Which Pathology to use?

[baylor77536]

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I've got BRS, Kaplan notes and Goljan notes.
Any suggestions on what to focus more on??

 

[Long Dong]

I've got BRS, Kaplan notes and Goljan notes.
Any suggestions on what to focus more on??

I liked goljan's stars review of path book. This was my primary source with his audio, i didn't even have to open one text book during second year.

 

[baylor77536]

Should I focus more on Goljans lecture notes or the Kaplan lecture notes??

I know this is all relative to opinion, but maybe some insight from people who have used both.

 

[emtji]

not familiar with goljan. i liked brs alot. i found the kaplan notes to be far far far to lengthy and wordy to be useful. go through the kaplan lecture notes (all three volumes) once, but memorize the 300+ pages of BRS. you should be able to do the latter in about 2.5 days.

 

[VincentAdultman]

not familiar with goljan. i liked brs alot. i found the kaplan notes to be far far far to lengthy and wordy to be useful. go through the kaplan lecture notes (all three volumes) once, but memorize the 300+ pages of BRS. you should be able to do the latter in about 2.5 days.

For some reason I always thought it was funny when people say MEMORIZE first aid or MEMORIZE BRS. Especially memorizing 300 pages in 2.5 days. DAMN, that's EASY!!

Pop quiz: what's the 34th word on page 78 of BRS path?

Of course memorization is useless if you walk into your step one exam and don't know what any of that memorized info means.

But to answer the OP, go with BRS, Kaplan's wasn't that great unless you supplement it with lecture. Especially if that lecturer is John Barone, pathologist to the stars. He's my hero.

 

[lsu1000]

Listened to a few minutes of him.....felt like I was being sold a car.

 

[arnoldchiari]

I've got BRS, Kaplan notes and Goljan notes.
Any suggestions on what to focus more on??

Pathophysiology for the Boards and Wards is concise and really hits the high points and helped me do really well, so I highly recommend it. Although some find it harder to follow/read. Use it at the end to refresh and make sure you've got the key points down, but don't use it in the beginning to learn cuz they don't explain much.

Goljan audio is amazing in getting you to think like the dudes who write those question and how they like to trick you sometimes. I wouldn't say alot of my questions were straight out of goljan, but he sure is fun to listen to, most of the time. and when i have a question that goljan talked about, the answer just jumps out at you screaming, pick me!!

Do tons of questions. Qbank, Robbins Review of path question book, some university of utah webpath thing online (just google for it) has good images and free questions.

this is more anatomy/path, but know ur MRI's/CT/x-rays. there are so many of those questions!

goodluck.

 

[GenSurg]

BRS Path was a great book for me for Step 1. It covers the basics and gives enough information to do well on the test as long as you have a strong foundation in path from your coursework.

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[dynx]

I've got BRS, Kaplan notes and Goljan notes.
Any suggestions on what to focus more on??

Kaplan was worthless, I tossed it out.
Goljan is okay, I didn't like the layout of his notes but the important info is there. I don't have any knowledge of his audio.

BRS Path is ALL the info you will ever need. If you use that and FA and know them well you can do as well as you want to do on step 1, so if you are looking for 100% coverage and can learn well from a text format I would say power through BRS, and yes...memorize it, repetition is key, its not that hard but may take you more than 2.5 days, I gave myself a full week minus a day off, to cover path alone.

 

[Pox in a box]

BRS Path is ALL the info you will ever need. If you use that and FA and know them well you can do as well as you want to do on step 1

NO! BRS Path is not all the info you will ever need. Neither is FA. Using them in combination is decent but neither is complete. I personally found BRS Pathology to be simply an overview and far from complete. Since it is an older book, there are some errors.

 

[dynx]

NO! BRS Path is not all the info you will ever need. Neither is FA. Using them in combination is decent but neither is complete. I personally found BRS Pathology to be simply an overview and far from complete. Since it is an older book, there are some errors.

Given the fact that you can't study Robbins in its entirety, BRS is all the info you will ever need. No review book is ever complete, thats why they are called review books and not text books. BRS is a concise review of pertinant information and if you know it cold you will do fine. I can't think of a single path question on my test that couldn't be answered out of FA or BRS, now behavioral science and biochem are a different story all together.

 

[Pox in a box]

I've got BRS, Kaplan notes and Goljan notes.
Any suggestions on what to focus more on??

Let's regroup: are you studying for the course or the Step 1?

 

[Apgae]

I read Robbins and added notes to kaplan to make it more complete. It was overkill, but helped a lot.