Microbiology: Basic and Clinical Principles

Reach every student by pairing this text with Mastering Microbiology

Mastering^™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. An expanded, robust Mastering Microbiology program works with the text to provide an interactive and personalized learning experience that ensures students learn microbiology both in and out of the classroom. Learn more about Mastering Microbiology.

• Clinical Case online videos based on the printed book’s Clinical Case openers ask students to apply knowledge and critical thinking to hypothetical clinical scenarios.
• Think Clinically: Comprehensive Cases based on the printed book’s end-of-chapter cases offer another opportunity for students to layer knowledge, analyze data, and apply what they’ve learned to clinical scenarios, and are tagged with ASM’s nursing-centric learning outcomes.
• Concept Coach animations provide “just-in-time” coaching on challenging topics in microbiology and walk students through the Focus Figures one step at a time.
• NCLEX-HESI-TEAS style questions help students practice critical thinking skills as well as build their confidence for the NCLEX  exam. Students are asked to select the best solution of several potentially correct answers.   
• Interactive Microbiology is a dynamic suite of interactive tutorials and animations that teach key microbiology concepts including Operons, Biofilms and Quorum Sensing, Complement, and Antibiotic Resistance. Interactive Microbiology actively engages students with each topic, enabling them to learn from manipulating variables, predicting outcomes, and answering formative and summative assessment questions. Each tutorial presents the concept within a real health care scenario in order to emphasize problem solving and interest students from the beginning.
• Interactive Microbiology coaching activities are assignable in Mastering Microbiology, and each is presented in two parts: one for basic concepts, and one as a “scientific thinking” exercise that requires students to apply what they’ve learned to a novel scenario.
• MicroBoosters are a suite of brief video tutorials that cover key concepts that students may need to review or re-learn. MicroBooster topics include Study Skills, Math, Scientific Terminology, Basic Chemistry, Cell Biology, and Basic Biology. MicroBoosters can be assigned in the MasteringMicrobiology Item Library or as Dynamic Study Modules, and are also available for self-study in the Mastering Study Area.   
• Additionally, Mastering Microbiology includes MicroFlix^™ 3D movie-quality animations with self-paced coaching activities and gradable quizzes to help students master the three toughest topics in microbiology: metabolism, DNA replication, and immunology; BioFlix^® 3D movie-quality animations that cover basic topics in general biology; and Microbiology Animations for over 100 microbiology processes.
• Pearson eText, optimized for mobile, seamlessly integrates videos and other rich media with the text andgives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere. Pearson eText is available with Mastering Microbiology when packaged with new books, or as an upgrade students can purchase online. The Pearson eText  mobile app offers:
• Offline access on most iOS and Android phones/tablets.
• Accessibility (screen-reader ready)
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode
• Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search tools
• Embedded videos for a more interactive learning experience  
• Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level of confidence in their answer. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. Instructors can now remove questions from Dynamic Study Modules to better fit their course.
• Learning Catalytics helps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
• NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
• NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
• Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
• Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
• Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
• Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.

About the Book

Focus on Critical Thinking and Application

• A Clinical Case opens each chapter and presents compelling patient scenarios with questions that allow students to apply their understanding of chapter material by utilizing the unique S.M.A.R.T. (Summarize, Make Connections, Avoid Distractors, Re-read, and Thoroughly Answer) problem-solving framework. Clinical Cases are accessible via the Pearson eText or QR-code-reader on a mobile device.
• Think Clinically: Comprehensive Cases appear at the end of each chapter and offer another opportunity for students to layer knowledge, analyze data, and apply what they’ve learned to clinical scenarios—utilizing the S.M.A.R.T. framework.  
• NCLEX-HESI-TEAS style questions at the end of each chapter help students practice critical thinking skills as well as build their confidence for the NCLEX  exam. These are also assignable in Mastering Microbiology where students are asked to select the best solution of several potentially correct answers.

Help Students Tackle Tough Topics in Microbiology

• Concept Coach animations provide “just-in-time” coaching on the most difficult concepts in microbiology. They are accessible via the Pearson eText or via a QR-code-reader on a mobile device. Look for the QR codes throughout the text.
• Build Your Foundation checkpoints offer formative self-assessments throughout the book. They are accompanied by online Quick Quizzes (accessible via the Pearson eText a QR-code-reader on a mobile device) that provide students with specific wrong-answer feedback and help keep them on track. The assignable Build Your Foundation quizzes in Mastering Microbiology offer a unique answer format, where students are asked to select all right answers, more than one of which may be correct.  
• ChemNotes provide coaching for students who are underprepared or who need a refresher in chemistry.
• Mnemonic devices help students remember challenging microbiology concepts.

Bridging the Gap Between Class and Career

• Training Tomorrow’s Health Team boxed features build interest and encourage students to immediately link newly learned theory to clinical practice in a relevant context. Examples include the new field of genetics nursing, the brief time between introducing an antibiotic and resistance, and antibiotic specificity.
• Bench to Bedside boxed features introduce cutting edge advances in translational medicine by highlighting the increasingly important collaboration between scientists and clinicians in order to improve patient outcomes. Topics include “Genetically Engineered Bacteria and Medical Therapies” and “Do Gut Microbes Contribute to Obesity?”

Art Informed by Principles of Learning Design

• The art program incorporates research-based learning design principles. It employs step-by-step process figures, orientation diagrams, layouts that are intuitive to navigate, consistent use of color and styles, analogies, and humor to help students master the fundamentals of microbiology. It omits extraneous details to reduce cognitive overload and focus the learner on what’s truly important.