Rubin's Vs. Robbins Path??

[bluegold]

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Anybody have any experience with this new text Rubins path by Lippincott??? Is it any good?

 

[fuzzyerin]

Robbins is the bible for Path. Read it, live by it, love it, keep it. There's not much else to say.

 

[bluegold]

yeh, I know Robbins is the daddy mac, I just happened to have stumbled on to this other book which seems to integrate epidemiology, pathophys, etc. But I suppose your right stick with Robbins...

 

[ericdamiansean]

Everyone knows that Robin's path is the daddy mack of patho, but it doesn't contain some essentials..and it can be quite intimidating with all the thickness and all.
And if you don't do your own notes and read directly from Robin's..that's looking for trouble.

I would suggest reading Robin's (The papa path, not the mama path-thinner version), and then, read a clinical book like Davidson's, followed by added learning from the recommended system books.
For me, there's alot of memorizing in patho...but of course..when it comes to describing the morphology/histological picture and I have no idea what it is, it's always safe to say: Areas of necrosis, fibrosis etc..gets you through 😀

 

[Wahoo07]

I'm wondering about Rubin vs. Robbins too. Our school uses Rubin and references it in the notes. I went to the bookstore and compared the two (the new ed. of Rubin vs. the current Robbins), and it looked like Rubin was a lot better. It's easy to say "Robbins has always been the best so use that.", but does anyone have any real experience in comparing the two? 😕

 

[Wednesday]

We use Rubin at my school since that's where Rubin works. 😉

Not a bad book actually. At first I hated it and wished we used Robbins like everyone else. I have an older copy of Robbins that I thought I might use if things got rough, but I found that I didn't mind the Rubin text and never ended up opening the Robbins after the first week or so. It's REALLY inclusive, which can be really annoying at times, but if your class is based on it, I don't think it will hurt to use it. I might just recommend it actually. 🙂

Have fun with Path. It's a great class.

 

[Singh]

My school recommends Rubin, and I did buy it to start with. It's a simple book with a few good illustrations. But if you'r interested in pathology, or learning pathology then I strongly recommend Robbins Basic Pathology. It is an excellent text which makes sure that the student actually learns what disease is. I have said it before, and will say it again: Robbins Pathology is the best book I have ever studied at medical school. It's a far better book in Pathology than Kumar & Clark is in medicine. Don't be frightened by the thickness of the book, because once you start reading it's difficult to let go.
Another plus is that each chapter is divided into a "white background" which fully explains the pathogenesis of a disease, and a "blue background" which only describes pathology. So when reading for exams in pathology, one can simply read the text with blue background.
Conclusion: When choosing between Rubin and Robbins, go for Robbins. You won't regret it.
If you have further questions about the book you may write to [email protected]

Best regards Singh.

 

[Wednesday]

My school recommends Rubin, and I did buy it to start with. It's a simple book with a few good illustrations. But if you'r interested in pathology, or learning pathology then I strongly recommend Robbins Basic Pathology. It is an excellent text which makes sure that the student actually learns what disease is. I have said it before, and will say it again: Robbins Pathology is the best book I have ever studied at medical school. It's a far better book in Pathology than Kumar & Clark is in medicine. Don't be frightened by the thickness of the book, because once you start reading it's difficult to let go.
Another plus is that each chapter is divided into a "white background" which fully explains the pathogenesis of a disease, and a "blue background" which only describes pathology. So when reading for exams in pathology, one can simply read the text with blue background.
Conclusion: When choosing between Rubin and Robbins, go for Robbins. You won't regret it.
If you have further questions about the book you may write to [email protected]

Best regards Singh.

I think we may be talking about two different books. The Rubin I'm talking about is NOT a "simple book" and is bigger than Robbins (REALLY thin pages).

 

[ericdamiansean]

and when we're talking about robbins, there are 3...which one? the huge one, smaller one..or the really small one?

 

[fuzzyerin]

The one I was talking about when I said Robbin's was the bible was Robbin's Pathologic Basis of Disease by Cotran, Kumar and Collins. I would assume that those of you using either "Basic" or "baby" Robbins might be less than impressed with those books, but when I said Robbin's was the bible, I meant the REAL one.

 

[Stinger86]

If you carefully read Robbin's Basic Pathology entirely during your pathology course, you will learn almost everything you need to know as a medical student. If you're interested in pathology a little more than the average med student, then pick up Pathological Basis of Disease. Each book isn't really that long when you consider that you have an entire course in which to read it.

Trust me, pathology is so poorly taught at my school it's sickening. If not for Robbin's Basic Pathology, I wouldn't have learned anything at all.