Ideas for good pharm text?

[nvshelat]

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Hello,

I'm currently a first year student @ NYCOM in a problem-based learning curriculum. It's difficult to integrate pharm into our discussions by its very nature (I mean, we can talk about mechanisms, but thats about it), and since I'm considering gas and it seems you need to have a solid grasp on Pharm, I was wondering if you could recommend any good pharm texts? I posted here as opposed to the pharm forum b/c I figured you guys would have the clinical perspective.
I was considering getting Goodman and Gillman; I have Katzung Basic/Clinical Pharm, but I don't like it. Any input is appreciated, thanks!

 

[proman]

I was in a 100% PBL (and organ based) curriculum. It's definitely do-able. In fact, I think that pharm in PBL-style leads to understanding instead of memorization. We used G&G primarily and Katzung (not the review) book + Lippincott's review book. Having read about 75% of G&G I can say it will take a huge amount of time. It does, on most things explain pathophysiology better than Katzung and in more detail. Is detail what you're wanting?

Integrating pharm into the cases means more than mechanisms of action. Pick the prototype of a drug class, and use your pathophysiology knowledge to predict understand why that drug class is beneficial, what the class adverse effects are etc. Then, learn what makes each drug in that class different.

 

[Mapleson D]

Check out Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy by David Golan et al. Written by students for students. Awesome book; as the title says, it integrates pharmacologic principles with pathophysiology to make things more relevant.

The Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Pharmacology book is good too, and they *finally* came out with a new edition!

 

[Gern Blansten]

Stoelting's Pharmacology and Physiology is pretty good but is really limited to anesthetic related drugs.