Top 200 Drugs Memorizing Made Ridiculously Easy (2024-2025 Edition): A Quick PTCB Exam Study Guide: REMEMBER the Top 200 Drugs in ONE WEEK by Professor L (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Many medical, nursing, and pharmacy students think that it is really difficult to remember all the drugs so they say, just memorize whatever you can. There is a way or a "hack" to remember all of the Top 200 Drugs. The best way you can do this is by grouping them based on their use, the organs or systems they affect, and knowing the most commonly used prefixes, roots, and suffixes used in generic names of drugs. What do I mean by that? Here's an example: -afil, a common suffix for drugs like tadalafil (Brand Name: Cialis) and sildenal (Brand Name: Viagra). These drugs fall under the category PDE5 inhibitor or phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor. These are drugs that are used for erectile dysfunction or ED. Another example is -sone, a suffix for a drug called fluticasone. Fluticasone is a corticosteroid. Corticosteroids are anti-inflammatory drugs, so it is safe to make an educated guess during a test that drugs that end in -sone (applies to generic names only) are steroids. Barbiturates, ...

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