Rapid Review Microbiology and Immunology (Only CD ROM)

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»Book Publisher: Mosby (07 May, 2002)
»ISBN: 0323008402
»Book author: Ken S. Rosenthal, James S. Tan
»Amazon Rating: 5.0

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Date: 2006-05-01 Rating: 5
Review:

Simply the best microbiology review book

This book is great. It covers everything you need to know for step 1, while leaving out all you dont’ need to know. The questions are probably the best micro vignette questions out there, and helps reinforce what you learned from the book.
This book is much better than micro made ridiculously simple in terms of boards review. Its written in outline format so you can get through it much faster, and it includes an immunology section that has all you need to know for the immunology questions on the step.

The only thing I don’t like is the Rapid Review format. At times the outline format should be written in complete sentences (like the high-yield series) to avoid confusing statments/facts. For me, this seemed especially true in the immunology section, which can be confusing if you have a weak immuno background.

Other than that, this is a great review book. The only review book for micro in my opinion.

Date: 2006-04-22 Rating: 5
Review:

Review of Microbiology and Immunology

Perfect for medical microbio class. I used Micro Made easy for class, and after reading this book to review for the boards I would definately recommend it over Micro made easy. The organization is better, it’s a shorter text, has an outline format, has excellent tables that while are not as detailed as the micro made easy book are a lot easier to read, and it has everything you need to know for class, which micro made easy does not.

Immuno section is a bit brief but it has all the essentials. I would also recommend reading Immunobiology by Janeway and Medical Microbiology by Murray. Both texts are outstanding and really help you appreciate the subjects.

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How to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents using earlier versions?

Everybody is switching to Microsoft Office 2007 but it's too costly for a student to purchase his/her own copy. So we stick to the earlier versions of MS Office, i.e. 2003, 2000. But a problem arises when we want to open a MS 2007 document but we only have the earlier versions.

Here's how to:

1. Download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.
2. Follow the installation instruction and your done!

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2

Recommended Microsoft Office programs:

• Microsoft Word 2000 with Service Pack 3, Microsoft Excel 2000 with Service Pack 3, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 with Service Pack 3
• Microsoft Word 2002 with Service Pack 3, Microsoft Excel 2002 with Service Pack 3, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 with Service Pack 3
• Microsoft Office Word 2003 with at least Service Pack 1, Microsoft Office Excel 2003 with at least Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 with at least Service Pack 1
• Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
• Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003

Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy, Version 1.5: 13th Edition in English (Free Software)

Book Description:
CD-ROM, in jewel case, presents all illustrations and tables from Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy, 13th edition, c2001. More than 1,500 illustrations and drawings from dissections, cross-sections, and classical relational anatomy. Covers the entire macroscopic anatomy of the human body. System requires: MS Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000, or XP, 8MB RAM, 14MB free space.


Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (01 May, 2003)
ISBN: 0781740541
Book author: R. Putz, R. Pabst, Andreas H Weiglein

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Free Software: Heart Sounds Made Easy: (with CD-ROM) (Made Easy)

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»Book Publisher: Churchill Livingstone (02 October, 2002)
»ISBN: 0443071411
»Book author: A. P. Salmon, E.M. Brown, W. Collis
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Book Description:
A practical and simple guide to the art of cardiac auscultation which teaches the reader how to identify a pathological heart murmur. The book explains what heart sounds are and how to use a stethoscope. It covers all the standard adult and child murmurs and is organised by region. It includes all the text of the tutorials. The CD provides, in a series of tutorials, the chance to listen to and identify the range of heart sounds; while in the pathology section a listener can focus down on each individual component of the sound allowing them to discern the key features of each murmur.

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Free Software for Students: Explore Human Anatomy Professional Edition

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»Book Publisher: Mega Systems (17 June, 2004)
»ISBN: B0002FG4L2
»Book author:
»Amazon Rating: 3.0

Book Description:
Explore Human Anatomy Professional Edition holds a world of authoritative information on the world within the human body. This 12-CD set feature fully updated and complete information, presented through spectacular multimedia displays, high-resolution pictures and animation. It’s a total guide to the working of the human body! 3D models allow parts of anatomy to be pinpointed and text, graphics and animation can be called up Advanced Virtual Reality(VR) technology allows the user to move anatomical models freely, to view them from multiple angles & perspectives

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Free Downloads and Software for Students Part 1

1. Student Life 3.0.6 (Free Trial)


Simplify the chaos of college life with this cool student organizer. With Student Life, you can track and organize everything from your homework, tests, degree plan, loans, scholarships, and even your social life. It has the added feature of allowing you to change the look and feel by setting your favorite "skin". This is a fun and useful tool for ALL students.

2. Student Grades 1.0 (Free Trial)


A simple software to manage student grades, calculations are all over. FEATURES: possibility to enter 30 exercises, a report with the last exercises, a student list, a board to facilitate data entry, etc. You can modify the student marks and even the value of your assessments (the software will adjust itself automatically). DIRECTIONS: decompress in a folder and click twice on the file "Student" choose to continue if a message appears.

3. AceReader Pro Deluxe Plus (Free Trial)


Speed Reading, Assessment and Online Reader Software. Improve your reading skills by training with Drills and Games. Track your progress by taking Comprehension Tests (for grades 1-12 plus adult). Read efficiently online with the Online Reader. Utilizes Tachistoscope Technology. Very customizable with many option settings and ability to create custom content. Includes Startup Wizard Screen. For all ages (professionals to children).

Why schools should exclusively use free software?

Recently, I read an interesting article urging schools to use free software for teaching students written by Richard Stallman.

There are general reasons why all computer users should insist on free software. It gives users the freedom to control their own computers—with proprietary software, the computer does what the software owner wants it to do, not what the software user wants it to do. Free software also gives users the freedom to cooperate with each other, to lead an upright life. These reasons apply to schools as they do to everyone.

But there are special reasons that apply to schools. They are the subject of this article.

First, free software can save the schools money. Even in the richest countries, schools are short of money. Free software gives schools, like other users, the freedom to copy and redistribute the software, so the school system can make copies for all the computers they have. In poor countries, this can help close the digital divide.

This obvious reason, while important, is rather shallow. And proprietary software developers can eliminate this disadvantage by donating copies to the schools. (Watch out!—a school that accepts this offer may have to pay for future upgrades.) So let's look at the deeper reasons.

School should teach students ways of life that will benefit society as a whole. They should promote the use of free software just as they promote recycling. If schools teach students free software, then the students will use free software after they graduate. This will help society as a whole escape from being dominated (and gouged) by megacorporations. Those corporations offer free samples to schools for the same reason tobacco companies distribute free cigarettes: to get children addicted (1). They will not give discounts to these students once they grow up and graduate.

Free software permits students to learn how software works. When students reach their teens, some of them want to learn everything there is to know about their computer system and its software. That is the age when people who will be good programmers should learn it. To learn to write software well, students need to read a lot of code and write a lot of code. They need to read and understand real programs that people really use. They will be intensely curious to read the source code of the programs that they use every day.

Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret—learning is forbidden!” Free software encourages everyone to learn. The free software community rejects the “priesthood of technology”, which keeps the general public in ignorance of how technology works; we encourage students of any age and situation to read the source code and learn as much as they want to know. Schools that use free software will enable gifted programming students to advance.

The next reason for using free software in schools is on an even deeper level. We expect schools to teach students basic facts, and useful skills, but that is not their whole job. The most fundamental mission of schools is to teach people to be good citizens and good neighbors—to cooperate with others who need their help. In the area of computers, this means teaching them to share software. Elementary schools, above all, should tell their pupils, “If you bring software to school, you must share it with the other children.” Of course, the school must practice what it preaches: all the software installed by the school should be available for students to copy, take home, and redistribute further.

Teaching the students to use free software, and to participate in the free software community, is a hands-on civics lesson. It also teaches students the role model of public service rather than that of tycoons. All levels of school should use free software.

Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales, 9th Ed.

Author(s): Marilynn E. Doenges, RN, BSN, MA, Mary Frances Moorhouse, RN, BSN, CRRN, CLNC, TNT-RN & Alice C. Geissler-Murr, RN, BSN, CLNC

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company Make sure your students use the best selling pocket guide to plan their patients'' care! This pocket sized reference helps nursing students identify interventions most commonly associated with nursing diagnoses when caring for patients. It''s the perfect resource for hospital and community-based settings.

Key Features:

• Alphabetical listing of new and revised nursing diagnoses through the latest NANDA conference keeps you up-to-date
• Related Factors, Defining Characteristics, Desired Outcomes/Evaluation Criteria, Actions/Interventions, and Documentation Focus are listed for each nursing diagnosis to help your students plan patient care
• Updated section of up to 400 Disorders/Health Problems with associated nursing diagnoses that facilitates the assessment and diagnosis steps of the nursing process
• Lists Nursing Actions/Interventions with selected rationales according to nursing priorities
• "Documentation Focus" section?organized according to nursing priorities?is an excellent tool to remind your students how important and necessary recording the steps of the nursing process is to patient care
• Desired outcomes and evaluation criteria are clearly identified to assist the nurse in formulating individual patient outcomes and to support the evaluation process

With Skyscape's patented smARTlink™ technology, RNDxInt9™ can easily cross-index with other clinical and drug prescription products from Skyscape to provide a powerful and integrated source of clinical information that you can carry with you wherever you go!

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Free Software for Students: Munchies: Eating Well on a Student Budget

This is an interactive software program that provides information about nutrition, dieting, and other aspects of eating well on a student budget. Written by a Registered Dietician, it focuses particularly on issues of interest to college and university audiences, and is also suitable for junior high and high schools.

This program is free; please give it to your friends, post it on BBS's, and include it on CD-ROM collections (with suitable credit, of course).

(Both the Mac andWindows versions are self-extracting archives; double-click the icon on your computer to install the program after you download it. If this doesn't work, use a program such as WinZip or StuffitExpander to decompress the file.)

Download Macintosh version (8.6 Mb)

Download Windows 3.1 version (4.9 Mb)

Download Windows 95/NT version (5.0 Mb)

Free Software: Students & Stress: How To Get Your Degree Without Losing Your Mind

This an interactive software program which provides information and self-assessments regarding stress and stress management. Written particularly for college and university audiences, and is also suitable the general public and for junior high and high schools. This program is free; please give it to your friends, post it on BBS's, and include it onCD-ROM collections (with suitable credit, of course. Both the Mac and Windows versions are self-extracting archives.

Download: Macintosh version (9.1 Mb) | Windows version (5.3 Mb) | Windows 95/NT version (4.6 Mb)