Dr_Indahouse
Posted January 10, 2010
I have "Big Robbins" 7th ed and really thought it was excessive for a 2nd-yr medical student - yes, even to honor the course. This edition (8th) of "baby robbins" is excellent. It hits virtually all the topics covered in lecture, save for a handful that are covered well enough in class (at our school, anyways) or in Big Robbins (which you can just look up as a reference in the library). The order of topics within a chapter might not always coincide with lecture order (although they usually do), but hey, we're in med. school, so that's a part of our lives we must accept. Pictures/images are superb, but by no measure comprehensive, so I wouldn't rely solely on these images if your school includes "lab" images in your test(s). It is extremely well-written as pertains ease of comprehension, whereas Big Robbins just seems to talk around the topic before it gets to the point. Therefore, if your med path course recommends the Robbins line of texts, I say stick with baby robbins (assuming you are actually going to read it and not just use it as a reference). In summary, READ baby robbins, but if needed use Big Robbins as reference.
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More About This Textbook
Overview
Robbins Basic Pathology delivers the pathology knowledge you need, the way you need it, from the name you can trust! This medical textbook’s unbeatable author team helps you efficiently master the core concepts you need to know for your courses and USMLE exams.
• Get a rich understanding of all essential pathology concepts with expert guidance from an all-star editorial team.
• Grasp the connections between basic science and clinical medicine with clinicopathologic correlations throughout.
• Access information anywhere - from the coffee shop to the classroom - with full-text online access at studentconsult.com.
• Take your learning farther with targeted therapy boxes, clinical cases, virtual microscope slides, and self-assessment questions online!
• Learn core concepts quickly and efficiently with a highly templated design that highlights pathogenesis and morphology.
• New interior design with a more modern look
• Artwork revised and updated for a more modern look and more three-dimensional feel
• Targeted Therapy boxes included in online text - provides clinical information on appropriate therapy related to the disease under discussion
• All photomicrographs and gross photos reviewed and improved to ensure excellent quality
A trusted title in the world of pathology, Robbins offers easy-to-access information that’s concise and accurate
Editorial Reviews
From The Critics
Reviewer: Carmen Winters, BS(University of Kansas Medical Center)Description: This is the ninth edition of a thorough yet concise overview of pathology, organized by organ system, which also includes chapters on general pathology.
Purpose: As a pared down version of the larger textbook, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 8th edition, Kumar et al. (Elsevier, 2009), it targets the modern medical student who may not have the luxury of time to read such a large book.
Audience: This will be a very useful resource to its audience of medical students, because it focuses on more common and high-yield pathology, without dumbing down the material.
Features: The book first covers topics of general pathology, such as cell injury, inflammation, and neoplasia. These are topics that the main textbook does so uniquely well, and this book also does an excellent job. Next are chapters on the pathology of specific organ systems. These chapters omit many of the rare entities and devote the bulk of the text to those that medical students are most likely to encounter. There are plenty of high-quality color illustrations, including photomicrographs, gross photos, and a variety of charts. Chapters are also broken up by subtopics into colored boxes, which is very appealing to overwhelmed readers.
Assessment: This excellent book is ideal for medical students to read cover-to-cover. Although the main textbook is an unbeatable resource, its size makes it unrealistic that medicals students could completely digest it. This version strikes a good balance, still providing students with an in-depth discussion of disease process, but avoiding an overwhelming list of entities.
From the Publisher
"The book maximises on presentation by using clear headings and sub headings, good quality colour plates, diagrams and tables. In common with many other Elsevier books, it's attractively presented. The authors are keen for the reader to learn about the advances in the field and have included details of these breakthroughs. The pathology textbook I bought as a student was just under half the price of this one and was left mostly on the shelf being largely unreadable with monochrome only illustrations and no extra features. That makes this book good value for money I would say!" Dr. Sager, Univadis, December 2008, Review from the 8th EditionProduct Details
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Table of Contents
1 Cell Injury, Death and Adaptation
2 Inflammation and Repair
3 Hemodynamic Disorders, Thromboembolism, and Shock
4 Diseases of the Immune System
5 Neoplasia
6 Genetic and Pediatric Diseases
7 Environmental and Nutritional Diseases
8 General Pathology of Infectious Diseases
9 Blood Vessels
10 Heart
11 Hematopoietic and Lymphoid System
12 Lung
13 Kidney and Its Collecting System
14 Oral Cavity and Gastrointestinal Tract
15 Liver, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tract
16 Pancreas
17 Male Genital System and Lower Urinary Tract
18 Female Genital System and Breast
19 Endocrine System
20 Bones, Joints and Soft Tissue Tumors
21 Peripheral Nerves and Muscle
22 Central Nervous System
23 Skin