Pathology Shelf Exam

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Well, today I had the absolute honor of taking the path shelf exam....it was fairly straightforward, but there were several questions where I went huh? and couldn't figure out if we had ever learned this....

To prep for this I used BRS and the Robbins question book, which helped me on quite a few questions, but there were still questions and slides I had never ever seen before....since I would like to do extremely well on Step 1, I'm trying to figure out, at least for path, what more I can do?

And after the exam, my inner gunner made me go look at the actual Robbins text for a few questions and slides I was really confused about, and I actually couldn't find the answer...so what does that mean?

 

[DermpathDO]

well, let's see what does it mean that questions on the exam are not in Robbins or BRS???
Nothing actually except maybe your instructors adhere too much to Robbins. Have you checked any of your texts for like medicine and other topics that might possibly hold the answer? This is what I tell my students( I teach 2nd year pathology at my institution). I cannot hope to teach you everything about Pathology you need to know. You need to take everything you are taught and read in all of your disciplines and meld into a whole. If you are told something in one field ( like medicine) that is not covered in pathology you could still be responisble for knowing the pathology on that topic in the Boards AND in your rotations in clinical years.
Medical school is just the start of your learning....you have to read and keep up constantly.....
SOOOOOO the lesson here is you didn't know something on the shelf exam..find out where the answer is...and learn it. It may not be in the path texts but maybe in the medicine or derm or neuro or wherever....You will searching for the answers to your patient's problems for the rest of your medical career. learn how to do THAT!