Pharm, help!!!

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Hello,

Does anyone have any study tips for pharmacology? please help!

Thanks in advance,

Shavon Cook

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Record the lectures. Listen to them before the next lecture and take more notes. You do miss things you didn't realize. Ask questions to clarify. I did this and it helps a TON.

good luck.

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Consistency and repetition.

Study multiple times throughout the day... better off to have 4 15-minute sessions than one 1-hr session.

Flashcards are your friends

Write out lists over and over and over... especially long-hand.

Read your lists out loud...

Every single night, take a review list to bed with you and spend a few minutes on it right before you fall asleep... and do the same thing again right before you wake up.

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I hated drug cards while in school but I think they are my best friend now. Also I had tons of clinical time so ANY and EVERY drug I gave I made sure I made a drug card and knew why I gave it and any reactions. It really helped to put it into a real life situation.

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Specializes in Critical Care / ICU.

Learn drug classes and their mechanism of action and it will be much easier to understand/see/visualize them in use on tests or in clinical.

For example, the way I studied.

Ace inhibitors - used to treat hypertension, CHF,. - identifiable suffix -prils ( lisinopril, captopril, etc), they inhibit angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), a component of the blood pressure-regulating renin-angiotensin system.

Beta Blockers - identifiable suffix -lol, etc etc

Calcium Channel blockers -

etc

etc

Once you learn them this way it will help you on a test. I struggled with this too, but a pharmacy student helped me study this way and it made alot more sense to me at least.

Good luck...

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Memorize drugs...make your own technique in memorizing them...mnemonics helps alot! This will help you remember drugs name, drug interaction, classification etc and will make your quest in pharmacology enjoyable

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Here are a few tips....tell me your email and I will send you my pharm study guide that I made up and used........good luck...

-ase = thrombolytic

-azepam = benzodiazepine

-azine = antiemetic; phenothiazide

-azole = proton pump inhibitor, antifungal

-barbital = barbiturate

-coxib = cox 2 enzyme blockers

-cep/-cef = anti-infectives

-caine = anesthetics

-cillin = penicillin

-cycline = antibiotic

-dipine = calcium channel blocker

-floxacin = antibiotic

-ipramine = tricyclic antidepressant

-ine = reverse transcriptase inhibitors, antihistamines

-kinase = thrombolytics

-lone, pred- = corticosteroid

-mab = monoclonal antibiotics

-micin = antibiotic, aminoglycoside

-navir = protease inhibitor

nitr-, -nitr- = nitrate/vasodilator

-olol = beta antagonist

-oxin = cardiac glycoside

-osin = alpha blocker

-parin = anticoagulant

-prazole = ppi’s

-phylline = bronchodilator

-pril = ace inhibitor

-statin = cholesterol lowering agent

-sartan = angiotensin ii blocker

-sone = glucocorticoid, corticosteroid

-stigmine = cholinergics

-terol = beta 2 agonist

-thiazide = diuretic

-tidine = antiulcer

-trophin = pituitary hormone

-vir = anti-viral, protease inhibitors

-zosin = alpha 1 antagonist

-zolam = benzo/sedative

-zine = antihistamine

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Unfortunately, pharm is a lot of memorizing. I'm taking advanced pharm now for my msn, and I find flashcards to be helpful. You have to write them within 2 days of your lecture and you'll find you memorize more that way. Other than that, it's repetition. Good luck!

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Here are a few tips....tell me your email and I will send you my pharm study guide that I made up and used........Good luck...

-ase = thrombolytic

-azepam = benzodiazepine

-azine = antiemetic; phenothiazide

-azole = proton pump inhibitor, antifungal

-barbital = barbiturate

-coxib = cox 2 enzyme blockers

-cep/-cef = anti-infectives

-caine = anesthetics

-cillin = penicillin

-cycline = antibiotic

-dipine = calcium channel blocker

-floxacin = antibiotic

-ipramine = Tricyclic antidepressant

-ine = reverse transcriptase inhibitors, antihistamines

-kinase = thrombolytics

-lone, pred- = corticosteroid

-mab = monoclonal antibiotics

-micin = antibiotic, aminoglycoside

-navir = protease inhibitor

nitr-, -nitr- = nitrate/vasodilator

-olol = beta antagonist

-oxin = cardiac glycoside

-osin = Alpha blocker

-parin = anticoagulant

-prazole = PPI’s

-phylline = bronchodilator

-pril = ACE inhibitor

-statin = cholesterol lowering agent

-sartan = angiotensin II blocker

-sone = glucocorticoid, corticosteroid

-stigmine = cholinergics

-terol = Beta 2 Agonist

-thiazide = diuretic

-tidine = antiulcer

-trophin = Pituitary Hormone

-vir = anti-viral, protease inhibitors

-zosin = Alpha 1 Antagonist

-zolam = benzo/sedative

-zine = antihistamine

I'm getting ready to take pharm in the fall would you mind sharing your study guide with me also?

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Specializes in PCU, ICU.

I would love to get it too. I'm in pharm right now and seriously struggling.

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@ 3xmom......please check your email....good luck

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@ tammiemc.....best of luck...please check your email...

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