Step 1 Pharmacology study methods

[Dwight Snoot]

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What is the best way to study pharm for step 1? I know there is no single answer but I am kind of lost on where to start. Any advice is appreciated!

 

[mybluedog]

Sketchy pharm 100%

 

[efle]

If you hate yourself sufficiently, anki.

If you're too lazy for that like I was, watch SketchyPharm a couple times and then supplement with first aid

 

[libertyyne]

lol not a cop deck /zanki

 

[7331poas]

Sketchy pharm 100%

Zanki pharm. dont bother with the videos.

 

[Dwight Snoot]

Zanki pharm. dont bother with the videos.

Do you actually try to learn the sketches in zanki? I feel like the only way for those to be useful would be watching the videos.

 

[wanderingorion]

The pepper deck was pretty good. I generally watched the videos once (early in term), then did the cards over time. It takes a little while, but it will stick.

 

[FindersFee5]

Sketchy pharm + the lolnotacop anki deck! Watch a video at 2x speed, then go through the cards to catch anything you missed, and keep doing the cards forever! Also try to imagine the picture whenever you do the cards to help you remember the whole thing. The more you can space it out and study consistently the better, keep reviewing these cards until step 1 comes. Trying to understand drug mechanisms also helps you with physiology and pathology.

Literally sketchy pharm + anki cards + that one diagram in FA about antibiotic MOAs (because I could never remember those) got me 95% correct in UWorld pharm.

 

[FindersFee5]

Zanki pharm. dont bother with the videos.

Disagree. Watching the video helps all those hooks stick - the narrative they give is super important (or it was for me at least, although I'm very story driven).

 

[7331poas]

Disagree. Watching the video helps all those hooks stick - the narrative they give is super important (or it was for me at least, although I'm very story driven).

We will have to agree to disagree. I think sketchy micro is pretty good. The Sketchy pharm has a drastic decrease in quality. Anki alone is good enough to know all the drugs

 

[mybluedog]

Sketchy pharm + the lolnotacop anki deck! Watch a video at 2x speed, then go through the cards to catch anything you missed, and keep doing the cards forever! Also try to imagine the picture whenever you do the cards to help you remember the whole thing. The more you can space it out and study consistently the better, keep reviewing these cards until step 1 comes. Trying to understand drug mechanisms also helps you with physiology and pathology.

Literally sketchy pharm + anki cards + that one diagram in FA about antibiotic MOAs (because I could never remember those) got me 95% correct in UWorld pharm.

Do you find that the lol deck to be complete with the sketchypharm vids?

 

[stickgirl390]

Which deck is better to go along with sketchy pharm: pepper or lolnotacop? Do you guys have links for those?

 

[MedScat]

I personally think the lolnotacop deck is better and more complete. This is the link where i downloaded it from

lolnotacop deck

I also think the sketchy videos are important to watch. I watch them on 2x speed and get through them pretty quickly but its such a valuable resource. I can literally recall a cat in the sketch for catalase positive or an amp in a sketch to know its treated with ampicillin when I'm trying to recall information. To have that visual connection is better than just trying to cold recall. I don't even consider myself a visual learner and I think they are valuable.

 

[Aerus]

Another +1 for SketchyPharm and Lolnotacop deck. Pepper/Zanki pharm is fine as well. Just make sure you watch SketchyPharm. You will save a lot of time for pharm later on, even if it takes awhile to learn the pharm earlier on.

 

[Dwight Snoot]

That link to the lolnotacop deck doesn't seem to have that many drugs, is it a complete deck of all the drugs from sketchy?

 

[7331poas]

Make sure you are doing zanki pharm and not the Pepper pharm. The pepper deck is way less complete than zanki. + for lolnotacop. You need to do the entire deck.

 

[MedScat]

That link to the lolnotacop deck doesn't seem to have that many drugs, is it a complete deck of all the drugs from sketchy?

I'm still pretty new to anki but i think the lolnotacop deck is specifically for micro and not all pharm but, that could be wrong. I was under the impression that lolnotacop and pepper were for micro which tends to include a lot of pharm but, not all pharm. Again, this could be wrong...I haven't started studying all pharm for step yet I'm just in my micro block and its been very helpful thus far. Can any else shed light on whether lolnotacop and pepper are specifically for micro if they should include all pharm?

 

[fldoctorgirl]

That link to the lolnotacop deck doesn't seem to have that many drugs, is it a complete deck of all the drugs from sketchy?

Do Zanki pharm. Lolnotacop is for micro more.

 

[mybluedog]

Same, what I understood is
for micro (from experience too) is lolnotacop >>> pepper pharm (just do a few lol cards for a few videos and you'll see the difference)
for pharm (from reading around) zanki pharm > pepper pharm > lol is not complete