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Summary: New Edition comes out Dec 2001
Review: An excellent review but first edition is a bit out-dated. I hear the new 2nd edition will be out in Dec 2001, so if you need it for the Boards, wait for the new one! (UPDATE: new edition is now available from the publisher 12/11/01).
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Summary: board review seres : pathology
Review: excellent book for usmle step-1.I just pass usmle step-1 comfortably n found this book very useful n productive
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Summary: This book is my Bible!!!
Review: I did not use any other study materials for the USMLE except this little red book. Everything in this book was relevant and anything not in the book, you probably do not want to know. Schneider and Szanto are preaching from the mountaintop and I am listening.
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Summary: Get this and start using it the first day of Path!
Review: I would highly recommend you get this and use it for your path course-take notes in it, if you'd like. Then when it's time to study for the boards, you're familiar with it (probably have most of it memorized by then)! You'll be glad you did. It helped me ace Path (and no, I'm not a "star student") and it covers Pathology for boards as well
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Summary: A must for USMLE Step I
Review: I'd say that this book, QBank, and First Aid by Bhushan et al. are MUSTS for Step I. This is also helpful for coursework. If you're wanting a relatively comprehensive BRS book that goes by organ system, this is the book for you. I have found very few episodes where more info was required, and the overall format is very consistent. Great index, great breakdown, great questions at the end. Not perfect, but there was no 4.5 star. Buy it!
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Summary: A must for USMLE Step I
Review: I'd say that this book, QBank, and First Aid by Bhushan et al. are MUSTS for Step I. This is also helpful for coursework. If you're wanting a relatively comprehensive BRS book that goes by organ system, this is the book for you. I have found very few episodes where more info was required, and the overall format is very consistent. Great index, great breakdown, great questions at the end. Not perfect, but there was no 4.5 star. Buy it!
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Summary: OK if you just want to pass
Review: If you want to crush the competition on the boards then you need a more thorough text to study from. I reccomend Big Robbins or Concise Pathology (as a distant second). I memorized both of those and destroyed the boards. If you are only interested in going to Internal Med of Family or Peds, then the BRS is fine for you. But if you are a more Type A person who craves the harder residencies which require the highest level of cognitive ability such as Derm, Ortho, Radiology, and Plastics, then you better get a more rigorous book. Remember the goal is to crush the competition and you can't do it if you are reading the same books they are. I memorized Big Robbins and broke 255! You can too!
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Summary: good but just for review
Review: In my opinion it's not that good book for usmle since it doesn't give you neither enough pathology knowlege nor enough pathophysiology knowlege.However if you know pathology good, you can review it by this book quickly.
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Summary: Good book
Review: It's a very good book, but some of readers (especially who wants to "Ace") will need more info . Excellent if suplemented with Goljat or Robbins. (Textbook/Qbook)
It takws time to read it, so it must be started earlier in order to provide best results.
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Summary: A great review text; very complete.
Review: Like other review texts in this series, the pathology review is authored in a language and style which is easy for the medical student, resident, or physician to follow, covering the basics of pathology while extending its subject matter into areas and diseases often neglected by textbooks and reviews. As an academic subject and a clinical science, pathology is often a bane to medical students and others who must study it as part of their formal biomedical education, and books such as this one offer a good starting point for diving into this vast subject. As pathology covers a variety of systems and organs as well as variety of diseases, the information in any pathology text must be complete yet concise and easy to find as a reference. The information presented in this review also includes very recent research findings, something that is more often than not missing from many pathology textbooks, even when they are of a recent edition. Most of all, this review is exactly that: a review of importent pathological information, and it presents this information in a manner that is as concise as possible given the amount of ground it has to cover within its pages. The visual layout and design of this text is also quite interesting and effective, an aspect of publishing that too many medical texts neglect.
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