First 7 chapters of robbins path Versus RR

[winkleweizen]

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So ive read in a few study plans (DITs and Taus) that they recommend reading the first 7 chapters of robbins path. Why is this? Would it not just be enough to go through the first 8 chapters of Goljan's RR?

Thanks.

 

[Day man]

I don't know anyone that would sit down and read robbins for board review. It's a HUGE time void. RR is way more than sufficient in my opinion, plus the FA section is pretty good (at least I think so?). I then did the "general" questions on utah web. It would take me like 4-5 days of nonstop to get through robbins again...loath that damn book haha.

 

[winkleweizen]

Thanks, but i dont think the study plans were advocating reading through all of robbins just the first 7 chapters on inflammation, neoplasia, cell injury, genetics and stuff. Idk ill prob just stick with RR.

 

[dozitgetchahi]

I don't know about DIT, but the Taus method doesn't seem to involve reading any of Robbins. He stuck to RR, which is the right idea to me - reading Robbins for boards would be epically inefficient.

 

[Rollo]

Yeah, reading Robbins requires significant time commitment (we're talking 2-3 months even for those first few chapters). Reason is that it is a very comprehensive textbook on those topics and to really understand them would require a very long time.

The time, that you simply do not have at this point. Maybe earlier in the year, it would have been a good idea.

Stick to RR for those topics and you will be fine because he has condensed those topics from Robbins in his book.

 

[hyrule]

robbins has been pretty useless for me in general
Even when I tried actively reading Robbins during the year, I was confused by the amount of detail

I sat down with Gojan for a few hours going through the first couple of chapters and understood things 1000x better