New Robbins

[smellycat]

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Anyone getting it? Little/Kinda/Different/Very Different from last version? 😕

http://www.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotra...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251351497&sr=8-3

 

[Entgegen]

Would residents/fellows really have much use for Robbins at that point in their training? We used Robbins during our second year or med school...

 

[LoaLoa]

There is no better comprehensive source that I know of for information on many non-neoplastic conditions (as well as for pathophysiology in general) than Robbins. In my opinion, it's a must-have for most pathologists. It's also very inexpensive for what you get.

 

[Ziehl-Neelsen]

The Pathologic Basis of Disease and The American Pageant are the best text books I have ever read.

As an upper level resident I play a little game with Robbins... When I come across a rare condition or little known pathologic pearl, I check Robbins to see if it is mentioned. I would say that about 80% of the time, Robbins has information on the subject written in the clear, concise (and even sometimes amusing) prose for which Robbins is known.

I have often gotten incredulous looks from medical students rotating on service when I pull out the battered Robbins to check something. "How can a medical student text help you," they ask?

I reply, "If you had actually read this medical student text, you would be a better medical student and would have scored higher on step 1."

And the answer to the original question is there has not been much change. One could get away with using the old green edition IMO. The biggest change is the new "non-patholgist" (i.e. med student version). The aforementioned med students who complained that Robbins was so long and boring and that one could get away with reading BRS pathology have finally effected change. They get a shorter book.

 

[yaah]

There was a lot of stuff on the AP boards that came out of Robbins and wasn't covered well elsewhere.

 

[Patho2009]

I saw the new Robbins and I also asked the residents about it. I was told that the molecular pathology part is the thing that changed and updated. This includes the chapter of neoplasia and the molecular discussion of the diseases throughout the book. Minor changes made in other parts.

For me, I just got rid of my old Robbins. I sold it on Amazon!. I want now to buy the new one. Robbin is one of the books that you don't regret updating it.

For Board prep, no need to buy the new one, if you don't want to do so.
as the change sare not significant.


Robbins is good for medical pathology but not good for surgical pathology. Medical pathology includes medical pulmonary diseases such cystic fibrosis, emphysema..etc..medical renal diseases such as polycystic kidney diseases, glomerulopathies,..Genetic and pediatric diseases.....and so on. Robbins is one of the best in these things.


In sum, no need to buy the new edition for the Boards but update it for other things....

 

[yaah]

Yes - the point about medical pathology is a good one. Congenital pathology also.

Robbins is also available on MDconsult if your institution has a subscription (instead of buying it).

 

[BU Pathology]

I needed to read Chapter 4 on coagulation and Shock in order to prepare the medical school syllabus. The septic shock portion has been completely rewritten and is substantially different than the 7th edition. It is now up to date and reflects current thinking about sepsis. The hemodynamic portion, including the coagulapathies, has also been updated but not as significantly.

Robbins is an excellent textbook and an excellent reference book. The first edition was written when Dr. Robbins was a pathologist at the Mallory Institue of Pathology at Boston University. The same drive for excellence in teaching exists within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine here at Boston University (shameless plug).

Dan Remick
Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine

 

[Cloaca]

Would residents/fellows really have much use for Robbins at that point in their training? We used Robbins during our second year or med school...

Robbins is my B/F/F. I love it just as much in residency as I did in med school.

 

[smellycat]

Yeah I definitely used Robbins during residency. It is just so well written. But people are right that it is good for non-surgical path stuff. I always found the neoplasm chapter much more "readable" than other books.