Step II How to learn dosing?

[coreytayloris]

How do you guys learn dosing for drugs?


(I guess this question isn't entirely relevant to step 2 but we get asked it in our CS and CK shelf exams in school)

 

[ijn]

How do you guys learn dosing for drugs?


(I guess this question isn't entirely relevant to step 2 but we get asked it in our CS and CK shelf exams in school)

It has zero relevance to STEP 2. There isn't a chance in hell of being required to know dosing for STEP 2 CK or CS. I'd go ask the clinical rotations subsection.

 

[NewYorkDoctors]

while some Step 2 qbanks have questions with doses, it will NEVER EVER show up on Step2CK, Step2CS, Step 3, or Step3 CCS.


While this thread may be moved soon...

the best way to learn doses is to actually prescribe medications on your rotations or as an intern.

Search up the "most commonly prescribed drugs" online.

Learning how to use the heparin nomograms, how to dose/adjust warfarin, how to titrate insulin, how to taper steroids, IV to PO conversions, and how to prescribe pain medications seem to be highest yield for inpatient IM as well.

 

[ASAPRocky]

this topic is terrible.

How do I learn to be a resident while still being a student?

Simply put, you don't. Patient young grasshopper

 

[OveractiveBrain]

this topic is terrible.

How do I learn to be a resident while still being a student?

Simply put, you don't. Patient young grasshopper

well said

 

[ArcGurren]

How do you guys learn dosing for drugs?


(I guess this question isn't entirely relevant to step 2 but we get asked it in our CS and CK shelf exams in school)

I have never ever been asked a dosing question on a shelf exam in medical school ever. That sort of thing is relegated to Step 3 (I've never even heard of this being the case actually) and boards (whether it's ABIM, surgery boards, whatever). The closest I ever came to that was a question on my family medicine shelf which gave choices of different % saline (and the answer was stupidly easy because you always volume resucitate with normal saline at 0.9%).