Pharmacology Examination & Board Review (Lange Medical Books)

From the authors of pharmacology's #1 textbook, Katzung & Trevor's Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, Twelfth Edition, this review delivers a clear, concise review of fundamental concepts backed by more than 1,000 review questions and answers. The chapter-based approach facilitates use with course notes or larger texts.

Outstanding learning aids include:

• Short discussion of the major concepts that underlie basic principles or specific drug groups
• Explanatory figures and tables
• Review questions followed by answers and explanations
• Drug trees in drug-oriented chapters that visually organize drug groups
• A list of high-yield terms and definitions you need to know
• Skill Keeper Questions that prompt you to review previous material to understand links between related topics
• A checklist of tasks you should be able to perform upon completion of a chapter
• Summary tables that list the important drugs and include key information about their mechanisms of action, effects, clinical uses, pharmacokinetics, drug interactions, and toxicities
• Two comprehensive 100-question examinations followed by the correct answers and rationales
• Valuable test-taking strategies for improving your test performance