This textbook from CBS Publishers & Distributors is an English medium (अंग्रेज़ी माध्यम) title by Prof. V.S. Randhawa, written for MBBS students studying microbiology (माइक्रोबायोलॉजी) under the competency-based curriculum. (cite index="524-1">Its organising principle follows directly from the curriculum: the Competency-Based Undergraduate Curriculum for the Indian Medical Graduate, prescribed by the National Medical Commission, advocates horizontal and vertical integration of microbiology with other subjects on the basis of clinical systems. Accordingly this second edition has introduced more than 100 integrated clinical cases, including 23 on parasitic diseases, referenced clinical system-wise in an exclusive infectious diseases section and dealt with in the relevant microbiology category. The book imbibes the spirit and word of the competency-based curriculum and yet retains the traditional approach to learning microbiology for greater understanding, with bidirectional linkages that permit navigation from clinical cases to core microbiology and back again. That bidirectional structure is the practical distinction. A student can start from a case and work back to the organism, or start from the organism and see where it presents clinically — which is how integrated assessment now tests the subject, while the traditional organism-based text underneath keeps the subject learnable in the first place. (cite index="524-1">The second edition runs to 888 pages, published December 2023, weighing around 2 kg. (cite index="524-1">Prof. Randhawa has written two textbooks and contributed chapters to three others, reviews for many leading national and international journals, and has numerous papers in indexed and international journals along with over 70 scientific presentations. The whole book is written in English in the Roman script.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script)
Written by Prof. V.S. Randhawa, published by CBS Publishers & Distributors
Second edition — 888 pages, paperback
Written to the latest CBME guidelines and the NMC competency-based curriculum
Parasitology included in the same volume — no separate parasitology book needed
More than 100 integrated clinical cases across the book
23 clinical cases specifically on parasitic diseases
Exclusive infectious diseases section, referenced clinical system-wise
Bidirectional linkages — navigate from case to core microbiology and back
Retains the traditional organism-based structure alongside the integrated approach
Supports the horizontal and vertical integration the CBME curriculum requires
Suited to case-based assessment in university professional examinations
Written by a professor with two textbooks and wide journal review experience
Suitable for MBBS second professional students
Works as a case-based companion to a conventional textbook, or as the main text
सीबीएस पब्लिशर्स एंड डिस्ट्रीब्यूटर्स द्वारा प्रकाशित 'Essentials of Microbiology: An Integrated Clinical Case Based Approach' का यह द्वितीय संस्करण प्रो. वी.एस. रंधावा द्वारा लिखा गया है। भारतीय चिकित्सा स्नातक के लिए राष्ट्रीय चिकित्सा आयोग द्वारा निर्धारित कॉम्पिटेंसी-बेस्ड पाठ्यक्रम में माइक्रोबायोलॉजी को अन्य विषयों के साथ क्षैतिज एवं ऊर्ध्वाधर रूप से एकीकृत करने पर बल दिया गया है, और यह पुस्तक उसी दृष्टिकोण पर आधारित है। इसमें 100 से अधिक एकीकृत क्लिनिकल केस दिए गए हैं, जिनमें 23 केस परजीवी रोगों पर हैं। इन्हें एक विशेष 'इन्फेक्शियस डिज़ीज़' खंड में क्लिनिकल सिस्टम के अनुसार व्यवस्थित किया गया है। पुस्तक की विशेषता इसकी द्विदिशात्मक (bidirectional) संरचना है — पाठक क्लिनिकल केस से मूल माइक्रोबायोलॉजी की ओर तथा वहाँ से पुनः केस की ओर आसानी से जा सकता है। साथ ही पुस्तक ने माइक्रोबायोलॉजी सीखने की पारंपरिक शैली को भी बरकरार रखा है। इसमें पैरासाइटोलॉजी भी सम्मिलित है, अतः अलग से पैरासाइटोलॉजी की पुस्तक की आवश्यकता नहीं पड़ती। कुल 888 पृष्ठ। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है, हिन्दी में नहीं।
