Excellent Q & A and rationales for course exams and USMLE Step 1

With 1,000+ board-style questions/answers and fully up-to-date content, this is the most popular review in pharmacology. Organized to reflect the syllabi in pharmacology courses, Katzung & Trevor's Pharmacology Exam and Board Review covers all current drugs and retrovirals, immunologic agents, and chemotherapies. Each chapter begins with 20 pages of informative text, followed by questions and answers, and includes concise discussions of the concepts underlying basic principles or specific drug groups. Edited by the world leading figures in pharmacology and medicine, this high-yield text focuses on basic principles, autonomic drugs, cardiovascular-renal drugs, and drugs with actions on smooth muscle, central nervous system drugs, and drugs used to treat chemotherapeutic drugs, and toxicology.

Features

• 180 photos and illustrations—including explanatory figures and tables, and overview diagrams that visually organize drug groups and concepts
• 1,000+ board-review type questions
• Two 100-question exams with answers and explanations for the correct answers
• Four-color design enhances the study process
• Rationales to the Examination 1 and Examination 2 Questions
• List of high-yield terms and definitions
• Skill Keeper Questions that help you understand the connections of related topics
• Checklist of tasks help readers master topics before moving on to the next
• Summary tables that provide key information about specific drug mechanisms of action and effects, clinical uses, pharmacokinetics, drug interactions, and toxicities
• Test-taking strategies for improving your test performance