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| By: Eric Chen, Sanjay Kasturi ISBN: 0071468668 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 18 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 299047 | This book was by far the best micro review I had for boards! It gave me all the information I needed without meaningless minutia and was VERY high-yield for boards. I used it for my micro class during the year and it really helped, especially with group studying. The question-answer format is a great way to test yourself before exams and I found it to be a comprehensive review before I took boards. I recommend it to every med student looking for a thorough review for micro. | |
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| By: Helen Chapel, Mansel Haeney, Siraj Misbah, Neil Snowden ISBN: 1405127619 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Release Date: 16 June, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 457901 | I bought this book wanting to study undergraduate immunology before I took the upcoming class. This book, however, is definitely not for beginners. It assumes you know certain terminology going into it. Regularly, you will stumble upon bold words like "low-affinity Fc(gamma)RIII receptors" with little explanation. There is a great deal of knowledge in this book. If you have your basic background, then I would recommend this book. During/After the class, I expect this book to be more helpful. | |
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| By: Michael J Parmely ISBN: 0071452982 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 22 March, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 570786 | Pharmacology is tested more often on step 1 than immunology, however, the same book "road map pharmacology" actually has less pages than this book. This book definitely has too much information. Maybe it is good for the actual class, it is certainly not a good book for step 1 review.
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<br />I was going to rate it a 3. "apoptosis" rated it a 5, therefore, I had to rate this book a 2. I also have read the high yield immunology. At least that book is managable, you will go crazy if you want to study this book. It has listed some diseases which are not even mentioned on the brs pathology book, for example, do you know about the Job's symdrome or "systemic inflammatory response syndrome," selective IGG2 deficiency, selective IGA deficiency, etc. It has way too much detailed information. I bet, not even the author himself can remember everything he wrote in that book.
<br /> Perfect for the KUMC Immunology course, a must have for any medical student I guess I have to write a new review on this book, as my answer to Preppy Jock. <br />First of all, I'd say, that too much info is always better than not enough, especially, if someone has managed to put all this info in a concise and readable way. <br />Comparing different books from the same series only by their page numbers isn't the very helpful method to judge about their quality - these books may be at the different level of reviewing - what is "Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology" or "Katzung and Trevor's Review of Pharmacology" (NOT "USMLE Road Map: Pharmacology"!) for pharmacology, the same is "USMLE Road Map: Immunology" for immunology - read my amazon review about "USMLE Road Map: Pharmacology", 2nd ed. and you'll understand what do I mean. <br />224 pages long review of immunology couldn't "make you crazy, because it's too detailed" - your only complaint is that you can find all the aspects of immunology in this tiny book, but this just means that the author has done an excellent job - you'll be able to answer every question about immunology on your step 1 exam, even the most difficult one! <br />Also, who said that "BRS Pathology" is the standard for the USMLE step 1 and only those diseases, which are mentioned in that book will be tested on the actual exam? <br />You may feel more comfortable reading "High-Yield Immunology" - that book is oversimplified and so, you'll be reading mostly the stuff you already know - you wouldn't need much effort, but I guess, this wouldn't make your performance on the USMLE step 1 better. | |
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| By: Abul K. Abbas, Andrew Lichtman ISBN: 1416023895 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 25 February, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 425886 | Immunology is not an easy concept to digest at first, but luckily this book explains the difficult topics quite well. With any subject that deals with explaining molecular processes, both the descriptions and diagrams take great importance and I feel that this book for the most part addresses both very efficiently. Few books are illustrated this well, and while the book suffers from the absence of a glossary, it is incredibly well written, with sufficient detail that you are sure you are getting the full story. <br /> <br />The author is not targeting me (a dilettante if ever there was one) but I find I can make my way through 99% of the book without questions or issues, and what I need help with I can find on the internet or by asking doctor friends. <br /> <br />If you are truly interested in how the immune system works, in some detail, this is a wonderful book. For the advanced reader, I like Janeway's text better because of the depth of information presented, but for an introductory class, Abbas is more accessable and understandable in the introductory chapters. I recommend using them in tandem, I do! The figures are good, but interestingly enough, the illustrations in all the major texts on immunology are largely the same! If you need a CD with illustrations (you are an instructor or want to use them for a presentation etc) I recommend the CD accompanying Peter Parham's text book. | |
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| By: Peter Lydyard ISBN: 1859960391 Publisher: BIOS Scientific Publ Release Date: 12 March, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 483799 | People often make the mistake of hitting the bigger books with the hope that they will gain a more complete understanding of a subject. However the problem with such an approach (particularly when beginning a subject) is that more often than not, one loses sight of the key concepts and broad principles. This where i feel this book is a gem. The strength of this book is that each chapter succinctly provides you with all the main points you need to know about each subtopic. In this way you are given a solid basis and contextual understanding, enabling you to gain a deeper appreciation of immunology from larger texts. <br />At the start of each immunol topic in your course, read the corresponding chapter in this book first, then use your lecture notes or larger texts to fill the gaps/details. <br /> <br />This happens to be one of a very few review books i've kept in my extensive library. <br /> <br />Dr A.M. <br /> <br /> | |
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| By: Christine Dorresteyn Stevens ISBN: 0803610955 Publisher: F. A. Davis Company Release Date: June, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 139252 | The book is good in that it explains certain basic immunological techniques quite well in a descriptive sense (at least at the molecular leve), however graphically many things are left to be desired. Many topics like explaining detailed immunofluorescent or protein immunology, etc are woefully inadequate for any practical use. The first third of the book explaining immunological processes is hopeless and best left to a dedicated immunology textbook like Janeway or Abbas. This book couldn't decide what it wanted to be. There were sections that were very detailed and not clearly explained. On the other hand, there were sections that were lacking significant explanation and contained so little detail that it was impossible to understand. <br /> <br />Also, if I had to read 'close proximity' one more time, I would have screamed. Someone should explain to the author AND THE EDITOR that this is redundant. I circled those words MULTIPLE times. Reading such a poorly written book made me wonder what else was poorly described and possible incorrect. | |
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| By: Jacqueline Stanley ISBN: 076681064X Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning Release Date: 06 March, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 641310 | ||
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| By: Kaplan Medical ISBN: B0012LZDBC Publisher: Release Date: 2006 Bioscience book rank: 285657 | ||
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| By: Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman ISBN: 1416046887 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 20 February, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 338756 | ||
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| By: Fred Rosen ISBN: 0815341024 Publisher: Garland Science Release Date: 09 April, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 345364 | The book is full of high yield tables and figures. I think is useful for the USMLE but only after reading another source like Medical Microbiology and Immunology Examination and Board Review or from Kaplan. It also has many interesting questions at the end of each case. Is a very well organized text; don't think that you're going to see only cases and questions, NOT it begins each case with the basic concepts in that topic, then the case, and detail explanations of the disease, and some questions. If you don't have the time to read the complete text, I think that you can do very well just with the tables and Figures(full color), it contains some MRIs, CT, x-rays, and electron microscopies. Most of the cases are about the most high yield diseases (immunologic diseases) found in the USMLE and some are about diseases that you may have never heard but that may be tested as gene knock-outs or mutations cases. Is useful for USMLE Step 1,2 and 3 since it gives you basic concepts, pathogenesis and explanations about treatment. These case studies helped me grasp the esoteric ideas of immunology. I would recommend this book to other medical students. It is succinct and to the point. | |
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