The main objective of this book is to introduce to the undergraduate students the subject of microbiology in a simplified manner in the form of questions and answers.
The new CBME curriculum brings with it a finely structured method of learning both theory and practical aspects of microbiology. Also, the upcoming pattern of evaluation is another overwhelming change that a student must gear up for NEXT. Keeping these two new developments in mind, the questions are framed using the competencies enumerated in the subject curriculum, and the answers are written in a structured format using bulleted points to ease learning, understanding and memorizing. Salient Features Questions and MCQs are prepared as per CBME guidelines Contents have been written structurally and arranged as per the CBME competencies Includes traditional unstructured long essays, modified structured long essays, case-based questions, short essays, short answers, MCQs of various types and one-mark questions in the form of `fill in the blanks` Answers have been adequately supported with numerous diagrams, flowcharts and tables 92 Long Essays • 221 Short Essays • 216 Short Answers • 355 MCQs
Pooja Rao MD is currently Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru, Karnataka. She is an infection control officer of a 500-bed tertiary care hospital, KMC Hospital, and member of the hospital infection control committee. She is also the Deputy Quality Manager at State Reference Laboratory (SRL), NACO. She has won the best young scientist award from MAHE in 2018 and best publication award by Manipal-McGill in 2019. Sevitha Bhat MD is currently Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru, Karnataka. She has 14 years of teaching experience in clinical microbiology. She has to her credit over 30 papers published in national and international journals. Avinash G MSc (medical microbiology) is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Narayana Medical College,Nellore,Andhra Pradesh.He has over 13 years of teaching experience and is an active educator for NEET PG, NEET MDS and NEET UG (zoology). He has completed his training in NABL (ISO 15189:2012) and Certificate Course in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Methodology from Prasanna School of Public Health, KMC, Manipal. He has over 14 publications in both national and international Journals and has actively participated in more than 23 conferences with six oral and poster presentations in Medical Microbiology and Research.
