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| Pharmcards: Review Cards for Medical Students | 
 enlarge | Authors: Eric C. Johannsen, Marc S. Sabatine
Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
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Customer Ratings:  6 comments
Media: Cards
Edition: 3rd
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Pages: 244
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Dimensions (inch): 6.2 x 4.2 x 2.3
ISBN: 0781766087
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9780781766081
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
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 Step 1 mut have May 26, 2008
For me this has been the best way to remember and start to understand all the drugs. I used these for step-1 but I wish I wuld have had them for my first two years of med school. Still use them in my 3rd and 4rth years. Very good depth and detail, but still managable and easy to comprehend.
great resource April 22, 2007
3 out of 3 found this comment useful.
There's a third edition out now (as of 2007), and I highly recommend these cards as a study-aid. Compared to some other pharm cards I've seen, these are not actually that crammed with text. They hit all the important points for each drug, have very useful tables, mechanism pictures, and groupings of drugs on the back side of many of the cards, which break up the text nicely without overwhelming the user with non-board relevant material.
 They are ok but too much detail March 30, 2007
5 out of 5 found this comment useful.
I started my second year using these cards and they were helpful but they still have too much information. The problem is that similar drugs are grouped together in one card despite being indicated for different conditions which made them hard to study for class where you need to know the specific side effects of each one. As a Board review-there is alot more than what you really need- I would stick to using the First Aid and Kaplan Pharm instead.
excellent source December 8, 2006
1 out of 2 found this comment useful.
I liked it much more than Katzung. in my opinion pharmcards are concise and explain concepts better.
 Excellent resource, but not without its flaws June 20, 2005
38 out of 39 found this comment useful.
This enormous stack of cards is organized alphabetically by generic drug name, with the addition of some schematic/ drug classes cards. Each specific drug card lists the mechanism, clinical applications, resistance (if applicable), side effects, contraindications, metabolism, interactions with other drugs, and misc. notes. The other side of the card depicts the structure, and any other pictures that facilitate understanding of the mechanism or the drug's site of action. The cards have good organization of the facts and clear pictures (though I am NOT memorizing those structures!), and it seems that all the most important information is there and accurate.
A major drawback of these cards is with the indexing. For example, I was trying to look up each drug as I encountered it in my First Aid review book:
First Aid lists 5 drugs that act on microtubules, the first is mebendazole, so I tried looking that up ... mebendazole is not found in the M cards, and not in the index under "M", so I go to the antimicrobial schema card, since FA says the drug's an anti-helminthic, I don't see mebendazole, but "helminthicides" is listed ... so then I look up "helminthicides" in index, flip to card 100, see a "mebendazole" box on that card, NOW I can learn about it ... (if I didn't know what class mebendazole fit in, I probably wouldn't have found it).
As you can see, this can be a time-consuming process! Still, I recommend using these cards alongside your review books rather than delving right into the stack alone without a contextual framework. They are a good, portable resource, and less intimidating if you tackle them a few cards at a time.
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