Rapid Review Pathology or BRS Path?

[hucm2009]

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I have BRS path already and use it for classwork, but which is the better book for board studying??

 

[superoxide]

Check out this link:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=301015&highlight=BRS+path

 

[Taus]

You could try for the best of both worlds and use the Goljan Audio + BRS Path

 

[salsterz]

A lot of people support the BRS Path book. I personally found Goljian Rapid review to be a more easy read. Both books contain the neccessary information. I guess it just depends on the style that appeals to you. For me, Goljian is the God father of Pathology and using Rapid review with Gojian audio has been a great way to learn Path.

 

[(nicedream)]

I vote for RR.

 

[bananamd]

Rr

 

[SquidDoc]

The new BRS path was a great buy for step 1. I did well on all the path on the USMLE and COMLEX. I used BRS, goljan audio, and Robins text/review question book.

 

[reza423]

is reading the RR book enough or is it necessary to listen to the lectures to get the maximum out of the book. seems like listening to all those thirty seven 50 min lectures would take too much time. its just not my style and if doing the RR book is enough ill stick to that.

 

[kaboodle]

It's all relative. It depends on how strong your schools path department is. At my school, the path instructors suck a$$, so I listened to the Goljan lectures and made my own notes while doing so. It took me a week or so listening to one lecture a day, and when I was done, I learned a bunch of path and had a notebook full of notes to study from. Had I known that he lectures from his RR book, I probably would have used it. But, now I can flip through his RR book and know so much more than I ever did before. It was the best time spent studying for boards in my opinion.....Goljan, if your reading this, your the man and I owe you a beer!

 

[(nicedream)]

It's all relative. It depends on how strong your schools path department is. At my school, the path instructors suck a$$, so I listened to the Goljan lectures and made my own notes while doing so. It took me a week or so listening to one lecture a day, and when I was done, I learned a bunch of path and had a notebook full of notes to study from. Had I known that he lectures from his RR book, I probably would have used it. But, now I can flip through his RR book and know so much more than I ever did before. It was the best time spent studying for boards in my opinion.....Goljan, if your reading this, your the man and I owe you a beer!

How could you listen to it all in a week at one lecture/day, when there's 42 lectures?

 

[kaboodle]

How could you listen to it all in a week at one lecture/day, when there's 42 lectures?

I said I listened to them in a "week or so", probably closer to 2 weeks though. Also, some of the lectures overlapped with others. so I wound up listening to more than one lecture. In any case, it was well worth it.