FA Photos and Slides

[psychobob]

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Hi,

I was wondering if FA covers enough photos and slides for the test. I'm also using HY neuro for MRI/CTs. Should I be looking at a few more sources? I also have RR patho which i'm not using and Review of Pathology Qbook. Thanks.

 

[lankysudanese]

Hi,

I was wondering if FA covers enough photos and slides for the test. I'm also using HY neuro for MRI/CTs. Should I be looking at a few more sources? I also have RR patho which i'm not using and Review of Pathology Qbook. Thanks.

it seems odd that you are worried about photos/slides, yet not planning to use Review of Pathology Qbook. that book is so money when it comes to slides.

 

[psychobob]

it seems odd that you are worried about photos/slides, yet not planning to use Review of Pathology Qbook. that book is so money when it comes to slides.

I will be using the Qbook, but I wasn't sure how sufficient it will be when it comes to slides/photos.

How important is it to study the photos and slides anyways? Is it possible to answer those types of Qs by just reading the stem? Thanks.

 

[R_C_Hutchinson]

I will be using the Qbook, but I wasn't sure how sufficient it will be when it comes to slides/photos.

How important is it to study the photos and slides anyways? Is it possible to answer those types of Qs by just reading the stem? Thanks.

FWIW I think that book (the Robbins question book) is one of the most underrated resources. The questions force you to make mental differentiations between similar diseases (how do lab values differ between all the different ways you make a liver unhappy etc.) which is really valuable on NBME type questions.

In answer to your last question, no. You need to know the pictures. An example is a question that basically says "woman shows up with a fracture, here's a micrograph" and they expect you to know it's multiple myeloma. Same with acute vs chronic pancreatitis, different lung disease processes, and a whole bunch more.