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Should I study pharm before internship?
Started by David Hasselhof
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Make sure your Epocrates is up to date and make sure you know the phone number to your hospitals pharmacy. BOth bailed me out more times than I can count. Beyond that I don't think I'd study anything special. Doesn't pay to SPend too much time with pharm texts only to learn about a lot of meds your hospital might not even stock on formulary. Other than whatever BLS/ACLS you program requires I'd probably plan to just learn on the job.
Sounds good, thanks for the response.
I'll just be a prelim resident and in my future field I most likely won't be writing any scripts. I just want to be an efficient intern and not cause too many problems 🙂
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From your posting history, looks like your future field is radiology, in which case you might be covering IR in-patient admissions and doing procedures on outpatients who can have pain and other complications. I wouldn't hang up the script pad just yet. Off the top of my head, only pathologists can probably get away with not ever writing scripts (and even that I'm only guessing).
Hydralazine. Labetalol. Sliding scale insulin. You've effectively covered the majority of your floor calls 😉. Throw in Tylenol, Percocet, morphine, dilaudid and Ativan and you'll be alright 😛!
Use micromedex or lexicomp (a bit expensive if you have to pay for it). I would not recommend epocrates. Go to mylan website and get their free brand/generic pocket manual. You will have to know brand names now. This book is just that and quick and easy.
