Histology, Neuroanatomy and Images

[mrmandrake]

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Hey guys,

I have a question for those of you who have already taken the test or are in the know from someone who has. I'm generally pretty weak with histology and images in general mostly because I ignored most of the images that our path professors showed us in class because they were really exotic things that I felt would not be on the boards.

I plan on going through the high yield images in FA and also going through Goljan 3rd edition for the images. I also plan on going through HY Neuroanatomy for those images since I hear angiograms are pretty high yield.

Do you think this is enough? What is everyone else doing? I am shooting for a 250 if that matters. Thanks.

 

[Savannah]

I was a little worried as well, so I googled histology images, or looked up pictures in Big Robbins when FA did not have an illustration. As I studied, I made a list of images I was worried about identifying (such as brain tumors, or cardiac tissue post-MI), and then spent one day looking through Robbins. I thought it was educational.

I thought the histology on the test was straight forward (endometrium, etc.).
I did get stuck on some gross anatomy of the brain (be able to identify the gyri).

I got in the 250s on the test.

 

[hkenshin]

This was my experience (beginning of March):

Angios are definitely high yield, esp. circle of wilis.

Histo was straight forward. Things like identifying organelles on EM. Don't remember any crazy kidney EM or histo, whatever was there was easy. Nothing sticks out in my mind.

Images in general were not there to trick you or make it "hard." I didn't have any crazy path, but I've heard there can be. Know what your fungi look like in real pictures, not the drawings in FA. Go over axial abdominal slices on CT. You've probably seen most of the stuff before like the CXRs, wrist XR and such and the histories they give usually point you in the right direction. I don't remember derm pics, but they are on the NBMEs so try to look @ real pics if you've never seen them IRL of things like basal cell, NF, psorasis, moluscum, etc.

FA images were generally not useful, neither were any of the images from either kaplan or uworld qbanks. I would still go over them, they're included for a reason...Can't comment on goljan, but HY N.A. should be $$.

Also shooting for a 250, we'll see in 2 weeks, but I don't think I got it.

 

[mrmandrake]

Thanks guys for both your posts. I will definitely be giving the brain a harder look now. Good luck on your score hkenshin and post in the experiences section when you find out.