Well, Robbins does have some useful information. But as one of my former attendings was fond of proclaiming, it's a medical student text and you should already have it memorized! I don't quite buy that, even in retrospect -- I used it some in board preparation and had a couple of attendings who would occasionally refer to it for certain things. However, I wouldn't call it particularly useful as a substitute for a dedicated -histopath- or surg path text with lots of relevant histologic images. More useful perhaps as a text to read over during your first few months, or to review the relevant chapter the first day or so when you start a new rotation, but I think most will quickly need something more like Rosai/Sternberg/etc. for tumor/abnormal during surg path rotations +/- something like Histology for Pathologists moreso for normal/variants (one of the big things to learn as a newbie is "normal" vs "abnormal", then figure out what the abnormal means, if anything).
