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Hey guys, just wrapped up my 2nd path block (cards, pulm, and endo)...and well I did ok but I guess I'm just a bit frustrated with attempts and studying for step and school and well basically "doing too much" It hit me especially when I realized the difficulties of path of literally knowing it ALL--> from etiology, path, risk factors, diagnosis (and all its nuances of xrays, histopath, gross images, physical diagnosis), treatment (and all its pharm)....it makes me think GEEZ how can i possibly know ALL of this for every disease in the allotted time!
My school does an alright job of teaching but I guess when it comes down to it, theres so much to do and so little time. I'm not trying to honor path or pharm by any means but instead I would like to appreciate a better understanding of the whys and simply put, when it comes to the understanding, lectures often don't cut it...On the other hand Pathoma and kaplan pharm videos with Dr. Raymond on the other hand do a phenomonal job of explaining the material line by line and explaining the whys. Same with Goljan audios. and doing this on top of schoolwork and everything eats up my time making me do nothing but study study, skip lectures, and workout. I hope Im going a longer way doing this than just focusing on school because the ultimate goal honestly, is to dominate UWorld and Step I.
1.) So, my questions: At the end of the day, my main question is by putting in the time to do pathoma, kaplan vids to understand the Why or mechanistic reasoning of often neglected issues (the pathogenesis of a disease or pharmacologic actions/toxicities of drugs), am I going farther than just blindly memorizing class lectures?
2.) As far as "diagnosis" goes- xrays, cts, gross- will the images in pathoma and UWorld suffice so im not tearing my hair going through a histopath textbook or doing all of WebPath?
Thanks.
My school does an alright job of teaching but I guess when it comes down to it, theres so much to do and so little time. I'm not trying to honor path or pharm by any means but instead I would like to appreciate a better understanding of the whys and simply put, when it comes to the understanding, lectures often don't cut it...On the other hand Pathoma and kaplan pharm videos with Dr. Raymond on the other hand do a phenomonal job of explaining the material line by line and explaining the whys. Same with Goljan audios. and doing this on top of schoolwork and everything eats up my time making me do nothing but study study, skip lectures, and workout. I hope Im going a longer way doing this than just focusing on school because the ultimate goal honestly, is to dominate UWorld and Step I.
1.) So, my questions: At the end of the day, my main question is by putting in the time to do pathoma, kaplan vids to understand the Why or mechanistic reasoning of often neglected issues (the pathogenesis of a disease or pharmacologic actions/toxicities of drugs), am I going farther than just blindly memorizing class lectures?
2.) As far as "diagnosis" goes- xrays, cts, gross- will the images in pathoma and UWorld suffice so im not tearing my hair going through a histopath textbook or doing all of WebPath?
Thanks.