Ep 86 Cutting Pharmacology Study Time in Half

Cutting Pharmacology Study Time in Half Find the book here: https://geni.us/iA22iZ or here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B01FSR7HLE/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-059486&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_059486_rh_us and subscribe to TonyPharmD YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/tonypharmd Here is the Link to my Pharmacy Residency Courses: residency.teachable.com In this episode I go over why it takes so much longer to study for pharmacology than other classes and what to do about it. Auto Generated Transcript: Welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I'm Tony Guerra, pharmacist and author of the Memorizing Pharmacology book series, bringing you mnemonics, cases, and advice for succeeding in pharmacology. Sign up for the email list at memorizingfarm.com to get your free suffixes cheat sheet or find our mobile-friendly self-paced online pharmacology review course at residency.teachable.com/p/mobile. Let's get started with the show. Okay, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I just wanted to teach you how to cut your pharmacology studying in half. So before I get started, online pharmacology class is still available. We opened up a second section because it looks like the first section might fill. So just go to DMACC, DMACC and then pharmacology PHR185 is the name of the class or the class number. Okay, so what I want to do is just give you a quick example. So I live in North Ankeny and there is a grocery store HyVee that we go to and then there is also a South Ankeny HyVee. When you go to the North Ankeny HyVee, this is the one I know, this is the one I go to all the time, the groceries are on the left of the building. If I need something that is not grocery, I know it's on the right of the building. But if my kids say, okay, well Dad we're out of milk and orange juice and cheese or something like that, I know to go in the right part of the building. I know to go to the back refrigerator section and if it's just milk I can just go to the registers and I can go to the back right. I can go get what I need and come right back out and be done. On the other Ankeny one, I would have to go all the way to the left side, go all the way to the back left and then come out in the left door. So I just want to give you that quick example because when we talk about pharmacology and why I wrote the book Memorizing Pharmacology: A Relaxed Approach and you know somebody just put a comment on my YouTube video, hey you know thanks for cutting down my study time. That's the whole point of mnemonics is to make it so that your time is much more efficient whether using the second edition or the first edition it doesn't matter. But when people say oh okay well it's just about the endings and the suffixes and things like that, that is incomplete and I want to show you why. Okay so besides the endings and suffixes and things like that, what I'm looking at right now is you can go online look on Amazon and this is the free preview of the book and when you look at GI for example and we're going to start with too much acid. The first thing you would give somebody or something somebody would take is they just go to over-the-counter and just get some antacids and they take those and that would reduce the amount of acid in their stomach. Okay, the next thing they would go to is an H2 blocker. That is a little bit more potent, it's going to last quite a bit longer than an antacid. It can be taken on a regular basis maybe two weeks if somebody is having chronic acid or chronic GERD or chronic reflux. And then if they were to go into a situation where they were actually going to be treated with antibiotics and an acid reducer, it's more likely you would get a proton pump inhibitor. Now yes I talk about the endings. The generic antacids are actually the same chemical name as generic names kind of unique in the way they do that. And what we do is we put calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide one is constipating one causes diarrhea we put those opposite each other and we put them in a pair. Then for histamines we have cimetidine which is the first one that came out has all of the side effects and then famotidine which has many fewer side effects which is the newer one and then it has that new Zantac brand name in addition to Pepcid. And then we go to our proton pump inhibitors esomeprazole and omeprazole you know the S and R if you need to get into that in your particular pharmacology class where you have the right hand and left hand but more important thing is that it is in an order. So in same way that I would go into HyVee in North Ankeny HyVee and if I need to go get dairy and maybe a card for someone I would go into right side of store and then I would go into back right of store but then if I know I need to get like a frozen pizza or something I would know I'd go to middle of store and then if I need to go get some dessert or something like that back left of store If I needed to get some crab rangoons, ...