Reading recommendation for a newbie resident

[Cica]

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Hello

I am going to finally start my residency in Pathology (after being in Internal Med. for 2 years). I would greatly appreciate if you guys could recommend some good books to read for a new resident. Thought I mention that I am in Norway and at the hospital I am going to join we will be doing autopsies, histopathology and grossing all together (no rotations). I don't know how it is in North America (meaning if you guys rotate among different sections or do it all at once.

I would really appreciate books for
- Grossing
- Histopathology
- Autopsies

I am sure there are others who have asked about the same. If anyone knows of the links can you please post it ? Thank you in advance.

 

[mlw03]

http://www.amazon.com/Practice-Surgical-Pathology-Beginners-Diagnostic/dp/0387744851

http://www.amazon.com/Autopsy-Patho...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313785313&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Manual-Surgic...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313785337&sr=1-1

 

[KCShaw]

Of those, I think Lester's "Manual of Surgical Pathology" is likely to get the most use. Where I've been autopsy pathology is largely learned by seeing and doing, and incorporating things you also see grossing in surgical pathology specimens. It never hurts to have an autopsy book under your belt, and they're full of tables for normal weights/measurements, but everyone does the autopsy procedure a little bit differently. I'm less familiar with the first book suggested above, though (it may actually be very useful). I kinda liked "Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology", once you have some slides to look at.

I wouldn't, however, go spending a big chunk of money until you start and hopefully have an opportunity to use the local pathology library to look over some of these books yourself -- pathology books are fairly expensive and unfortunately there are multiple ones (reference texts anyway) for pretty much every organ system.