pharm cards?

[fantasty]

I'll be returning to the wards after several years in grad school, and pharm still haunts me. We're having a used book sale and school and several are getting rid of their pharm cards. Do you think they'd be at all useful for reviewing prior to clinical rotations, or are they specifically geared to pharmacology courses?

 

[KidDr]

I'll be returning to the wards after several years in grad school, and pharm still haunts me. We're having a used book sale and school and several are getting rid of their pharm cards. Do you think they'd be at all useful for reviewing prior to clinical rotations, or are they specifically geared to pharmacology courses?

probably not worth it--much of what you learn in 2nd year pharm isn't all that clinically applicable. plus, you'll probably find yourself with 100s and 100s of cards, when in reality the number of drugs you really need to know well is much less than that, but how're you gonna know that from looking at that stack of cards? what I'd encourage you to do instead is to get in the habit of looking up every single med your patients are on. if you do this consistently on your medicine, surgery, peds, rotations, you'll probably know 80%+ of all the meds you need to know. the remaining ~20% are a mix of a few from ob/gyn, outpatient med, and psych that you probably won't see much of on your core rotations.

 

[pillowhead]

I'll be returning to the wards after several years in grad school, and pharm still haunts me. We're having a used book sale and school and several are getting rid of their pharm cards. Do you think they'd be at all useful for reviewing prior to clinical rotations, or are they specifically geared to pharmacology courses?

great for 2nd yr pharm

really a waste of time for 3rd yr rotations.

just make it a habit of looking up one or two drugs in detail each day on the wards and you'll be surprised by how few there really are compared to what you learn in pharm.