Books

Hi everyone,

Happy 2019!

Today I wanted to post about books.

For surgical pathology, my top 4 recs

Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology series
AFIP fascicles (Atlas of Tumor Pathology)
WHO Classification
AJCC 8th edition

It may be worth going on WorldCat or requesting via interlibrary loan if one wishes to read the physical copy. However, I don't think it is worth buying immediately as the copies are updated every few years and it is worth waiting until residency to buy and only when you need to (buying WHO when starting hemepath rotation, for example).

I was actually quite surprised to find that the library at my medical school had a few physical copies of the Foundations series in addition to the big DeMay cytology textbooks (also recommend). I think there is a smaller, condensed version (Breviary in Cytopathology).

I do feel it is good to get information from different sources, as pathology changes constantly. Staying up to date is a difficult, but necessary task.

It is very interesting as there are a few entities in pathology in which the name has changed recently to be more PC (politically correct) or less confusing and if you talk to a pathologist who has been around a while, they use the names interchangably or just the 'old' name. From the perspective of a young person entering pathology, I think it is better to use the 'new' name, to minimize confusion, however. It also shows that you are keeping up to date with new trends and developments.

What books do you recommend?

P.S. I hear books by Cambridge (publisher) for pathology are good, but can't get my hands on any copies.