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Dewey Decimal Number: 615.1071 EAN: 9780632045853 Edition: 1st ISBN: 063204585X Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: December 15, 2001 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Visual Mnemonics for Pharmacology offers cartoon drawings plus high yield review content - just the book you need! "Concept diagramming" links basic science ideas with memorable visual aids. Each drawing captures a great deal of information. Formatted with plenty of space for notes and reminders, the illustrations can be colored to further enhance memory. Laurie Marbas, a third year medical student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center created this series to learn the concepts. Many of her classmates also used these drawings and reported improved test scores. Perfect for medical students -- physician assistants, nurse practitioners and related health professionals will also find Visual Mnemonics valuable. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - It's awesomeI pass step 1,2. I'm ready for my residency and I still use it. Every time I get confused with meds name or don't remember the family; I go in my brain and look for the pictures. This book really works. Rating: - Amazingly effectiveAt first i was doubting the ability of the book to "work" but after i just glanced at the book, flipped through some pages reading some stuff My friend asked me about it a couple of hours later and i could actually recall some of the stuff in it! This is a MUST for all those over-worked tired medical students! Apart from it being fun to read it actually works! This is how i passed and excelled at pharmacology, could not have done it without this book! Well worth it. Rating: - I found this book very helpfulI have found this book and the others in the series very helpful. I am a very visual learner and have found the illustrations easy to recall if I put the time and effort into memorizing them. The pictures are linked together in a thoughtful and logical manner. For example, an entire class of antibiotics is placed on one page which makes them very easy to remember. There is also a notes page opposite the illustrations for anything additional that I want to add. This is a very different method ... Read More Rating:  - a VERY disappointing purchaseI made the mistake of purchasing this book along with the pathology and microbiology books in this series. The concept of having a mnemonics book for a subject such as pharmacology is an excellent one. In my opinion, mnemonics are an amazing way to learn subjects that typically require great memorization (e.g. microbiology and pharmacology). Anyone who has read Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple probably knows how helpful visual mnemonics can be. The problem with this book and the ... Read More Rating: - Great way to remember pharm factsI think this book is for the visual learner, like me, who hates to sit and memorize facts off a sheet of paper. Others who are not visual learners may find the cartoons useful at all, but I would certainly say they were very helpful to me. 
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