MD & DO How useful/necessary is Sketchy Pharm?

[Henry101]

I thought Sketchy micro was awesome and super-useful in memorizing a ton of minutiae about the different bugs but I'm having a tough time transitioning to Sketchy Pharm. The memory hooks are much weaker and I feel like the time I devote to watching and memorizing the videos could easily be put into just studying the drugs out of FA with flashcards. Does anyone else feel this way or am I not using the program correctly?

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[ERDOC555]

I thought Sketchy micro was awesome and super-useful in memorizing a ton of minutiae about the different bugs but I'm having a tough time transitioning to Sketchy Pharm. The memory hooks are much weaker and I feel like the time I devote to watching and memorizing the videos could easily be put into just studying the drugs out of FA with flashcards. Does anyone else feel this way or am I not using the program correctly?

I agree with you 100%. I think some videos are decent, but often it's just easier to memorize and learn the drugs outright, especially for shorter sections of FA pharm. I've also noticed massive variations in quality between pharm videos. Some are really helpful and others seem to almost detract from learning.

For example, renal pharm was beyond simple and almost everything made sense just based on knowing which receptor was being blocked, so I didn't find 1-2 hours of sketchy pharm videos to be useful

 

[Lebowski9]

I thought Sketchy micro was awesome and super-useful in memorizing a ton of minutiae about the different bugs but I'm having a tough time transitioning to Sketchy Pharm. The memory hooks are much weaker and I feel like the time I devote to watching and memorizing the videos could easily be put into just studying the drugs out of FA with flashcards. Does anyone else feel this way or am I not using the program correctly?

I think sketchypharm is hit or miss. Some of the content is great, such as Antifungals/virals, antipsychotics, benzos, etc. I thought the antibacterial sections were pretty poor outside of tetracyclines, quinolones, and cephalosporins. For some reason, be it the drawings themselves or the narrator, the penicillin drugs didn’t stick with me. I actually learned all of my antiprotozoal and helminths from sketchymicro.

Speaking of sketchy, they are dropping the new Sketchypath come December 5th. Looks pretty epic and just in time for boards studying.

 

[JamesPotterMS-3]

Speaking of sketchy, they are dropping the new Sketchypath come December 5th. Looks pretty epic and just in time for boards studying.

Dang. Really curious what this looks like.
OP, I didn't use sketchy pharm and I did fine on pharm. I think FA covered almost every drug I saw on Step 1.

 

[Rekt]

I was skeptical as you were, but I thought it ended being even better than SketchyMicro for boards. I ended up getting two full passes before my exams. Granted, COMLEX was much more heavy in pharm than my step, but I thought it was just as useful for both. With that being said, if you don't feel that it's worth it, First Aid pharm was plenty for Step 1.