books.

Expensive is an understatement! The only one I've purchased so far is Sternberg, and the WHO lymphoma/leukemia classification book. Once the new edition comes out, I'll probably by Henry's book for Clinical Pathology.

In the meantime, I've decided to take the earlier edition of Histology for Pathologists out from our school library--still deciding if I will buy that one when the new edition comes out.

 

I like Sternberg. Not as complete as Rosai (which has better quality photos and is more complete) but Sternberg is very practical. Also Rosai is written buy one guy (I think) so you get a limited perspective. Whereas Sternberg has multiple contributors.

 

I did not realize there were programs that did not give residents a book fund...

 

Unless you're a savant don't bother. I had a similar idea but it's utterly useless to just sit down and read a surgical pathology text as a first year resident. When you have some experience and have developed a context for the major lesions in each organ system then cold reading Rosai or Sternberg will make some sense.

If you want to read something useful start with Robbins. It's inexpensive and digestable.

 

I think the Hopkins surgical pathology site is very helpful as well.
You can search by organ system. it's very thorough.
Pathoutlines is a decent site as well.
http://pathology2.jhu.edu/sp/

http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/

 

Path outlines is a great site. It's been of great help on many occasions.

 

Is anyone currently reading from or browsed through Silverberg's Principles and Practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology?

Is it worth buying Silverberg instead of a combo of Sternberg and Demay?

 

I own and like Silverberg quite a bit. It is readable and digestible in small doses even in the midst of a busy surg path rotation. If you're in the market for an introductory cyto book I can recommend Cibas.. much more user-friendly than the baby DeMay IMHO.

If you want a trial of a book before you buy it, consider taking advantage of interlibrary loan, available free somewhere close to you. I'm amazed that more people don't use it!

 

I have Silverberg, Demay, and Cibas.

I really like Silverberg. The cyto side-by-side with the surg path is very nice and presents a whole-view approach to various entities.

Baby Demay is alright. (almost) Everybody in our program has it. People swear by it. I'm a bit underwhelmed. When you read it, the descriptions all seem to say the same things.

Cibas I really like because it has nice like bulleted tables for a lot of entities with the important points, then semi-wordy descriptive comments. Nice pictures also.

As for reading... I read 25 pages a day, everyday. It doesn't sound like a lot, but you can get through Robbins in 2.5 months, Henry in 2.5 months, etc. This takes me about 2.5 hours a day. Then if I'm on surg path I try to read on at least 2 of the more interesting cases for whatever run I'm on.