With the dreaded USMLE Step 1 now always around the corner -- it's now given 6 days a week, every week! -- the test has become a popular topic of questions on Medscape Med Students' discussion boards.

IT might be said that the illustrative side of the science of bacteriology, whether by photographs, drawings, or coloured pictures, is, to some extent, overdone, and that the “Hand-Atlanten ...