Clinical Notebook

This small notebook with removable pages serves as a personal reference manual and aid during the laboratory, and can be used for some specified exams. The contents must be completely done by you, as an individual, no group or duplicated material is allowed and it cannot contain downloads from the Internet, or Xeroxed information. Copying and pasting without proper citation is plagiarism and results in a zero for the entire assignment resulting in loss of the notebook, for more information see http://www.bc.cc.ca.us/library/cite.asp

If you choose to word process your pages, each page must have a header with your name and the date created which are justified to the right. The notebook is not graded and it is your choice as to whether you wish to create one or not. The production of the notebook is a significant tool for studying and an opportunity to create your own resource rather than memorizing details in the class and students report it is a useful study tool.

The organization of the notebook will depend upon your learning style and needs. You may want to organize the organisms by infections within body systems, or agent type, or alphabetical order. You may use tables, flow charts, or pictures. Because the notebook may be used on exams or quizzes, PDA’s and other electronic devices may not be used. You will also be allowed to use the Sanford guide for some portions of some exams.

The following sections may be useful in your notebook.

  1. Physical controls section
  2. Chemical controls section 
  3. Antibiotics section - You may create a chart or pages on antimicrobials, or just use the Sanford guide. It is usually helpful to have a picture depicting the areas of action for each of the drug families on a bacteria.
  4. Media Section - any relevant media and interpretation of the results
  5. Biochemical test information - any relevant lab tests
  6. A brief summary of the cellular metabolism
  7. A brief summary of the genetics information covered in class and in lab
  8. Comparative table of top ten wanted pathogens
  9. Table of resistant microbes
  10. Any useful flow charts, for example GNR identification, GPC identification, or an overall flow chart for living organisms
  11. A vocabulary section that has words that are difficult for you to remember or spell, however you may not simply copy and paste definitions from a published source

  12. Descriptions of typical infections - These can be organized by bacterial type, tests, infections, systems of the body, alphabetized, or by transmission and organized into tables, charts or individual pages

  13. A drawing, chart, or list of the normal flora for each area of the body

  14. A section on the sterile body areas

  15. A section on the innate (or nonspecific) immune system

  16. A section on the adaptive (or specific) immune system, typical functions of each of the immune cells (e.g. a chart or table of the various WBC's)

  17. A section on the immune disorders (hypersensitivities).

  18. Notes or a table on the classes of immunoglobulins - do not get too specific - quantity and weight of each is NOT important.

  19. Samples of immunology flow charts.

  20. A reference chart for the typical vaccination schedule, however the Sanford guide also has a useful table

  21. Information adapted form other student presentations

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