Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Color Edition 9th Edition

If you are taking these classes you already know there is a ton of material, especially for the micro parts. This book has a ton of pictures, tables, and such to help you remember the stuff. This helped me a lot during my MLS courses.

This book helped me pass my ASCP exam, would recommend it to everyone taking the Micro test! Really helped narrowing down the information that I needed to know.

This is an excellent book. I would highly recommend it to students studying microbiology

Easy to read and understand

I feel like a nerd because I actually enjoy reading this clinical microbiology book! Not only does this book offer valuable and updated information, but it’s also fun to read with all these hilarious tricks to help with my aging memory. I wish we had this book back in the days of med school.

This text lays out the information you need to know about microbes in a very easy to read manner. I find myself enjoying reading and learning from the images designed to help recall. It has been helpful to use in addition to assigned lectures, and find myself first reading the appropriate material in this text prior to studying the lecture slides. It makes my studies 100% easier and I feel like I am retaining the information better as a result. I'm glad I found this text prior to boards. I'm sure it will be a text I will continue to cite in the future.

Clinical Microbiology made ridiculously simple is a great book in terms of content. It offers simple, concise, and easy ways to remember material. Most importantly, it tells you the WHY behind the things you are studying, which some review books do not do very well. I also found the pictures and diagrams helpful. My only criticism of this book, and it is what causes me to give it three stars, is that actually physical text has VERY weak binding. My copy fell apart after just a week of using it for my basic sciences class in medical school and I am always very careful with my books in general. I was very disappointed.

I used this during micro. It is ridiculous, but I will say that you will never forget "measles brand paint" (measles rash) or "gang of cycles knocking off the blood cells" (ganciclovir myelosuppression) months after reading this book.I studied plant pathology and microbiology as an undergrad however that gave me very little advantage in microbiology. In my opinion, microbiology is very abstract for most medical students since it is not feasible to teach medical students basic science microbiology and in all honesty its not relevant unless your going into ID. However, this book will teach you the most highly tested topics in a very memorable way.However, if you don't have a sense of humor and are the kind of person that likes reading Boron physiology over Costanzo physiology... this probably isn't for you.