Robbins Basic Path (baby robbins 7th edition) vs. Main Robbins

[tega]

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for those who have looked over both....is there really any difference. Am i missing much by using the abridged version (7th ed)

 

[camjakb]

Our path professor said that she would prefer us to read 90% of baby Robbins than 10% of big Robbins.

 

[doc05]

both are good. obviously big robbins is more comprehensive, but be realistic. you will barely have enough time to read baby robbins, and it contains all the information you need.

 

[southerndoc]

Originally posted by camjakb
Our path professor said that she would prefer us to read 90% of baby Robbins than 10% of big Robbins.

Of course it's better if you read 100% of big Robbins.

Having read both, I can say that big Robbins does have more info, but I don't think it's that much.

We were required to read big Robbins, but our path was in organ systems over 2 years as opposed to a single path course. Therefore, we actually had time to read big Robbins.

 

[Halaljello]

anyone have any comments on BRS Pathology first and or second edition?

I also heard Robbin's review of pathology is a good buy. are the questions in it any good? was it helpful for anyone???

thanks

 

[dharmabum7]

BRS pathology 2nd edition is great for the shelf exam...there is no major difference between the editions except the second one has "key" points that help you focus on some of the more high yield facts...

 

[rxfudd]

Apparently, our path course this year will be structred exactly as it is in big Robbins. The sequence of the lectures even corresponds to the sequence of material in Robbins (our syllabus has page numbers associated with each lecture - so lecture #1 = pp 1-30, lecture #2 = pp 31-60, lecture 3 = 61-90, etc, all the way to the end). Our school had a major path structural overhaul this year since our path professor of twenty-some years retired, so I guess this is what they came up with. Looks like I'll be reading lots of Robbins...

 

[jed2023]

Originally posted by dharmabum7
BRS pathology 2nd edition is great for the shelf exam...there is no major difference between the editions except the second one has "key" points that help you focus on some of the more high yield facts...

Actually, there are quite a few updates. The first edition is old as hell, over a decade now. If you check out the intro, you'll see the new topics added to the 2nd edition, some of which are significant. Just to list a concrete example, in the 2nd edition there is a discussion about apoptosis in the first chapter that extends for several pages. In the first edition, I think apoptosis got maybe one or two paragraphs (I used to have it but threw it out).
The revisions to the new edition reflect changes (a lot of it on the molecular level) from 1993 to 2002.