resources for a p1 student?

[dalat16]

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Hi All,

As a first year, I was wondering if fellow SDN members could give websites/resources to help me in my studies? For example, where is a good tutorial to memorize the top 200 drugs? What is a good website for pharmacy calculations problems? etc. Thanks.

 

[MR. C]

I have another one to add..

Is there a site that will pronounce the drugs for you? I know drugs.com has the phonetic spelling, and my drug cards do also.. but in some cases they dont match up.

 

[b*rizzle]

Hi All,

As a first year, I was wondering if fellow SDN members could give websites/resources to help me in my studies? For example, where is a good tutorial to memorize the top 200 drugs? What is a good website for pharmacy calculations problems? etc. Thanks.

Tutorial for learning drugs? Not that I've come across. The best experience I've gotten for learning the top 200 drugs has been, and I feel will always continue to be, job experience. I don't feel that you can expect to "memorize" the drugs and the facts associated with them without any context, because they just won't stick. (Trust me, I have quite a capacity for memorizing, and I rarely remember it after I get through the test.) You need to learn them. If you learn through experience and practice, you won't forget. Otherwise you need to just stick to those drug cards.

I don't know of a website for calculations problems, but I can recommend a textbook: Pharmaceutical Calculations by Ansel and Stocklosa. Our lab instructor made us buy it for our care lab first year, and I felt it did a relatively decent job of explaining the basics.

Hope this helps 👍

 

[Aznfarmerboi]

Your main resources will mostly come from your school library or a nearby library of medicine. At home, it will be your textbooks such as Dipiro or Rubins path. There are rarely any sites out there that help you professional wise to learn (reason why your professor is there). The expensive sites are microdex and lexicom (thomsonhc.com and crlonline.com), but may be free if you are on campus. In addition, resources and supplemental readings can be found on pubmed, catologs, cdc, fda, etc.

 

[b*rizzle]

Your main resources will mostly come from your school library or a nearby library of medicine. At home, it will be your textbooks such as Dipiro or Rubins path. There are rarely any sites out there that help you professional wise to learn (reason why your professor is there). The expensive sites are microdex and lexicom (thomsonhc.com and crlonline.com), but may be free if you are on campus. In addition, resources and supplemental readings can be found on pubmed, catologs, cdc, fda, etc.

Not to mention that the internet is SUCH a reliable source for information (excluding Lexi-Comp, etc...)

I had a guy come into work today and tell me that he read online somewhere that Dr. Scholl's Wart Remover is an acceptable treatment for getting rid of genital warts as I rang him up for his Aldara.

Not really on topic but an interesting point just the same...

 

[sleazye]

I have another one to add..

Is there a site that will pronounce the drugs for you? I know drugs.com has the phonetic spelling, and my drug cards do also.. but in some cases they dont match up.

From Umich's med chem page:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/medchemlibrary/files/genericnames.html

I'm not sure if all the links are accessable but it may help you with some of them.

 

[dalat16]

thanks everyone for the responses. Good luck to all other first years!

 

[meg]

Free clinical toolkit at www.pharmacyonesource.com

 

[tornado]

For first year calculations we always were assigned the odd problems, so I'd do the evens as well if I thought I needed the extra practice.

For the med chem classes, especially the first 2, I found this site to be helpful :

http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/

 

[bva]

For organic chemistry:

http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/intro1.htm

 

[sleazye]

From Univ of Arizona for Amino Acid and general biochem practice:

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/problem_sets/aa/aa.html