I did flip through the book and liked how everything was put into a table, which prompted me to make my own notes with tables as well.ДЇirst Aid for the USMLE. I personally didn't ever use those lecture notes, nor did I hear anything outstanding about them. Some people used the Kaplan lecture notes for Microbiology. Those are fantastic and I kind of wanted to rip those pages out to add to my First Aid but that hasn't happened (nor can it happen) because my First Aid is already too thick. It's a pretty good book, but you know what's even better? The summary and questions and clinical pearls at the end. Legitimately the only textbook I used when it came to microbiology, and only because it was required reading for the course. Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. Let's get started with some general resources that I used. What I can do, however, is walk you through the methods I used because I ended up making a specific set of notes that took me the entire year to properly craft.

I only used one textbook and had First Aid with me. Unfortunately, there aren't as many resources that I can recommend as there were in the previous posts. Isn't that what med school, in it's entirety, is all about? Fortunately, I am here to try to ease your fears.

I'm also here to tell you that it's okay! It's perfectly fine to feel a little out of your depth. I may have gotten the microbes down, but the viruses still scare me quite a bit with their double strands and single strands and reverse transcriptases and shifts and drifts and yeah, I think you've got the idea.

What is sketchy micro