Microbiology: Spring 2010

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Hello. Anyone out there taking Micro this semester? I thought I would start a thread for us to talk and discuss microbiology for the semester. I am looking forward to it.

What textbook are you going to be using? I am using Microbiology: With Diseases by Taxonomy - Robert Bauman. I am picking it up tomorrow.

I think it will be a great semester! :yeah:

Okay, had two classes already. (Mon and Tues) I really like our professor. She seems like she is very willing to help students succeed.

First two days we just learned about the class and introduced eachother and had a small class activity. Lab time was introductory too.

I can't wait to start getting into the details of micro. How is everyone doing so far?

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Specializes in Psychiatric, Med-Surg, Operating Room.

Today was my first day for the Spring semester. So far my professor seems really good. Today she just went over basics like who were the important contributors to microbiology, etc. Our textbook is also Tortora (10th edition). Tomorrow is our first lab.

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Yesterday was my first day of class. Professor seems very good, willing to help and super organized. We too are using tortora 10th edition. Basically, we just went over 1st chapter and basics of the class what he expects ect... and we had our first lab. i am excited I think this class is going to be alot of fun!

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I am taking a blended course. The lecture content is online and we meet once a week to perform the labs. I've been anxious to start this semester because I can apply to clinicals in May. I am also taking A&P II as a blended course, so that just adds to the stress.

We just finished our second week and so far so good! Taking this class online, in my opinion, is way more work than going to lecture on campus. It is proving to be time consuming as I am on the website at least 3 hours per day. My prof breaks down the points we earn by giving grades for homework, a vocab quiz, pre-lab quiz, and post-lab quiz weekly! I like it this way because it forces me to keep on top of the assignments as opposed to only taking 3 huge lab exams a semester, then 2 exams for the lab portion. The material is quite interesting and I am really enjoying this class so far. If only my A&P II class was this organized I would be good to go....

Looking forward to seeing how everyone is making out....

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

I just started micro this week! My textbook is Microbiology, An Introduction, 10th Ed., by Gerard Tortora, Berdell Funke and Christine Case. So far so good, nothing too traumatizing. :D Glad I found this thread ...

Good luck to everyone this semester!!

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Started Micro beginning of this week using the Tortora book just to reinforce the concepts that my teacher lectures. HE TALKS SO FRIGGN FAST! i'm buying a recorder so I can go home & re-listen to the lecture. First day we already started talking about Etiological agents, binomial nomeclature, examples of intracellular "particles" that need to live in other cells to survive due to lack of enzymes or leaky membrane!

Was anyones first lecture this intense already? This seems to be waaaay harder then A&P!!! maybe because it's a whole new set of terminology that is so in

depth esp with naming the virus complexs and etiological agents and the diseases they produce! eeeeek pray for me lol!

First lab was fun. Did some sapling of different things so that we can grow bacteria over the weekend!

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Sounds like our first lecture and lab. I agree I think this class is going to be way harder than A@P. Good luck to you i 'm sure we'll all make it through just fine.

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I'm taking Microbiology as well. Although not in the catalog as a blended course, in reality it is. The professor has PowerPoint slides, .mp3 lectures, and .doc scripts for the .mp3's, as well as on-line quizs. You can got to lecture to ask questions, or not your choice. The hard thing is keeping up, but I just took my first test and got a 94 , so it must be working! I'm also taking A&P 1 and Soc 101 this quarter - busy, busy, busy!

Ken

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I just had my first day of class today. It only meets once a week on Saturdays and goes for 5 hours! The lecture was pretty basic this week. She really just read from her Power Point slides. We took swabs from around the building that we will look at next week in lab.

We do have a few assignments lined up to do which should be fun to work on and interesting.

Our instructor emphasized that we should have taken general biology before this class. I haven't officially taken it. We had the option to test out of it, so I studied the book and barely tested out of it. I hope this doesn't put me behind too much. I do have the biology book I studied from around for reference.

Good luck to all taking micro this semester!

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any recommendations as to what to study?? i start feb 8th so any suggestions will be appreciated

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
any recommendations as to what to study?? i start feb 8th so any suggestions will be appreciated

I found these to be pretty helpful reads only to give you the gist of what's going to be covered. I found that so far it's following the pattern of my class and if I read these before I start reading my own textbook chapters I seem to get a better feel for things. Good luck!

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Microbiology.topicArticleId-8524.html

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Thanks for the tip of the cliff notes, I will be using them!:yeah:

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