Pharmacology HELP!!

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Muggie

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Hi,

I'm planning on doing the Step I exam later this year, but I'm struggling with learning and remembering pharmacology.

I am currently using Lippincott's Pharmcards, they're great, but they don't seem to be working for me - too many cards, too much detail - very confusing. And even if I spend 2 days learning pharm, 1 week later I can hardly recall any of the drugs or their adverse reactions. I am also using First Aid, but a lot of the drugs I come across in UW Q. bank are not mentioned.

Unfortunately, my med school does not teach pharmacology at all and if they do it's quickly glanced over. So I'm pretty much starting from scratch.

Are there any good Pharmacology resources that anyone can recommend? I'd appreciate ANY ADVICE at all!

Thanks
 
Yeah, I've had the same problem.. I've heard recommendations to just stick with FA annotated with whichever questionbank you're using.

Pharmcards are very, very in-depth. I definitely agree that it would be very difficult (or even impossible!) to remember everything in them.

Anyone have any ideas? I wouldn't mind knowing how others are doing it too..
 
i took the step in june, did real well, and all i used for pharm was FA with annotations from Uworld. Pharm is tricky in that you forget the details quickly so for the boards i studied it throughout my prep time and then crammed it again right before the exam. hope this helps.
 
second bobcat, FA was money for pharm, you have to know it cold though. also read clin micro made simple drug chapters, helped a lot.
 
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