How to Memorize Drug Side Effects (While Decreasing Your Study Time)b

I spent so much extra time staring at a textbook or lecture slides with no idea what I should be focusing on, hoping that the knowledge would magically burn itself into my brain. Spoiler alert: That didn't happen.

Clinical, Pharmacy School, Practice, ResidencyBrandon DysonJuly 15, 2017study hack, Studying, how to study for pharmacy tests, how to memorize drug side effects, how to study for pharmacy school, how to remember drug info, pharmacy clinical pearls, drug clinical pearls, pharmacy school, how to study for the NAPLEX

New FDA Approval: Radicava

Drug

Edaravone [Radicava]

Indication

The treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Clinical, FDA Approval, Pharmacy School, PracticeSamuel OhJune 27, 2017FDA approval, edaravone, radicava, edaravone cost, radicava cost, ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, antioxidant

The Complete (but Practical) Guide to Phenytoin Dosing

Today is the day we tackle phenytoin. I want you pumped and ready to take it down. Because it’s a beast even more beastly than the roguish wampa of vancomycin.

Clinical, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon DysonMay 26, 2017phenytoin, gingival hyperplasia, phenytoin dosing, how to dose phenytoin, phenytoin dosing guide, phenytoin dose adjustments, zero order kinetics, pharmacokinetics, phenytoin pharmacokinetics

Seven Figure Pharmacist: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life

If this book was around when I started pharmacy school...it would have prevented me from making several stupid mistakes that tacked years onto my student loan repayments.

Practice, Professional, Pharmacy SchoolBrandon DysonMay 11, 2017seven figure pharmacist, student debt, student loans, student pharmacist, pharmacy student, finances, your financial pharmacist

New FDA Approval: Ingrezza

Drug

Valbenazine [Ingrezza]

Indication

The treatment of adults with tardive dyskinesia.

Clinical, FDA Approval, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon DysonMay 5, 2017valbenazine, ingrezza, ingrezza cost, valbenazine cost, tardive dyskinesia, antipsychotic, first generation antipsychotic, second generation antipsychotic, vmat2 inhibitor, fda approval

Hypercalcemia: An Overview for Pharmacists

Electrolyte disorders is a subject that usually gets filed in the dreaded "learn and dump" part of your brain.

You know that place? Your own personal island of misfit toys where information goes to be forgotten

Clinical, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon DysonApril 21, 2017hypercalcemia, hypercalcemia of malignancy, pamidronate, bisphosphonates, RANKL, RANK, denosumab, zoledronic acid, calcium metabolism, calcium, electrolyte, electrolyte disorders, calcitonin

How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part II

This post explores the more applied concepts such as odds, risk, hazards, and correlation. These concepts are the heart of inferential statistics because they represent different ways of comparing one thing to another

How to Transition from a Student to a Pharmacist

Hello tl;dr friends. In addition to creating lovingly hand-crafted pharmacy knowledge bombs for your reading enjoyment, I also occasionally write for Pharmacy Times. I don't post every article that I write for Pharmacy Times here on tl;dr pharmacy...

Pharmacy School, Practice, Professional, ResidencyBrandon DysonMarch 2, 2017pharmacy student, pharmacist, pharmacy resident, residency, pharmacy residency, pharmacy times

New FDA Approval: Parsabiv

Drug

Etelcalcitide [Parsabiv]

Indication

The treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in adults on dialysis.

Clinical, FDA Approval, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon DysonFebruary 13, 2017hyperparathyroidism, PTH, parathyroid gland, etelcalcitide, Parsabiv, secondary hyperparathyroidism, calcimimetic, phosphate binder, osteoclast, bone resorption, calcium metabolism, sensipar, cinacalcet

How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part I

As with all things tl;dr pharmacy, this post will (ironically) be stupendously long. But it will serve as your one stop shop for all things biostats and clinical literature related.

Clinical, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon DysonFebruary 6, 2017biostats, biostatistics, literature evaluation, p-value, clinical significance, type i error, type II error, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, confidence interval, standard deviation, mean, median, mode, normal distribution

New FDA Approval: Vemlidy

Drug

Tenofovir alafenamide [Vemlidy]

Indication

The treatment of adults with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) with compensated liver disease

Clinical, FDA Approval, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon DysonJanuary 12, 2017Vemlidy, Tenofovir Alafenamide, tenofovir, HBV, Hepatitis B, HIV drugs cheat sheet, Viread

How to Stand Out as a Residency Applicant: An Insider's Guide

This post is sort of a "round up" of Residency Directors, Pharmacy Directors, and other influencers in the pharmacy residency sphere. In short, these are the people who interview you when you apply for residency.

I asked each of them one question:

"How can a pharmacy student make their residency application stand out?"

Practice, Professional, ResidencyBrandon DysonJanuary 2, 2017pharmacy residency, pharmacy resident, how to stand out as a pharmacy resident, how to make your residency application stand out, an insiders guide to pharmacy residency, how to make a stand out residency application, Residency, pharmacy residency interviews