What do you study regularly?

[suckerfree]

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As graduate pathology residents, do any of you ever study any of the materials used during the M2 pathology course in the beginning? e.g. in the beginning of residency, will you re-study Robbins Review of Pathology qbook? Or is it expected when you start residency you have all the material from the M2 course memorized completely already? I suppose it must be like any other field where you learn mainly after a while through practice, looking things up, attending grand rounds, and reading journals.

 

[beary]

I'm a first year resident and I use Robbins all the time.

 

[LADoc00]

I never read a single text, chapter or even full length page until I started studying for boards. I did my best to produce my own unique untainted opinion of pathology before diving into published material...well that and I was a fairly severe computer game junkie at the time.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I never read a single text, chapter or even full length page until I started studying for boards. I did my best to produce my own unique untainted opinion of pathology before diving into published material..

This is very encouraging since I don't read now.

 

[yaah]

I think I used some of my micro and immunology stuff during my first year. Micro stuff will always be useful. Immunology changes so frequently it probably won't though. In terms of the rest of stuff, all the pathology is too basic to have that much relevance, but if you still needed to take step III or wanted clinical review material, or whatever, it might be useful. There are other options though, don't kill yourself trying to save all of your notes.

 

[cytoborg]

The only thing from med school that I've used is Micro Made Ridiculously Simple - I needed a crash course after not touching micro for almost 5 years. Not sure it's detailed enough for CP boards but it's all I can handle right now. Catalase, coagulase, urease, oh my.

I bought Robbins as an M4 but haven't used it much. Bought a whole bunch of other books (Rosai, etc) as an R1 which are gathering dust on my shelf. Come to think of it, I really don't read much at all. Oops.