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[username456789]

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So my school really doesn't do any dermopathology at all, besides any incidental findings as part of other system disorders. I had originally thought we had at least a little bit of it at the end of the year, but I recently realized that's not the case. I don't want to get stuck learning a lot of new stuff during my dedicated study period, so any advice on what to do for it at this point? Just read through the RR Path chapter? I find that, while RR is great for reading through after I've already been presented with the material, using it to learn something new can be a bit difficult at times.

 

[MilkmanAl]

I used it to learn, and I've been doing pretty well on practice questions and such. I actually thought the skin/msk chapter was one of the better ones in RR, but make sure you use WebPath questions to fill in details when necessary.

 

[jmayer]

I think reading RR for only the skin issues mentioned in FA is a good way to approach it.

The skin chapter in RR seems excessive and might overwhelm you (as it did for me). I ended up reading the BRS chapter to get the main points and then FA to enhance it some more.

RR was pretty good for MSK though.

 

[username456789]

Good deal. I'm doing Neuro review now but I'll try to hit Skin next using those ideas. Probably some combo of RR and BRS Path since I have both. BRS might be good to get big picture stuff, then delve into some details with Goljan.

 

[Rabbit Hole]

You have most likely learned everything in the RR Skin chapter in one way or another. If you notice - most of it is microbiology, immunology, and tumors. The difficult part is differentiating one disease from another (duh) and this can usually be done by examining the pictures. If you get a "skin" question with a picture - it should be a dead give away, much like the micro questions where you can eliminate half the choices because you know the difference between G+ and G-. Know what the terminology looks like (papule, pustule). Remember, this is Step 1 - you don't need to know as much as a dermatologist but you should know more than a nurse practitioner doing a dermatology residency at USF.

 

[username456789]

You have most likely learned everything in the RR Skin chapter in one way or another.

Sadly, I haven't. Definitely covered a lot of the micro stuff (exanthems) but we pretty much NEVER talked about the various skin cancers, or various infestations like lice/mites/etc.

I just got hammered by a simple 10 question block on QBank in Skin/CT.

 

[FutureDoc4]

You have most likely learned everything in the RR Skin chapter in one way or another. If you notice - most of it is microbiology, immunology, and tumors. The difficult part is differentiating one disease from another (duh) and this can usually be done by examining the pictures. If you get a "skin" question with a picture - it should be a dead give away, much like the micro questions where you can eliminate half the choices because you know the difference between G+ and G-. Know what the terminology looks like (papule, pustule).

Remember, this is Step 1 - you don't need to know as much as a dermatologist but you should know more than a nurse practitioner doing a dermatology residency at USF.

^👍👍

 

[Cooolguy]

skin was "high yield" for me considering its only a few pages in First Aid--RR was pretty good for it though