Recommended Retina book?

[Iii]

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What retina book do you recommend. I was thinking of Ryan's. It's from 2005.

What are the other big retina books or at least a medium sized one. I don't want a pocket retina manual.

The retina attendings are asking me questions and I don't know any of the answers. I tried skimming through the academy series and it helps but seems a bit skimpy. Of course, it's July but, still, I need to know more retina. Funny, the peds attendings' questions are not so hard. Those questions seem to be found in the academy series book.

 

[MR1]

I am assuming you are a resident and not a fellow since you refered to peds attendings as well.

If I recommend a good retina book to you and you buy it you will be disappointed. I imagine they are asking you questions about stuff that is just now coming out in the literature. There is new retina stuff everyday it seems and alot of it is constantly changing. No book will help you here.

But to answer your question, Ryan is great but little outdated now, new edition is in the works but I haven't heard an official due date. Yanuzzi makes an excellent atlas. Peyman makes a great surgical text. Gass's macular disease is excellent but out of print and when I tried finding one I couldn't.

Lastly it is just July and if you are a PGY2 NO ONE expects you to know much

 

[MstaKing10]

Unless you are going into retina, wouldn't fork out major bucks for some of these books. Ryan alone is about $700-800 and may be too dense for your needs. While I agree that they are out of date, the principles, descriptions, and pathophysiology of disease described in these books is not. Gass atlas is being updated as well and may be coming out next year (I hope!). Yanuzzi atlas is fantastic but not that much text. I'm assuming the OP wants a text more than an atlas. Peyman and Charles books are great surgical books but again, not sure if this is beyond the scope of the OP or not.

Your library or attendings may be willing to let you borrow some of the above texts so that you don't have to fork out the big bucks if that's an issue. I would use these if you have a specific question about a particular subject but not as a general text unless you are really interested in retina.

Kanski and/or Yanoff have a decent retina section in their books. You may want to fork out for one of these anyways as they are great comprehensive texts.

Read journals and ask your retina attendings about the major studies and be up to date on these to know what the more recent literature says about treatment (ie MARINA, ANCHOR, CRUISE etc). This is where you'll find most texts are out of date.

 

[Visionary]

Read journals and ask your retina attendings about the major studies and be up to date on these to know what the more recent literature says about treatment (ie MARINA, ANCHOR, CRUISE etc). This is where you'll find most texts are out of date.

This. I stopped reading textbooks a long time ago. The field is advancing far too rapidly. Just use the BCSC for the basic overview and supplement with journal articles and atlases. Any retina text (and a lot of other medical texts, for that matter) will be out of date on most topics before it hits the shelves.

 

[Iii]

I want to read about diseases that are not changing too much. ARMD, I can see where the texts are not up to date. I was thinking of shelling out to get Ryan's, though I might settle for Kanski.

Is Kanski ok for residents even though it isn't American?

 

[Visionary]

I want to read about diseases that are not changing too much. ARMD, I can see where the texts are not up to date. I was thinking of shelling out to get Ryan's, though I might settle for Kanski.

Is Kanski ok for residents even though it isn't American?

Treatment of almost every bread and butter retinal disease (AMD, RVO, diabetic retinopathy) and even a lot of surgical approaches (small gauge PPV, implantable drug delivery devices) have changed significantly just in the last several years. About the only ones that haven't changed are those we don't have good treatments for, such as hereditary retinal dystrophies. But even with those, there is a lot of recent research (gene therapy, stem cells, chip implants) you won't find in the texts. The fact is that textbooks are almost irrelevant nowadays. At least the BCSC is updated regularly. The only text I would spend money on is an atlas, as the clinical appearance of retinal diseases is fairly static (although the evolution in imaging technology is providing new views of established diseases). I bought Albert & Jakobiec as a resident, and have rarely cracked it. It looks good on my desk, though.

 

[Iii]

The only text I would spend money on is an atlas, as the clinical appearance of retinal diseases is fairly static (although the evolution in imaging technology is providing new views of established diseases). I bought Albert & Jakobiec as a resident, and have rarely cracked it. It looks good on my desk, though.

Thanks. ..then how am I supposed to study for OKAPs and boards? More than one person told me that there are some questions that the answer is not in the Academy BCSC book. The average resident will get the questions where the Academy series covers it but I might only get some of them right because I'm an idiot. If I can get a few of the questions not covered in the Academy series, then I'll be equal to or a bit lower than the average. Help!

 

[Visionary]

Thanks. ..then how am I supposed to study for OKAPs and boards? More than one person told me that there are some questions that the answer is not in the Academy BCSC book. The average resident will get the questions where the Academy series covers it but I might only get some of them right because I'm an idiot. If I can get a few of the questions not covered in the Academy series, then I'll be equal to or a bit lower than the average. Help!

Hey, chill out. You will never be able to know everything on the OKAPs, no matter how many things you read. That's by design, to avoid a ceiling effect on test scores. If you study the BCSC and supplement with atlases, journal articles, lectures, and your clinical experience, you'll do fine. Do not look at the OKAPs like the MCAT or USMLE. The importance of high OKAP scores is overstated by most, even for most fellowship applications. As long as you're in the middle of the pack or better, you should be okay for the WQE and orals. Those are the tests that really matter. If you ace the OKAPs, you either have a photographic memory or are spending far too much time reading and not enough time in the clinic/OR.