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Illustrated Pharmacology Memory Cards: PharMnemonics
Illustrated Pharmacology Memory Cards: PharMnemonics
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Howard Shen
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Product Details

  • Author: Howard Shen
  • Binding: Cards
  • EAN: 9781595411013
  • ISBN: 1595411011
  • Label: Minireview
  • Manufacturer: Minireview
  • Number of Items: 1
  • Number of Pages: 282
  • Product Group: Book
  • Publication Date: 2007-02-16
  • Publisher: Minireview
  • Release Date: 2007-02-16
  • Studio: Minireview
  • Title: Illustrated Pharmacology Memory Cards: PharMnemonics
Avg Customer Rating: 4 stars

Product Description: This set of 282 PharMnemonics cards is carefully designed to make medical pharmacology fun to learn and easy to memorize. First of all, major drug names or class stems are linked to drug actions with mnemonics, humor and illustrations. This turns a "clueless" drug name into a vivid visual cue for easy recall of drug actions and quick recognition of drug classification. Secondly, along with the action-linked visual mnemonics, mechanisms of action are explained sufficiently with detailed diagrams. Thirdly, drug uses, interactions and side effects are summarized concisely in an outline format and ALSO made memorable with numerous mnemonics and illustrations. Finally, some key points of drugs are presented with tables and even highlighted with Dr. Bright's Hint, a special mnemonic form mostly expressed as a brief conversation. Organized systematically, each topic starts with an overview card that has a list of drugs on the front and an integrated diagram illustrating the sites of action on the back. This provides the reader a comprehensive yet clear big picture for drug classification and rationales of drug therapy. It is updated with the latest drugs and drug classes, such as GLP-1 agonists and DPP-4 inhibitors used for treating type II diabetes mellitus. Also, it has an appendix listing commonly used trade names. This set of PharMnemonics cards is intended to serve as an excellent memory aid in medical pharmacology review, either for the courses or the board exams. It is suitable for anyone who wants to learn and memorize medical pharmacology with ease and fun.


Customer Reviews


3 stars helpful, but not complete
These flashcards are helpful for a drug that one just cannot seem to remember, but this is not a comprehensive set. I recommend students make their own pharm flashcards and their own pneumonics.


5 stars The best review flash card for step 1
I bought it from Amazon 4 month ago. It's amazing! Pharmacology becomes so interesting to remember!


2 stars Decent cards sub par mnemonics
The cards have useful information but I had picked this brand hoping the mnemonics would help me remember the drug names. For a vast majority of them it feels like the authors spent about 2 minutes coming up with a sentence with the drug name and function in it and a minute drawing a picture to go along with it. They are not funny, interesting, or unique and don't help in any way to remember the drug functions. From classes like Gross Anatomy I have learned all kinds of acronyms and phrases to help remember names and function and I am sure there are ways to do it with pharmacology if some effort was put in. Once again get these cards if you are looking for plain pharm cards but don't let the mnemonics influence your decision to pick these cards over another brand.


5 stars Great Asset!
I've never been able to do well in pharmacology. These cards have made a significant differenct though! They use simple pictures and mneumonics to help remember the countless drugs, mechanisms and side effects. These are a necessity for any medical student.


2 stars disappointed
I bought these cards on amazon after reading all the positive reviews but they fell far short of expectations. Overall I found the cards more distracting and taxing to memorize than my course notes. Most of the memorization tricks are really random and consist of paragraph stories with randomly bolded letters. For example: for the drugs tolbutamide and chlorpropamide the "memory sentence" is this: as a TOOL BOOK, this COLORed PRO PAM is IDEal for the closing of K atp channel.
Some of the cards even require you to learn NEW words ie: for amphotericin you have to learn that an amphora is a tall jar. Now granted, it is difficult to come up with pneumonics for every drug out there but
some drugs aren't represented at all ie: hypothalamic/pituitary drugs, dermatology.
I did find some cartoons so odd that I actually remember a couple on the day of exam. But when all the cards are that random, it defeats the purpose. That said, there's no easy way to learn pharm and it is less time consuming than making your own cards. I actually have no other flashcard sets to compare these to, so sadly, these MAY be the best out there. But if I were to memorize something, I'd spend less time memorizing cartoons along with the stories behind them and spend more time actually learning the mechanisms...at least THEN you'll save some time when you get to biochem.