Product Description

In pathology education within North America, there exists a wide gap in the pedagogy between medical school and residency. Unlike other medical disciplines, in which the skills of history-taking, physical examination, and assessment are nurtured from the first year of medical school, the practice of pathology bears little resemblance to the visual gallery of pattern recognition that is second-year medical school pathology. Few medical schools have required clinical rotations in pathology, and many electives remain limited in scope and participation. The pathology intern often comes into residency painfully unprepared.

The Practice of Surgical Pathology: A Beginner’s Guide to the Diagnostic Process lays the foundation of practical pathology and provides a scaffold on which to build a knowledge base. It includes basic introductory material and progresses through each organ system. Within each chapter, there is a brief review of salient normal histology, a discussion of typical specimen types, a strategic approach to the specimen with a list of what to look for, and a discussion of how the multitude of different diagnoses relate to each other.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58268 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 330 pages

Review

From the reviews:

"This book is designed to bridge the gap between medical school pathology and residency-level pathology … . is aimed at pathology residents in the early stages of the first year, and the author has done a great job of tailoring it to this audience. … will have great value to an incoming first year resident. … It provides a very clear orientation to pathology of the various organs, orients readers to the microscope and descriptive terms, and gives a primer on immunostains." (Jonathan Carnell, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2008)

Customer Reviews

Starting pathology residency? This is for you.
Excellent book. A must have for first year pathology residents! If you're buried under large textbooks and don't know where to go, buy this book. The chapters are concise and easy to read. The pictures are clear with arrows and circles highlighting the important cells/areas.

The best book for pathology residents!
This is the most high-yield, readable book available for path residents. i recently finished my residency in California and this book would've made a huge difference in my education. It is organized by organ system (29 chapters) and has 15-18 excellent high-quality photomicrographs in ea chapter. Has over 30 photos in skin and bone/soft tissue chapters. Most photos also include labels so you know what you're looking at!

It includes an outstanding chapter on the placenta (the best overview i have ever read). Also a ch. on how to sign-out "Ditzels" those small benign specimens that beginners can get hung up on, like cholesteatomas. Also includes lymph node and bone marrow chapters.

It contains a lot of good foundation and pearls of information that will make your sign-out sessions 10x more effective for learning.

It acknowledges a lot of the quirky nomenclature issues and makes them clearly understandable. For ex., non-invasive urothelial vs invasive urothelial carcinomas vs carcinoma in-situ. The author(s) also spend time clarifying confusing neuroendocrine issues/terminology, like PNETs and lung vs GI vs pancreatic sign-outs.

It answers a ton of questions that i thought confusing, but seemed too trivial or stupid to ask.

The only thing missing is a chapter on thymomas. Otherwise, this book is perfect for residents!

Very useful
I'm in second year of my pathology residence and this book is very useful for me. It was written in the same style, as books of "...for dummies" series - simple, but not primitive and very informative.
All illustrations are of very good quality (unlike Robbins and Cotran's) and, what is very important for novice - all have arrows, arrowheads and other indicators of "where to look".
Of course, this book is NOT enough to pass exams or to work as pathologist, but it is very book for beginnersnin pathology