how to study for pathology

[madeyedhl]

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TT gosh its harsh.

our professors are smashing in 80 pages of ppt slides per 2hour lecture.

i guess its true for all ms school but doing 1 chapter of robbins per day is too much for me TT

i heard that goljan or rr is good. but....

is it worth the time? shouldnt i be delving into robbins instead?

the ppt is like the exact summary word for word of robbins TT


any suggestions?

 

[Blade28]

What does "TT" mean? 😕

We spent a year covering path, averaging a chapter or two of big Robbins every week. One chapter a day? That's nuts! 😱

 

[RxnMan]

Blade28 - Depending on the theme, we'll do better than a chapter per lecture, or it'll be cake for a week. It varies.

OP - Robbins has been consistenly the best disease text I've read so far. I've found it appropriate in depth and subject matter for us 2nd years.

 

[Blade28]

OP - Robbins has been consistenly the best disease text I've read so far. I've found it appropriate in depth and subject matter for us 2nd years.

Agreed. I was proud when my big Robbins was all highlighted by the end of my MS-II year.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Big Robbins is a waste of time, talk about low yield. Listen to Goljan while reading his RR, do the University of Utah webpath slides and questions, and if you still want some more practice do the Robbins Review questions. When you have done these you will rock whatever pathology comes your way.

 

[45408]

Big Robbins is a waste of time, talk about low yield. Listen to Goljan while reading his RR, do the University of Utah webpath slides and questions, and if you still want some more practice do the Robbins Review questions. When you have done these you will rock whatever pathology comes your way.

I looked at Goljan, and it looks nice, for review. If I'm going to learn it the first time around, I want to read the text version. I've got about 600 pages of Robbins highlighted, and it works well for me. I'm not trying to memorize it - if I retain 20% of what's in the big Robbins, I'll ace the test. 😉 I need to retain more like 80% of what's in a review book, and that's harder for me to do.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Big Robbins is a waste of time, talk about low yield. Listen to Goljan while reading his RR, do the University of Utah webpath slides and questions, and if you still want some more practice do the Robbins Review questions. When you have done these you will rock whatever pathology comes your way.

Aside from the audio, this was my technique for my last path exam, and I made a B. 🙁 I could ace webpath and Robbins, but the exam threw in all this extra microbiology and phys stuff. Now I've realized I need to memorize the syllabus prepared for our class. Our first test was more big picture, but the second test had all this nitty gritty annoying details.

So I guess what I'm saying is advice is both school and exam specific. Focusing on webpath and Robbins questions for the first test led to me scoring a high A, so eh, who knows.

 

[RxnMan]

Big Robbins is a waste of time, talk about low yield. Listen to Goljan while reading his RR, do the University of Utah webpath slides and questions, and if you still want some more practice do the Robbins Review questions. When you have done these you will rock whatever pathology comes your way.

Oh yeah - forgot about that one. That's a great site.

 

[45408]

Oh yeah - forgot about that one. That's a great site.

Hmmm, maybe I should look at it.

 

[osli]

www.pathguy.com

 

[Doctor Bagel]

www.pathguy.com

I really have trouble figuring out the organization of his site. Do you have any tips for finding the good stuff?

 

[Abducens]

I looked at Goljan, and it looks nice, for review. If I'm going to learn it the first time around, I want to read the text version. I've got about 600 pages of Robbins highlighted, and it works well for me. I'm not trying to memorize it - if I retain 20% of what's in the big Robbins, I'll ace the test. 😉 I need to retain more like 80% of what's in a review book, and that's harder for me to do.

That doesn't really make alot of sense, but whatever. 👍

 

[45408]

That doesn't really make alot of sense, but whatever. 👍

Cliffs: Robbins has more information in it.

 

[osli]

I really have trouble figuring out the organization of his site. Do you have any tips for finding the good stuff?

Yeah, a ton of stuff there and not intuitively organized at first glance.

Look at the pathology topics on the left. Organized by subject/system/organ/etc. When you click on each one, you'll have to scroll down past a bunch of stuff that each "topic" lecture contains, such as disclaimers, general info about the site, slice of life reference numbers, quizbank reference numbers, etc.

Also, in the center of the main page under "medical teacher" are pathology meltdown links... a good high yield list of pathology pearls and "must know for boards."

 

[madeyedhl]

oh, thanks for all this info~ when i posted help for histology quite a while ago, not much was interested.... lol maybe path interests more ppl~~~


anyway TT means... crying... the upper horizontal- eye, vertical- teears. lol its korean.

 

[mjl1717]

www.pathguy.com

Yes this is good and for the "real neophytes" getting a Masters or Phd. in Path is a breather also!

 

[CatsandCradles]

At first I was really enthusiastic about Robins, but after a year and almost a half - I have made it a commitment to avoid that thing.

The book is simply massive. It scares me. I am terrified by it. Gives me bad dreams at night even!


Now that Robbins work book - I mean the one with all those gazillion questions in it....that is worth gold.

 

[audramill]

You must check this out... JACKPOT! If your exams include a practical portion, than this is a great way to study. Someone with the username of "washington deceit" published over 640 videos that carefully guide you through histopathology. The audio is good and he must be an MS prof... but I haven't figured out where. He's not at GWU, from what I can tell. Maybe Georgetown?

http://www.youtube.com/WashingtonDeceit

The videos are short 2-6 minute snips of everything from adenocarcinomas, seminomas, SLE, atherosclerosis, etc. He is amazing!
😍

His videos that are titled "Shotgun" show you all the normal tissue that you forgot since taking microanatomy. Had this been online last year, my studying would have taken so much less time. ENJOY!!! 👍