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Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple

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This book was initially recommended to me in my first year of medical school for the microbiology section. I have to say that hands down it is the best book I have used in Medical School. It is simple enough for a first timer to infectious diseases to understand yet at the same time gives enough information that has been useful up until now in my 4th year of medical school. It uses ridiculous analogies that somehow manage to stick in your head a number of years later. It gives you a good grasp of what antibiotics cover what kind of organisms in a way that I have yet to see in other books. Being that it's so easy to understand it sparks interest in infectious diseases because the student gets such a grasp of the subject it becomes fun. Using this book properly will also impress attendings with knowledge of the key facts of which antibiotics to use and key facts of different infectious diseases. it also groups them nicely making it easy to compartmentalize in the mind for easy recall. Aside from first year, I re-read it before the USMLE step 1, an infectious diseases elective and am constantly referencing it. A must buy!

This book is a DELIGHT! Seriously one of the best books I have ever read. The relatively complex subject is so well explained & illustrated that with one single reading, you basically retain almost all of the information, for a really long time! What's more, it's so much fun to read (and I'm not usually a microbiology fan!) that you can just read on for hours without needing a break. It explains most of what we were thought in med school microbio classes so that anyone could understand it. The illustrations, mnemonics & jokes add to the fun (yes, fun!). If you're looking for something very in depth, this is probably not it. However, if you want to know all of the basics & remember them forever, by all means, get this book! The impact it can have on anxiety & feelings of overwhelmingness is amazing.

Now if only they could make similar books for all we need to learn in med school... that would be the life!