pathology without Robbins

[theonlytycrane]

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Is this blasphemy? 2018 millennial thinking? M1 rookie mistakes?

- just a person YOLO'ing with Pathoma

 

[shisong]

yes me too. pathoma + FA + Zanki is all i have

 

[softball2344]

I don't understand the hype about Robbins I made the mistake of buying it thinking it would cover clinical stuff as well but it doesn't go into nearly as much clinical depth as a medical student needs to know. I understand knowing the pathology is important but I can get both in a good pathophysiology book

 

[mistafab]

I am all about robbins for understanding. Pathoma and stuff is just review. While you are having your primary learning I believe it is more effective to use a primary source, rather than review resources. The review stuff is good to supp the primary resources.

 

[Mad Jack]

I still occasionally dig up my copy of Robbins, it's a damn good book

 

[Nucleophile1]

Robbins is great for practice questions.

 

[takeurmeds02]

6 more weeks of preclinical lectures and I've never used Robbins. Maintained above average in courses so who knows - YMMV.

Seriously only use Pathoma to review.

 

[theonlytycrane]

Robbins is great for practice questions.

does Robbins have practice questions?

6 more weeks of preclinical lectures and I've never used Robbins. Maintained above average in courses so who knows - YMMV.

Seriously only use Pathoma to review.

You only use Pathoma?

 

[Nucleophile1]

does Robbins have practice questions?

I have the Robbins and Cotran review of Pathology book alongside the regular Robbins book. I love the Robbins review practice questions, great practice if you have NBME exams.

 

[takeurmeds02]

does Robbins have practice questions?



You only use Pathoma?

I used lecture material and the random google/youtube search to learn most things. I've just recently started using pathoma to review stuff that I've already learned. It's useful as soon as you start organ systems.

 

[Pepe18]

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[akuko2]

Robbins is great if you actually want to understand the pathophysiology of what is going on. If you just want to pass a test and hear a guy say, 'and THAT is very high yield' 500 times then Pathoma is the best. You do you.

 

[21Rush12]

Robbins is great for some but I am near comatose after about 10 pages no matter how hard I try to care what it says.

I gave up using it after about a month and just watch Boards and Beyond/Wikipedia everything. I get along just fine.

 

[DBV]

Never touched Robbins. 250+ step 1 with just ufap. N=1

 

[theonlytycrane]

'and THAT is very high yield'

I love when I hear dat

 

[takeurmeds02]

Robbins is great if you actually want to understand the pathophysiology of what is going on. If you just want to pass a test and hear a guy say, 'and THAT is very high yield' 500 times then Pathoma is the best. You do you.

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[Peach Newport]

This thread is an excellent example of how entitled this new generation of “millennials” has become. You know how I became a doctor? By studying medicine. Not by “twittering the pathomas” and “uworlding first aid.” We did a thing called “reading books.” You should try it sometime. When I did MY intern year, my attending would tell me “Intern 7A, tell me Robbins page 351 paragraph 2!” And I had 20 seconds to recite it verbatim from memory, and end it with the phrase “if it please m’lord.” A stumble would earn me 15 push-ups and 5 call hours. Believe me, we didn’t make mistakes back then. We can’t do this nowadays, the ACGME coddles you too much and liberals would probably call this “sexual harassment.”

 

[Stagg737]

Everyone I have every talked to has said Pathoma alone is not enough to actually learn pathology well enough for boards and I agree. You don't necessarily need to use Robbins (though I really liked it), but you should be using something beyond pathoma to actually teach you pathology instead of just memorizing a bunch of random facts about the diseases and looking at a table here and there.

 

[Vain Brother]

Robbins is great for some but I am near comatose after about 10 pages no matter how hard I try to care what it says.

I gave up using it after about a month and just watch Boards and Beyond/Wikipedia everything. I get along just fine.

the great thing about robbins is that you really don't need to read more than 10-15 pages a day

 

[831929]

Why are people dogging on pathoma so much? I use it for most of my course lectures since it is better organized and mostly covers about the same stuff. I would just supplement pathoma with the Robbins review book and make sure you do all the questions before each exam pertaining to that system.