Most Common Prescriptions cheat sheet?

[gusterbyu]

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Someone has to have something like this for certain rotations (most common drug prescriptions & how to write them for Family Med, IM, PEDs, etc.) that they got from school or something. Pretty sure each primary care doc has 25 drugs or so they use commonly. It'd be nice to have a sheet for each rotation that has them written out in prescription form so you don't have to spend time digging through the PDA or pharmacopea everytime. Anyone?

 

[haveaniceday]

Someone has to have something like this for certain rotations (most common drug prescriptions & how to write them for Family Med, IM, PEDs, etc.) that they got from school or something. Pretty sure each primary care doc has 25 drugs or so they use commonly. It'd be nice to have a sheet for each rotation that has them written out in prescription form so you don't have to spend time digging through the PDA or pharmacopea everytime. Anyone?

If it is something you use repeatedly, you will memorize it and not need the PDA or pharmacoepia every time. Trust me.

Besides, every hospital usually has it's own formulary and each attending you work with will have different preferences. Just know the main drug classes and have an idea of starting doses (i.e. for ACE-I, lasix, hctz, PPI, H2 blockers, assorted Abx), the rest will just fall into place and you will always reference something anyway.

 

[BigRedBeta]

During my third year, it seemed that most docs expected M3's to come up with the appropriate class of drugs to be used in that situation but rarely a specific drug (unless it was extremely obvious). Early on in the year, I definitely got away with saying "anti-hypertensives" or "antibiotics".

You'll figure out what's commonly used on each service. On family, I wrote for a lot of clarithromycin for some reason, but pretty much never used that anywhere else.

Drugs can be frustrating, but you have to remember that the residents are using these drugs all the time, that's why they can remember them so easily. You, coming in for 2-4 weeks at a time, don't have that luxury. Put effort into making your choices and you'll be fine.

 

[gusterbyu]

Thanks for the comments. I guess I'm just in panic mode for my first rotation. I'm not as worried now. 👍