Pharmacology learning basic tips

• Pharmacology is a very volatile subject. So, the first rule is revise, revise and revise. No chance that you can grasp it in a single reading. 
• Understand concepts thoroughly wherever it is present (Autonomic nervous system is an example); you need to mug up wherever it is absent.
• While trying to remember classification, try to associate an important property of that drug. Like while remembering all H2 blockers, remember cimetidine has maximum CYP inhibition. 
• Mnemonics will help only if you can remember them. I would suggest mnemonics to something like adverse effects of PHENYTOIN. But not for remembering atypical antipsychotics per se. 
• Clinical correlation: if you are in clinical postings and happen to see a drug in bedside or someone prescribing a drug you don't know. Come back and read about it. Correlate and store it as an associative memory. (Yeah that's the best form of memory) 
• Make a notes of any kind of your comfort. But make it and use it for revision.

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