Microbiology made simple - edition 3 or 4?

[TheJiggler]

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Is there a difference between edition 3 (2004) and edition 4 (2007) for microbiology made ridiculously simple?

 

[Terpskins99]

Just get the '04 edition and save a few bucks.

 

[Law2Doc]

Is there a difference between edition 3 (2004) and edition 4 (2007) for microbiology made ridiculously simple?

I think there are probably a few new drugs and regimens in the newer addition. The bugs are probably all the same.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

MMRS, now there's a book everyone goes gah gah about but I can't see why. It's about 300+ pages of solid text for a one small subject on the boards. I give it my low yield stamp of disproval.

 

[Terpskins99]

MMRS, now there's a book everyone goes gah gah about but I can't see why. It's about 300+ pages of solid text for a one small subject on the boards. I give it my low yield stamp of disproval.

I'd hardly label micro and antibiotics as low yield on boards. My Step I was loaded with both. And you don't necessarily need to read the book cover to cover (though I would recommend it and I don't think its that difficult).

People like MMRS because it provides a nice change-of-pace read to a very dry fact-intensive topic. For a lot of people, micro is the medical school version of organic chemistry: a weak area that many students need to address more than others. The MMRS mnemonics, though silly, work quite well.

But hey. To each his own.

 

[Law2Doc]

I'd hardly label micro and antibiotics as low yield on boards. My Step I was loaded with both. And you don't necessarily need to read the book cover to cover (though I would recommend it and I don't think its that difficult).

People like MMRS because it provides a nice change-of-pace read to a very dry fact-intensive topic. For a lot of people, micro is the medical school version of organic chemistry: a weak area that many students need to address more than others. The MMRS mnemonics, though silly, work quite well.

But hey. To each his own.

I agree with this. If you know the bugs and drugs well, you are most of the way there. I guess the book isn't for everybody, but for a lot of folks, the comical mnemonics and cartoons from MMRS really stuck.

 

[AmoryBlaine]

MMRS, now there's a book everyone goes gah gah about but I can't see why. It's about 300+ pages of solid text for a one small subject on the boards. I give it my low yield stamp of disproval.

I essentially agree. You're far better off just trying to memorize the 6-8 pages in FA than trying to read CMMRS.

 

[chicamedica]

Actually i found that i needed to read both the first aid micro section and MMRS, because MMRS doesn't cover some of the things in FA. But I thought MMRS was great, I highly recommend it.

 

[RustedFox]

This is just one man's take on the subject, but I think that LANGE'S "Review of Micro" is just a better organized book. Sure, MMRS is cute and all - and it works for some people, but I just feel that it's not a well-written book. I'll sell my copy (MMRS, Edition 3) to anyone for a cool 20 bucks, and it's near-mint.

 

[Law2Doc]

I essentially agree. You're far better off just trying to memorize the 6-8 pages in FA than trying to read CMMRS.

For many, trying to memorize 8 pages of bullet points is far harder than reading a comical book and having it stick. Depends on the kind of brain you have. For a lot of us, FA was far less useful than other resources, although it admittedly was much more concise.