random pharm questions in usmleworld

[blondemed]

Seriously, I am weak in pharm to begin with (thanks to my school not emphasizing any pharm in the first 2 years with exception of a 2-week block, arggh) but world keeps generating these crazy side effect and/or drug combination questions that I've never heard of or seen in FA/pharm cards. I try to write them down and commit them to memory but lately it seems that more and more are popping up. Anyone else encounter this situation?

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[osli]

Yep. Pharm in UW is a biatch. MOA of side effects of primidone, are you serious? I created about thirty new pharm cards for drugs I had never heard of from going through UW, and I have 10% still left.

 

[LadyWolverine]

What I love about UW is, when I select only hematology questions (only path/pharm, unchecking the immuno and micro boxes), and I get about 4 questions about anti-retroviral drugs that have nothing to do with heme.

 

[blondemed]

yeah, world is great for that too. I think they have a weird classification system for question domains - I got a bunch of renal questions in genitourinary despite there being a separate category for renal ... sigh

 

[tacrum43]

Yeah...I've decided to basically not use the UW pharm. I think (hope?) that the real USMLE pharm questions won't be as ridiculously detailed.

I've also heard the Biochem section is way too hard also. (Again, I hope).

When I come across a UW question that I actually *know* the answer to, I feel weird and begin to doubt myself because it seems too obvious.

Yeah...kind of rambling now. Test in t-minus 56 hours for me.

 

[rox]

UW Pharm questions are way unbelievable.

 

[CoolMusic]

Is the general consensus that UWorld pharm and biochem aren't good representations of the real thing? I also have USMLEConsult and Kaplan Q-book, so I am considering skipping those 2 sections in World, and doing the questions in Consult and Q-book instead. Any thoughts?