Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThis revised sixth edition provides an excellent review of pharmacology for students preparing for the USMLE Step 1. The book concisely reviews key material emphasized on the National Board Examinations and highlights specific drugs, their general properties, mechanisms of action, pharmacologic effects. Drug lists, tables, and figures summarize essential drug information included in all chapters. You will discover: updated drug lists plus easy to find tables and helpful illustrations will explain the essentials drug information you need to know, Each chapter is written in the popular Board Review Series outline format and features bolded key terms to streamline your study, Over 280 USMLE-style questions, answers, and rationales both electronically and in print reinforce your pharmacology review, A Free companion website offers fully searchable text, including images, and an interactive question bank with all the questions from the book so you can customize your review tests and study on the go! Book jacket., BRS Pharmacology is designed for medical students, dental students, and other students preparing to enter the health care professions. It is intended primarily to help students prepare for licensing examinations, such as the USMLE, but can be used for course review or as a supplementary text. This book presents succint descriptions of how drugs act on the major body systems, providing readers with vital information without overloading them with extraneous details. Written with a body systems approach, the book begins with a chapter devoted to the general principles of drug mechanisms, and continues with chapters that detail how drugs act on the major body systems. Other chapters discuss numerous popular drugs, like autocoids, ergots, anti-inflammatory drugs, and immunosuppresive agents. Readers will also learn about drugs used to treat anemia, disorders of hemostatis, infectious diseases, and cancer. Additionally, the text covers pharmacological principles associated with toxicology.