USMLE 5-HT Receptor subtypes and Drugs correlation ?

[Focused1]

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Is there an easy way to remember the myriad of drugs that act on the 5-HT receptor subtypes..
It's F-ing impossible to remember !

 

[NCmedstudent]

this level of detail wasn't required on my exam. i kinda have a photographic memory so after doing a fair number of questions they just kinda stuck tho. sorry i didn't have a mnemonic or anything.

i'd say ondansetron (5HT-3 antagonist) and the triptans (5HT1B/1D agonist) would be the most important ones if you HAD to know subtypes.

 

[NCmedstudent]

honestly my pharm questions that required me to remember mechanism of action were super easy.

the hard pharm questions had several drugs i've never heard of (not in uworld, not in first aid, not in my pharm class that had a 800-count drug list), as well as really complex contraindication questions.

 

[Focused1]

honestly my pharm questions that required me to remember mechanism of action were super easy.

the hard pharm questions had several drugs i've never heard of (not in uworld, not in first aid, not in my pharm class that had a 800-count drug list), as well as really complex contraindication questions.

Thanks for the input... if there is anything in particular worth focusing on in pharm...please do comment !

 

[NCmedstudent]

i got hard questions on common drugs. it's hard to explain. i didn't have this question, but for example they'd ask like the most random question about cough syrup or antacids. i spent a lot of time learning the lesser known drugs (drugs non-medical ppl never would've heard of) that i "thought" were high yield but really i should've read a 30 page writeup on benadryl (again just an example)

KNOW CANCER DRUGS. easy point city. if you knew the 2-3 high yield facts on all of them that was about 5-10 free points on my exam.

 

[Focused1]

i got hard questions on common drugs. it's hard to explain. i didn't have this question, but for example they'd ask like the most random question about cough syrup or antacids. i spent a lot of time learning the lesser known drugs (drugs non-medical ppl never would've heard of) that i "thought" were high yield but really i should've read a 30 page writeup on benadryl (again just an example)

KNOW CANCER DRUGS. easy point city. if you knew the 2-3 high yield facts on all of them that was about 5-10 free points on my exam.

thanks so much !

 

[Macaroon_Berry]

i got hard questions on common drugs. it's hard to explain. i didn't have this question, but for example they'd ask like the most random question about cough syrup or antacids. i spent a lot of time learning the lesser known drugs (drugs non-medical ppl never would've heard of) that i "thought" were high yield but really i should've read a 30 page writeup on benadryl (again just an example)

KNOW CANCER DRUGS. easy point city. if you knew the 2-3 high yield facts on all of them that was about 5-10 free points on my exam.

wow, are you kidding me? cough syrup or antacids? there's only so much you can know about them, isn't there?

 

[NCmedstudent]

wow, are you kidding me? cough syrup or antacids? there's only so much you can know about them, isn't there?

apparently not. i feel like the writers of the exam purposefully tried to make easy drugs hard/confusing and more complicated drugs easy. this was probably the section of my exam most unlike the NBMEs. i thought the pharm questions from the NBMEs were an absolute joke. i don't think i missed one.

 

[NCmedstudent]

pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics i had a few and all were super easy.

 

[NCmedstudent]

also i feel like i had a question or two where they would describe a person who had about 6 co-morbidities and was on a laundry list of drugs, and then ask what additional drug is contraindicated but it would not be something obvious like non-selective beta blockers in patients with COPD.