Rapid Review Pathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 4e Author: Amazon Prime | Language: English | ISBN:
0323087876 | Format: EPUB
Rapid Review Pathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 4e Description
Get the most from your study time...and experience a realistic USMLE simulation! Rapid Review Pathology, by Edward F. Goljan, MD, makes it easy for you to master all of the pathology material covered on the USMLE Step 1. It combines an updated outline-format review of key concepts and hundreds of full-color images and margin notes, PLUS more than 400USMLE-style online questions! Get all the practice you need to succeed on the USMLE!
- Review all the information you need to know quickly and easily
with a user-friendly, two-color outline format that includes High-Yield Margin Notes and Key Points.- Practice for the USMLE with the included access to online USMLE sample questions and full rationales.
- Profit from the guidance of Dr. Edward Goljan, a well-known author of medical review books, who reviewed and edited every question.
- Visualize key pathologic concepts and conditions
with over 1,000 full-color images, completely reviewed and updated for this new edition.- Take a timed or practice USMLE™ test, access rationales for why each answer is right or wrong, and link to other Rapid Review books you have purchased online atwww.StudentConsult.com.
- Series: Rapid Review
- Paperback: 784 pages
- Publisher: Saunders; 4 edition (June 21, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0323087876
- ISBN-13: 978-0323087872
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Update 11/16/2013: Errata is available online.
Update: The Qbank is now available online.
I had the previous edition of this book and there were many sections where the explanation was not clear enough. Upon google searching, I discovered others were posting questions about the same passages on forums and asking for its clarification. This edition has resolved the ones I checked.
As others have stated, the pages total have increased and so has the number of images. Online you have access to the book as well and can download all the images of the book in one zip file. This book is almost perfect, except some minor mistakes with incorrect referencing of images and tables as if they weren't updated etc (I found 2 in the respo chapter so far). Also binding is a bit weak and it's cracking a bit from the inside, but that could be because I am using it so much.
Pro:
Numbers of pages increased.
More explanations/clarifications than before.
Online access to book (searchable), images, qbank, and errata.
Con:
A few minor typos.
Conclusion: This edition is a MUST, even if you had a previous one.
By S. Ashraf
I have both the 3rd edition revised reprint and the 4th edition so this review it's mainly intended to highlight the differences between the two.
They're both excellent books and if you've ever read Goljan, you know what to expect. As for the differences:
1. The book is longer. By about ~150-200 pages. That may not be a good thing depending on the type of person you are and the review of pathology you want. But I find it a bit more comprehensive in explaining concepts.
What is in the additional pages? Most of the addition from what I can tell and according to Goljan's acknowledgments in the cover is "more high-yeild information and photographs than in previous editions." The pictures you'll notice right off the bat. There are several pictures in all corners better displaying things I had to google or reference in the past. Not really a game changer, but it makes the book feel more complete.
2. Most notable, the little blurbs he has an the sides that summarize high-yeild concepts have been increased by 1.5-2x fold. It's really good if you're like myself and go back to review those concepts to make sure you got what you wanted from chapter (and your professors in year 1 tested from those blurbs). But at the same time, they become too cluttered and in a way, they subtract rather than add.
Would I recommend an upgrade? Up to your style really. I own Harrison's and read that to reference things. I prefer a more dense and complete book so I really like the changes in 4th edition of this book. If you prefer shorter reviews and limited in time, maybe the 3rd is better for you? But then again, you'd be missing out on the pictures that highlight some of the pathology.
The only thing I'm sad about was that I had taken notes from watching relevant Pathoma videos during first year into Goljan's 3rd edition. But I was planning to rewatch the videos anyhow, so it's another way to review the material.
By Vin
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