very close to my test....need an advice regarding my weakest area of all....

[MyNameIsAlex]

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hi,

im really close to my test, doing well on practice tests (66-72% on UW)...
but i have one big issue..... i cant memorize the antibiotics... i keep them wrong all the time on UW..and ijust never found the time to memorize them inside out.... anybody has any advice how to approach this? there seems to be so much info on those... even just in FA.

 

[braluk]

Run through Micro made ridiculously simple section on the antibiotics. For example "CLEAN TAG" has been a good jumpoff point to learn which antibiotics do what.

 

[Gute]

Just memorize the hell out of them the day or 2 before the test. I only had a couple questions on antibiotics, but you could easily get burned with a antibiotic heavy test.

 

[str8flexed]

Use as many mnemonics as possible, and try to visualize and associate a person with traits...

Also, using flashcards is a great way to memorize things that you can't. Just keep flipping through them, taking cards out as you know them, and keeping cards in that you don't know. I like to place them on a table into several groups, sometimes just all laid out. If I have extremely difficult ones I can never remember, I place them off to the side so I can look at them every several cards instead of having to wait for the entire stack to go through again. Or I'll insert it just several cards back in the stack instead of putting it at the end so it comes again sooner.

 

[Captopril]

FA antibiotics makes it a breeze. Learn the mnemonics + that sexy little protein synthesis diagram

 

[ucsfstudents]

1. Use flashcards
2. Review a % of those flashcards daily; set aside the ones you get wrong, and review that set daily too
3. Use mnemonics that you've made up yourself
4. set aside time a few days before the actual exam to brute memorize them
5. MMRS is helpful when you're starting your studying. but if some parts are helpful now, please do use them. they're great for mnemonics.

Good luck.🙂

 

[aequanimitas11]

I am horrible at memorizing but I ended up doing well with the antibiotics. I used flashcards for about a month and they were very helpful. However, during the test, I found myself using a lot of the mnemonics from First Aid during the real test, and still think about them some during rotations. I think you should review some mnemonics now but then really push for some serious memorization a couple days out from the test.