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| By: Thomas J. Kindt, Barbara A. Osborne, Richard A. Goldsby ISBN: 1429202114 Publisher: W. H. Freeman Release Date: 15 August, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 57447 | ||
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| By: Warren E. Levinson ISBN: 0071460314 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 10 March, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 99970 | I used this book for our infections & immunology block in medical school. I found it comprehensive enough to give me a good understanding of the subject, without going into too many details that I wouldn't have time to learn. It was an easy, almost effortless read. The fact that there is a certain amount of repetition (not enough to be bothersome, in my opinion) through the different chapters means that 1) I could understand a chapter without having read all the previous ones and 2) I memorized as I went, insead of spending hours doing it after reading. Generally, I found it to be very a very clear & efficient way to learn a subject that could otherwise have been a bit overwhelming. This book is an EXCELLENT review of Microbiology. Highly recommended for use with a Medical Microbiology course. For those who are sick of bullet-point powerpoint presentations and bulky books, finally a book that has all the stuff you NEED for the USMLE.. <br /> <br />I have tried the BRS, Lippinocott's and other's; this one is THE book to get. It is a great way to review the concepts in a concise and compact way. Plus it has great charts in it; these are great for the quick reference. | |
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| By: Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, Shiv Pillai ISBN: 1416031227 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 23 May, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 24014 | ||
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| By: Arthur G Johnson, Arthur G. Johnson ISBN: 0781727707 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 15 December, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 52856 | I was very disappointed with this BRS. I have collected most BRS's for MS-1s and have been impressed with the thorough but concise manner in which information is conveyed.
<br /> In contrast, micro is outdated, redundant, disorganized and generally not useful.
<br /> The one high point of this book is that the immuno section is good. It helped me greatly with our half semester immuno course. Otherwise I would have given it only 1 star.
<br /> Unfortunately, I cannot recommend a better resource.
<br /> This book has covers all the necessary topics, including immunology. But the best part is that it has a total of 416 questions!! This is a great source of practice questions for the USMLE. Still, it could use more pictures and diagrams. Just for the questions its worth the money. i just took the nbme shelf exam and i must say without reservation that this book was not very good. look to other review books if you want to study for the shelf or for the boards. | |
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| By: Geha, Rosen ISBN: 0815341458 Publisher: Other Release Date: 22 June, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 20866 | A great book for anyone interested in clinical immunology. When used in combination with Immunobiology, the concepts are clearly explained. The added bonus of the lab science behind the clinical work is wonderful. I would not recommend this book alone unless the reader has an extensive background in immunology and is interested strictly in clinical presentations of immunological defects in humans. The last reviewer's frustration is understandable given that this book is really meant for the medical student who has taken physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology in detail and has some clinical experience. It is most helpful for the senior medical student or resident taking an immunology elective--and even the immunologist studying for board exams! The reader must be already familiar with a lot of basic immunology in order to understand the figures without needing much explanation. I thought the book is excellent for synthesizing a very complex subject and adding clinical relevance. Guys, this book is very poorly organized and the previous reviewer either is bribed by the authors or he doesn't know what he's talking about. This, by far, is the WORST textbook I've seen in my 5 years of college career. Look I am not bitter and I am a good student with a 3.9 GPA.<p>I will back up my reasons why this book is bad. The illustrations do not come with legends or labels. Readers are suppoed to guess what the white circle, black squares, green circles stand for. Plus the authors only give a very sketchy introduction to the diseases and they don't explains anything well enough for you to understand the questions. The answers to the discussion questions do not make sense and most of the time not relevant to the questions at all.<p>If your instructor is requiring you to purchase this text, he/she is doing you a MAJOR disservice... ask the instructor to reconsider the adoptation of any casebook, otherwise drop the course. | |
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| By: Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman ISBN: 1416029745 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 01 February, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 26920 | I bought this book and read it for several times so far. the book is badly organized and very wordy. the illustrations are overdone. but the content seem right for med students.
<br /> I bought this book as a required text for my med school immunology block. My firs time using the book. I like the images and captions. I also like the fact that key terms are not only defined at the back of the book but a quick summary of how these terms apply within the text is given. What I dislike about the book is the fact that topics are not well organized; they're scattered all over the book. I only used it for reference and for the cartoons/images. This is an excellent immunology text that is recommended by a top 3 medical school. Many schools have this text and Janeway's text ranked equally and they use diagrams from both. | |
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| By: Arthur G Johnson ISBN: 0781774691 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 August, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 124019 | I bought this book as a review for USMLE step 1, and I started reading a friend's copy of levinson's review of medical microbiology and immunology. Not only is Levinson's the best resource for microbiology, but its immunology section is fantastic for both learning and review. I tried reading HY immunology afterwards and was only confused by it. It is poorly written and inconsistent, and not at all high yield--I wish I had not bought it. I guess there are some okay parts to HY immunology, but there are much better alternatives (Levinson's, How the Immune system works). I agree with one of the reader, the graphs have way too much details. They are not high yield at all. This book has some unnecessary details. For example, it has one big paragraph on different influenza vaccine strains from "advisory committtee on immunization practice, mmwr 2004:53 1-40." And it has select CD antigens on immune cells from CD1 all the way to CD 89 on two pages. <br /> <br />and some of the sentences are wordy and hard to understand, for example, on page 14, "monoclonal antibodies can also be constructed using the Fab domain from a murine antibody against a cancer-specific antigen with the mouse Fc domain removed and displaced by any number of different toxins." And the entire paragraph is one long sentence! Whoever taught the authors English obviously did not do a good job. So sometimes I have to read several times just understand them. <br /> <br />It does have some good information especially the last few chapters, but you can't possibly remember everything in the book, it has too many details. <br /> <br />I disagree with reader "apotosis", he rated 5 for the road map immunology, that book is worse than this book. That book has way too many information, if you want to get a phd on this subject that book is for you. This book is poorly written - because of long sentences, it's extremely difficult to read and understand; don't think that that's because it deals with difficult topics - content is extremely basic (in the worst meaning of this word) and many intricacies of this beautiful subject are completely ignored; many very high yield topics for USMLE step 1 aren't even mentioned; writing style is boring and inimaginative as well; this books is also poorly illustrated - immunology is a subject which is difficult to understand without pictures; at the same time, 'High-Yield Immunology' is extremely expensive for the number of pages and for the amount of information presented. <br />There are many much better reviews of immunology - try, for example, new 'USMLE Road Map: Immunology', by Parmley, with numerous well-done and useful illustrations - you'll be amazed how this author has managed to put all heavily board-tested immunology topics in just 224 pages (MCQs and index included - by the way, both these helpful features are missing in 'High-Yield Immunology'); what's more - all difficult topics are explained in a logical, clear, and uncluttered way - so different from 'High-Yield Immunology'! also, 'USMLE Road Map: Immunology' is even cheaper - by $2 - than good for nothing 'High-Yield Immunology'. <br />Otherwise, if you need more in-depth review, get Abbas' excellent 'Basic Immunology' - this little (336 pages) textbook is also packed with useful information and nice full-color illustrations, but it's much more expensive - $59.95. | |
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| By: Thao Doan, Roger Melvold, Susan Viselli, Carl Waltenbaugh ISBN: 0781795435 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 July, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 71627 | Well written and with concise diagrams. Does a nice job of covering the pertinent material without going into so much detail you lose the forest for the trees. I'd have given it 5 stars if there were a comprehensive test at the end, but even as-is I'd buy it again. I ordered this book as soon as i heard about it, i really needed a good immunology book since our doctor didn't explain it well. It is a great book with nice diagrams and loads of questions at the end of each chapter. <br />This book made immunology much easier for me, i strongly recommend it for any med. student. | |
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| By: Ken S. Rosenthal, James S. Tan ISBN: 0323044263 Publisher: Mosby Release Date: 15 November, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 44182 | I did not find this book too helpful... especially since I've never taken Immunology before. I ended up purchasing the Kuby Immunology textbook which is much better (also more costly).
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<br />This may be a good book for someone who is looking for a book to review concepts before Board exams. But even then... I'd probably prefer BRS or First Aid to this book. This is a fairly well-written review of micro for the Boards. However, this would not be my first choice for studying micro- I would recommend instead to use Micro Made Ridiculously Simple and the Kaplan microbiology. <br />One of the good features in this book that I like in comparison to the BRS is the onine questions which sevre well for a quick kill review. | |
| By: Mary Louise Turgeon ISBN: 0323023711 Publisher: Mosby Release Date: 01 March, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 400543 | I have been a medical technologist for 16 years and have taught immunology for 12 years in the classroom and clincial setting. This book is poorly organized and not relevant to the normal clinical lab. New terms for a med tech student are used in the first chapter and then defined in later chapters. There is an entire section on RID which only high volume reference labs use and is no longer recommended by ASCP to be covered in med tech schools. The lack of newer illustrations and photographs, and boring layouts of tables and charts is also a negative. I have actually given our students websites to refer to instead of sections in this book to complete their objectives.<br>Signed MDM, MT(ASCP) SI This book along with others by the author are extremely complex and confusing to a student who does not have a working knowledge of this subject. It is as if she went through the dictonary to see how hard of words she could use to make herself look "super dooper" smart. You would have to be a medical student to even get the gist of what she is saying. This book's lack of color and understandable diagrams makes it even harder to follow. I would not recommend this book to anyone but PhDs, MDs, and someone who enjoys being utterly confused. This book is complex. Any normal student would be completely overwhealmed by this book geared more towards Medical School students rather than traditional college students. The language is too technical and the photos are laughable. There are no colorful pictures for those of us who like to be able to actually see what we are learning, there is no clear cut explaination of any of the suggested topic, and all in color green and the suggested photograph on page 199. Other than subtle hints of green, this black and white "textbook" is utterly and completely boring! | |
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