DermPath Books

[asmallchild]

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Just started, excited to be in the derm clinic finally!

I'm up for dermpath for my next rotation in August, any recommendations on which book to get?

Our program doesn't have any specific recommendations so I figured I'd poll the online community as well as my senior residents 🙂

 

[Iwy Em Hotep]

The consensus is Lever's for background reading, Rapini for day-to-day learning, and Requisites for review.

 

[asmallchild]

wow, sounds good, I might ease into one rather than nabbing all 3 at once, thanks

 

[N-Surge]

Rapini is what I am using next month.

 

[caffeinegirl]

As a derm resident, Rapini should suffice for your dermpath rotation, and also for boards (although the stieffel questions online sponsored by galderma are also a must). As a first year, start off with Rapini, and go through study sets up in dermpath, if they are available.

For good clinicopathologic correlations, McKee is a good reference. However, for the boards and your rotations knowing so much in depth isn't necessary. Dermpath for the boards is about pattern recognition, and study sets and Rapini should get you there. Before buying a reference, if wanted, first browse around the dermpath area (if they have communal texts).

 

[N-Surge]

The book I have kept taking down to help differentiate between very similar diagnoses has been Weedon. What a great book! More online access goodness too! 🙂

Finally got my copy today.

 

[TMP-SMX]

Med student on a dermpath rotation. Weedon seems popular for a reference but it is quite the thick book. I think Rapini is the standard.

 

[N-Surge]

Med student on a dermpath rotation. Weedon seems popular for a reference but it is quite the thick book. I think Rapini is the standard.

Thick, just like Lever... 1000+ pages is something one simply just has to deal unless you want to keep going to other books to fill in the gaps of those lighter reviews.

I have to agree with Iwy Em Hotep. To learn this stuff I have found myself needing more than Rapini, which is probably pretty good for someone who already has seen this stuff at least once or twice and needs a prep fr the boards. I could have gone with Lever and may have done so if I had found that book on the shelf first. But I ran in to Weedon first and found it to be answering the questions we had during sign out.

Fortunately my program does dermpath slide readings every week as a group so I had time to dork around with different books. After buying Rapini I saw Elston's book. It seemed more my style of a review. Then I ran into Weedon, and the rest is history...

Don't short change yourself by "only" getting a review book. If you have access to older copies of the larger tomes and are able to borrow them from path and/or derm then by all means at least do this.