to cover the normal histology at least. I found that watching videos is really helpful and fun. such as this

Unfortunately, I did not find many others.

What other resources would you suggest?
 
Wait till you get your match letter, then take as many slack rotations as you can! Ones where you can research where to live in your new city and maybe get away with a long weekend to look at houses/apartments. And ones where you can sneak away in the afternoon and play golf/bean bag toss/whatever and drink beer with a school bud you won't likely see for a long while. Come July 1 (or probably 3rd this year) you will start 4+ years of pathology training, which doesn't demand as much time as clinical medicine, but is still a full time job. You are not expected to be fluent or knowledgeable on day 1--seriously!

If gunners gotta gun, or if you're paranoid about looking foolish (which you will at some point anyway), and have some money to blow, you could buy one of these books, as they're reasonably priced (don't go buying your Rosai or Sternberg set until you're a resident and you have a program to pay for it!):

Molavi - The Practice of Surgical Pathology
Rekhtman - Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists
 
Wait till you get your match letter, then take as many slack rotations as you can! Ones where you can research where to live in your new city and maybe get away with a long weekend to look at houses/apartments. And ones where you can sneak away in the afternoon and play golf/bean bag toss/whatever and drink beer with a school bud you won't likely see for a long while. Come July 1 (or probably 3rd this year) you will start 4+ years of pathology training, which doesn't demand as much time as clinical medicine, but is still a full time job. You are not expected to be fluent or knowledgeable on day 1--seriously!

If gunners gotta gun, or if you're paranoid about looking foolish (which you will at some point anyway), and have some money to blow, you could buy one of these books, as they're reasonably priced (don't go buying your Rosai or Sternberg set until you're a resident and you have a program to pay for it!):

Molavi - The Practice of Surgical Pathology
Rekhtman - Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists
Thank you for the advice
 
Agree with these:
Molavi - The Practice of Surgical Pathology
Rekhtman - Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists

For grossing, would add:
Westra and Hruban - Surgical Pathology Dissection: An Illustrated Guide

As a general reference would add:
Humphrey and Dehner - The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology: Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
 
My advice is to do anything other than pathology! Hang out, watch movies, take up running/triathlons/yoga/meditation. You have the rest of your life to learn pathology.

If you really have to, there are some good book suggestions above. However, your program may be buying you those books already. Save your money.
 
Histology for Pathologists is a good book to use before starting. Learn your normal and variants of normal. Skip all the crap on embryo and other useless parts for each chapter.

Molavi is a wonderful book for residency.

Exactly hate the embryo stuff. I find it completely useless.
 
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