Top 200 Tricks

[milkchocolate]

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So we have our Top 200 Exam comming up next month and I was wondering if anyone had any good tricks to memorizing them based on the names of the drugs themselves? For example, Premarin is made from horse urine while Lasix "last six hours."

 

[delano2000]

So we have our Top 200 Exam comming up next month and I was wondering if anyone had any good tricks to memorizing them based on the names of the drugs themselves? For example, Premarin is made from horse urine while Lasix "last six hours."

Can I just say that I am so glad that we learn these over the course of semester and not having to memorize them all at once is a blessing.

 

[Hello2011]

Can I just say that I am so glad that we learn these over the course of semester and not having to memorize them all at once is a blessing.

Our 10 week semester has us tested on the top 50 at the end of the third week and every friday after that 25 more until we're at 200. It's so easy that way. 25 is nothing especially after you get 3 weeks for the top 50 and then the classes and uses start appearing over and over.

 

[delano2000]

Our 10 week semester has us tested on the top 50 at the end of the third week and every friday after that 25 more until we're at 200. It's so easy that way. 25 is nothing especially after you get 3 weeks for the top 50 and then the classes and uses start appearing over and over.

Ours gets broken up into the different classes and we learn about the SE, MOA, indications, major interactions and consultation points and then we get tested on the different classes every week. Ours is structured like this because we start IPPEs next semester.

 

[milkchocolate]

Thats so smart. I wish they did that for us too since we start out IPPEs at the end of next semester. I feel like I'm struggling because I work in an inpatient clinic so I typically don't see most of these drugs.

 

[delano2000]

Thats so smart. I wish they did that for us too since we start out IPPEs at the end of next semester. I feel like I'm struggling because I work in an inpatient clinic so I typically don't see most of these drugs.

The way I study them is by grouping. If you know a lot about the group then you can apply it to most of the drugs in that group. Some minor details might vary but it still works.

BTW, are you learning only brand/generic names or all the SE, interactions, indications and MOA for the top 200

 

[milkchocolate]

That is what I've tried to do is organize them according to their therapeutic class. We're tested on brand/generics and their class...which is overwhelming at the moment because we don't even learn the mechanisms till next year! When do you guys learn mechanisms?

 

[owlegrad]

It is tough for sure. It helps to pickup on the common endings. zole, pril, olol, etc.

The only easy way is to know the brand/generic is in advance.

 

[delano2000]

That is what I've tried to do is organize them according to their therapeutic class. We're tested on brand/generics and their class...which is overwhelming at the moment because we don't even learn the mechanisms till next year! When do you guys learn mechanisms?

We already started learning the mechanisms. Like Owle said, the suffices will sometimes help with the generics of drugs in the same class but not the brands. No real trick to memorizing those.

 

[owlegrad]

We already started learning the mechanisms. Like Owle said, the suffices will sometimes help with the generics of drugs in the same class but not the brands. No real trick to memorizing those.

Some brand names are pretty cool. Glucophage comes to mind. But yeah, no easy way to learn them, its straight up memorization.