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Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Color Edition
NEW COLOR EDITION!!!
Excellent for USMLE Board Review!
A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable updated approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from Ebola to AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria; to mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, Clostridium difficile diagnosis and treatment; treatment of gonorrhea in light of growing antimicrobial resistance; Tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs for treatment of latent TB infection and MDR TB; the latest antibiotics; pandemic flu, including H7N9; SARS-like coronavirus; the latest hepatitis C treatment options; the latest HIV diagnostics and approved HIV meds; Zika virus; Measles and a new chapter on the latest emerging infectious diseases and drug resistant bacteria.
* What makes this world renowned, best-selling Microbiology book so unique?
Our Approach has been
Write in a conversational style for easy, rapid assimilationInclude numerous, humorous illustrations only when absolutely necessary, serving as "visual memory tools" and summary charts at the end of each chapter. These can be used for "cram sessions" after the concepts have been studied in the textConcentrate more on clinical and infectious disease issues that are both interesting and vital to the actual practice of medicineCreate a conceptual, organized approach to the organisms studied so the student relies less on memory and more on logical pathophysiology.
This last point is CRUCIAL!!! If there were no tests that required memorization in medical school, SKETCHY , memory-based medical study tools would be obsolete as they are ENTIRELY based on memorization, NOT understanding. This leads to a real life When you need to conceptually and logically understand a patient's illness and speak to this patient or their family, a cute little SKETCHY memory trick will not get you very far.
Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple trains you early on in your medical career how to THINK, not how to memorize like SKETCHY does!
Companion Digital Download of Atlas of Microbiology program (Win/Mac) found on www.medmaster.net
Excellent for USMLE Board Review!
A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable updated approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from Ebola to AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria; to mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, Clostridium difficile diagnosis and treatment; treatment of gonorrhea in light of growing antimicrobial resistance; Tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs for treatment of latent TB infection and MDR TB; the latest antibiotics; pandemic flu, including H7N9; SARS-like coronavirus; the latest hepatitis C treatment options; the latest HIV diagnostics and approved HIV meds; Zika virus; Measles and a new chapter on the latest emerging infectious diseases and drug resistant bacteria.
* What makes this world renowned, best-selling Microbiology book so unique?
Our Approach has been
Write in a conversational style for easy, rapid assimilationInclude numerous, humorous illustrations only when absolutely necessary, serving as "visual memory tools" and summary charts at the end of each chapter. These can be used for "cram sessions" after the concepts have been studied in the textConcentrate more on clinical and infectious disease issues that are both interesting and vital to the actual practice of medicineCreate a conceptual, organized approach to the organisms studied so the student relies less on memory and more on logical pathophysiology.
This last point is CRUCIAL!!! If there were no tests that required memorization in medical school, SKETCHY , memory-based medical study tools would be obsolete as they are ENTIRELY based on memorization, NOT understanding. This leads to a real life When you need to conceptually and logically understand a patient's illness and speak to this patient or their family, a cute little SKETCHY memory trick will not get you very far.
Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple trains you early on in your medical career how to THINK, not how to memorize like SKETCHY does!
Companion Digital Download of Atlas of Microbiology program (Win/Mac) found on www.medmaster.net
448 pages, Paperback
Published September 14, 2022
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December 27, 2025
Not only was it a fun and engaging read, my approach to microbiology has completely changed. As a general medical student, it was probably way more in depth than I needed but finally a source where things are explained comprehensively, with analogies AND memory aids. This will stay on my shelf forever!
November 15, 2022
Wasn't that hard to understand, gave me a good understanding of the subject
Helpful for a college-level microbiology course, especially coming from a high school student.
Helpful for a college-level microbiology course, especially coming from a high school student.
June 19, 2026
THE BEST MICROBIO BOOK EVER
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