Path Quest.. II yrs...

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Calling all second years...

How are you learning pathology??? Portions taught to us are already half sea deep and i am sailing on top ...

Do u learn the whole of Robbins or just the important topics being said in the lectures???😕
 
Calling all second years...

How are you learning pathology??? Portions taught to us are already half sea deep and i am sailing on top ...

Do u learn the whole of Robbins or just the important topics being said in the lectures???😕

FOR ME: goljan audio, goljan rr pathology, BRS path, path recall for quick quiz questions --glance at big robbins for detail, and man is there some detail there.

Maybe that will chance later in the year but we are doing more heme-onc stuff right now and I dont particularly like the organization (or disorganization, i guess) in robbins so far. I'd say hit the high points of your lecture as well, thats probably where the class test material will will be hiding.
 
Robbins is pretty hefty, but I liked it! Yes, it takes forever to read one page, but I use it more as a reference while reading lecture notes. Also, I did find the review book very helpful. I also like to glance over BRS Path close to an exam.
 
What I do for Path.

1) Read my Pathology (STARS) textbook (out-of-print Goljan textbook) 2-3x
2) Read and memorize BRS Pathology while adding notes from Goljan textbooks and audio
3) Listen to Goljan's audios 2-3x
4) Do q's from Robbins Review of Pathology, BRS Pathology and WebPath q's.

This pretty much does it all. The most important from the list above is q's.
 
Who recommends starting to read Robbins' as an MS1?
 
I recommend you never even buy Robbins.

My school gives it to me anyway. Maybe I should get the
Robbins Basic Pathology text earlier and start reading it
just as a good overview before the real carnage begins during MS2?
 
I'd avoid Robbins.

It's stuck in a weird middle ground that I don't think is very useful except as a reference text. It has tons and tons of details, but not quite enough correlation to clinical practice. It does have clinical correlations, but it seems there are a lot of large gaps or blanks in ther. And it is too dense on science details to be a good review or board study book. Again, it is good as a reference when you have a question from some other source and want to either find a few more details or a different perspective/explanation of the process.

I like pathguy.com for a good overall learning resource (but I'm biased, lol). A bit disorganized but it includes tons of basic science and clinical details and a lot of "heads up" on clinical applications (i.e., "future pathologists, you'll confirm the diagnosis of X by such and such result on test Y"). And a lot of "background" on just why some things are important. And a lot of philosophical rambling too, but that somehow just seems to help me absorb the material. And links to all the gross and histo slides you'll need to aid in learning. And documentation (to articles and research papers in journals and elsewhere) like you wouldn't believe. Practically every sentence has a source where you can read more about what the sentence stated.

For quick review I'm liking Goljan RR pathology. BRS pathology looked pretty good too. Both are detailed and with clinical correlates, but concise enough to be useful for review/refreshing and for focused study. I like the Goljan audio lectures as well because I can play them in the car or running or wherever, and I figure anything I learn that way is just a bonus.
 
Depends on how your department tests...we're pretty much tested straight out of Robbins, which makes life full of Robbinsy goodness.
 
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