Tuesday, March 23, 2010

There is a Ton of Toxicology

I’m a little overwhelmed with the amount of information we’re expected to know about toxicology. We just started this class halfway through the semester (it started after pharmacology ended.) And, wow! We thought we had to know a lot about pharmacology (drug names, mechanisms of action, significant side effects, contraindications, general category of disease affected) but toxicology seems like so much more!

Both classes do weekly quizzes (I think mostly to force us to keep up with the information.) In pharmacology, each quiz would cover maybe 3-4 pages of the notes that I make from lecture. In toxicology, the first quiz covers 20 pages of condensed information (and 60 of the note set, which is about 600 powerpoint slides of information!)

I’m trying to keep about 15 heavy metals and 10 pesticides straight (for just this quiz!) with respect to names, forms, pathogenesis, organ system most affected, animal most affected, lesions and treatment.

It’s just a lot of information!

2 comments:

kberg said...

I'm kind of panicking now...

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