What's an effective way to learn which organisms each antimicrobial drug covers?

[Lord_Vader]

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In FA there are at least 5 or 6 organisms mentioned to be covered by each antibiotic and so if you add all of this up it becomes an astounding amount of information to memorize. Is there any effective way to learn these coverages? To me the organisms each antimicrobial drug covers seem completely random at times. I've considered using something like picmonic to learn this but I'm not sure if that would be more effective than flash cards or another method.

 

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

Instead of memorizing which bugs each drug treats, which is undoubtedly an exhausting task, try grouping those bugs into categories (gram positive vs. negative coverage, rods vs cocci coverage), etc.. You already have to know each bug's shape and staining characteristics, so the next step is to mentally group the treatments. Of course, DOCs and preferred treatments are important.

I don't know how helpful Picmonic would be for this, but I for one wouldn't spend the money to find out.

 

[Transposony]

In FA there are at least 5 or 6 organisms mentioned to be covered by each antibiotic and so if you add all of this up it becomes an astounding amount of information to memorize. Is there any effective way to learn these coverages? To me the organisms each antimicrobial drug covers seem completely random at times. I've considered using something like picmonic to learn this but I'm not sure if that would be more effective than flash cards or another method.

What's different , what's unique............

 

[Jabbed]

TBH if you know the drug's MOA and indications and the bacterial characteristics in FA it almost become self-explanatory