Lange Pharm cards

[artsydoc]

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Has anyone used these as there primary pharm study tool for step and the shelf exam and found it to be sufficient? First Aid isn't in a format I can learn pharm from effectively. (I've learned from flashcards all year, but my class flashcards are WAY to detailed. And there's close to 1000)

 

[doublejump]

I thought they were useful but I actually found my time better spent pouring through First Aid and UWORLD. I thought a lot of the cards had information that wasn't too high yield and it made me sort of lose faith in the cards which made learning from them more difficult -- or rather information not directly from First Aid. I've seen the KAPLAN cards from other students and they looked better in my opinion.

 

[artsydoc]

Thanks for your comments.

 

[lyth0s]

So far I have found them to be pretty useful. I like the fact that it just makes me focus on pharm for maybe 20 minutes a day and the Lange cards also bold side effects or specific uses for it that are especially high yield (makes it different from the rest of the similar drugs), which are not bolded in FA. Also if you add 5 pharm cards a day to your normal study routine (which isn't too much to memorize) then you will make a full pass of all the pharm cards in about 37 days.

After using the Lange pharm cards I'm much more adept at answer anti-bacterial drugs in both USMLE-RX and Uworld. I assume they will be just as useful for the rest of the systems (I especially need help in psych drugs).

 

[Phloston]

Phenomenal resource.

 

[artsydoc]

Thanks for the responses-reassuring!

 

[MedicalBeast]

So far I have found them to be pretty useful. I like the fact that it just makes me focus on pharm for maybe 20 minutes a day and the Lange cards also bold side effects or specific uses for it that are especially high yield (makes it different from the rest of the similar drugs), which are not bolded in FA. Also if you add 5 pharm cards a day to your normal study routine (which isn't too much to memorize) then you will make a full pass of all the pharm cards in about 37 days.

After using the Lange pharm cards I'm much more adept at answer anti-bacterial drugs in both USMLE-RX and Uworld. I assume they will be just as useful for the rest of the systems (I especially need help in psych drugs).

when you studied the 5 pharm cards a day, did you do them by drug class/organ system or did you just pick 5 random cards every day? thanks in advance

 

[thedoctor8706]

I tried both Lange's cards and also the Lippincott PharmCards. I found the Lippincott cards to be way more helpful, but they do have a lot of info. My pharm professor here used to write questions for the NBME so he had been giving us a list of higher yield drugs to know throughout the year, so I was able to weed through the unimportant stuff by following his recommendations, and Lippincott's cards just had better facts and diagrams to go along with this. That may be annoying to some, having more drugs than you need to know, but since I had a good high-yield list to go by, they were helpful. Used along with drugs found in First Aid, Lippincott's cards would probably be really good at filling in the gaps First Aid leaves! But that's just in my opinion.

 

[lyth0s]

I went through them in order by system. The reason I did so is that not only will you learn each individual drug (either by system or random), but you also learn how to organize all the drugs of that "system". For example if you look at card 41 that organizes the adrengeric agents for you. I would learn that card first so I understand how each of those drugs are categorized, then I would look at each of those drug cards to learn the details of each drug.

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