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PharmCards: Review Cards for Medical Students Card Deck 300 Cards Cards – 23 December 2009

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Now in its Fourth Edition, PharmCards is the best-selling card-based pharmacology review for medical and allied health students. The 300-card set presents both ///Thirty-Fourthfundamental///Thirty-Fourth and organ system-specific information for specific drugs using a standard format. This edition features a new two-color design and more than 150 two-color images. Topic selection is based on the medical pharmacology curriculum determined by the National Board of Medical Examiners. http://thepoint.lww.com/product/isbn/9780781787413

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0781787416
ISBN-13

978-0781787413
Edition

4th
Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins USA
Publication date

23 December 2009
Language

English
Dimensions

11.68 x 7.37 x 15.75 cm
Print length

600 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins USA; 4th edition (23 December 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Cards ‏ : ‎ 600 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0781787416
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0781787413
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.68 x 7.37 x 15.75 cm

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PeterNguyen

Awesome step1 review

Reviewed in Canada on 17 January 2013

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Pros:
1. each flash card has pretty much everything you'd need
2. Diagrams if the mechanisms on the back of most cards are good for flow chart learners.
3. Shipped to my door in 5 days

Cons:
Unfortunately it should come with a better box

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Pratibha Samantroy

Very good set of cards

Reviewed in the United States on 5 December 2012

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I had ordered Lange cards first because i thought it will be closer to Katzung textbook ( since i am studying Katzung ) but they were not
Ther good in a way because they have clinical cases...but I would recommend these flashcards for students who need detailed explanations and are not happy with short cuts
I agree there is way too much information but they r really good....and surprisingly they co relate perfectly with Katzung Textbook and made my life easier .. i don't have to make extra notes now....

My suggestion would be to have a look before ordering them...you might/might not like it

for me, it works perfectly...I am very happy that i trusted my instincts and got them

they also have diagrams for Mechanism of actions which are very helpful especially for in chapters which are confusing....for example - dyslipidemia.
the diagrams are clear and not clustered ...which makes it very easy to understand

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スプラッシュ

usmle step1にどうぞ！

Reviewed in Japan on 19 May 2010

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いわゆる暗記ノートみたいなものです。少し使ってみての感想を述べます。

第3版との変更点。
'1.重要な部分がボールドになっている。
'2.第3版は黒単色であったが、今回は黒と青との2色刷なので、見やすい。
'3.紙質がつるつるになっている。

内容的には前回とあまり変わらないようであるが、使い勝手が明らかに向上しているのでストレスなく
勉強できると思う。中身はそこそこ詳しいことまで書いてあります。ただ、はじめて薬理を学ぶ人にはお薦めはしません。
たぶん理解できないと思う。初学者は、katzung basic and clinical pharmacologyの原書又は翻訳版がお薦めです。
それと、日本の国試対策用としてはまったく使えません。（そもそも日本の国試では詳しい薬の作用なんて問われません。）
usmleを受ける人や勉強が好きで余力がある人だけ購入してはどうでしょうか？
1日3枚で3ヶ月弱で終わります。

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Imran Khaliq

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on 27 March 2017

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good

MD19

All the main points, and then some — use as a refresher

Reviewed in the United States on 9 February 2017

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I've been working my way through these as a refresher in advance of my school's dedicated Step 1 study period. They start off with several cards reviewing basic pharmacodynamics (equations for volume of distribution, half-life, etc.) and then a set of drug class cards (quick way to review mechanisms of, say, all the important antimicrobial drugs or all the anticoagulants). The rest of the deck is individual drug flashcards organized by system (e.g. all the cardiovascular drugs are grouped together).

The individual drug cards contain all the key points you've had to memorize during coursework — mechanism of action, clinical indications, side effects, and even contraindications. There is a lot of information packed into each card, so the authors have used boldface and italics to point out the absolute basics. For example, the ACE inhibitor card bolds "arteriolar and venous dilator" in the Mechanism section. That's the basic effect boiled way down (obviously, the mechanism we all learn is inhibition of ACE... obviously). However, the rest of the Mechanism section also talks about renin, angiotensin II, bradykinin, etc. Similarly, the nitroglycerin card goes into detail explaining why the drug causes predominantly venodilation instead of arteriolar dilation. This is ancillary information, but it's nice to have. I also caution that some of the material that is NOT in boldface or italics could still be high-yield for boards. The digoxin card emphasizes AV node blockade in Side Effects but quietly mentions the characteristic yellowish visual halos.

As a final plus point, these seem fairly up to date. Some of the drugs included here, such as aliskiren, are quite new and still under clinical investigation. Obviously, over time these will become outdated, but I trust new editions will be released on a regular basis.

The drawback of PharmCards is the volume of information. These aren't completely stripped down to Step 1 info only, like what you find in First Aid. Instead, these have sections talking about metabolism, reasons for specific features, uncommon clinical uses, related drugs that I've never heard of (but also related drugs that are probably important to know, e.g. diltiazem is mentioned as a related drug on the verapamil card)... and so on. If you're the sort of person who can't parse a block of information without spending a lot of time getting caught in details, you may want to avoid these and stick to bookmarking the pharmacology section in each First Aid chapter.

Here's how I would suggest using these (and this is what I'm currently doing): do a first pass through, reading each card but glossing over material that you know is low-yield (who wants to memorize the CYP that's responsible for metabolizing ranolazine? Anyone? Anyone?). Then, during boards study, flip through some cards each morning, paying attention only to the bold and italics. Supplement with First Aid, obviously — that way you won't miss anything that's high-yield but not in boldface/italics (e.g. the aforementioned visual changes with digoxin).

In summary, these are a great review resource. Just make sure they aren't your sole pharmacology learning resource. As any medical student knows, it's important to curate the info and make sure at least one of your resources is hitting you in the face with any given high-yield point. In other words, use these to refresh your memory, not to help you figure out whether metabolic acidosis + respiratory alkalosis is an important presentation of aspirin overdose or just a minor curiosity (FYI: yeah, it's important).

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