Apparatus to review clinical microbiology

摘要

The present invention relates to an apparatus to learn or to review clinical microbiology and infectious diseases by incorporating several concepts. In particular, the concept of organization by a logical color- coding system, whereby organisms with similar features are represented by the same color; and the concept of presenting each organism's information on one page or less with alternate pages blank, such as for notes or to eliminate distractions; and the concept of each organism's information spread out over two joining facing pages with extra blank space for notes or to eliminate distractions; and the concept that each organism's information is presented in a layout that graphically separates features of a given organism and that the layout is repeated for each organism within a category, section or chapter such that, although the information about a given feature will differ from organism to organism, the information about the feature will be exhibited on the same graphic location on the page for similarly grouped organisms; all together or individually, these concepts greatly facilitate learning and retention of information on microorganisms and infectious diseases. The apparatus to review clinical microbiology (10) further comprises at least one chapter (18) presented within each of the at least one category (14). The apparatus to review clinical microbiology (10) further comprises a cross reference presented at an end of each of the plurality of sections (16). The apparatus to review clinical microbiology (10) further comprises a General Cross Reference (124) presented at the end of the plurality of sections (16).