Learning the top 200 drugs will help a person to know about the basic details of the drug. Since they will be the ones commonly prescribed to treat most of the common pathologic medical conditions.
Step-by-step explanation:
Knowledge of top 200 drugs will help a person to:
- Match with brand and generic names
- Watchful of dosage and prevent under or over dosing
- Aware of adverse side effect
- Role of the drug in the treatment and its necessity
- Interactions of the drug
The basic methods to learn drug names:
- Breaking the drug name structurally
- Knowing drug class
- Learning by the suffix attached
- Recall methods.
Tools: like drug list, flashcards, app games and tools, drug manual, etc can be used to learn drug names.