Know how to prescribe gentamicin and how to use the gentamicin chart to determine next prescription timing Usually, only some of the information given in the question are relevant to the calculation. However, you should still read all the information to ensure that you don't miss anything important.

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The Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) is delivered through an equal partnership between two organisations: the British Pharmacological Society and MSC Assessment. Your revision should be done through understanding rather than memorising. For every fact you come across, try to either seek an explanation or come up with your own explanation. Even a wrong explanation is usually alright as the PSA won't test on the explanation. This helps you remember the fact much better compared to simply memorising. The maximum dose of paracetamol is 1g QDS – common dosing errors will include 1g 4hrly or co-prescription of paracetamol and co-codamol. The calculation skills will not be overly complex in the exam and there are three basic skills you need to be able to do: Learn the common and serious side-effects and monitoring requirements for: ACEi, antidepressants, anticoagulants, bisphosphonates, HRT, insulin, methotrexate, and statins.

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Pass the PSA, 1e by Will Brown BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FHEA (2014

Allthebestandmakesureyoufinishit!Likepreviouslysaidonthisthread,theaveragefor2sessionswerearound56and62fortheotherpaper.Itmightnotbeaslowforthenextsitting Each answer is composed of several variables (drug description (including form and strength), dose, route & frequency) and therefore, a correct answer can be expressed in a variety of ways, depending on the product selected. Due to the breadth of possible answers, some credit-worthy variations may not be included in a given mark scheme and recognised by the auto-scoring system. Meanwhile, if the there are clinical features of toxicity, stop the drug temporarily and treat the toxicity, then either restart it at a lower dose or switch to another drug. If the plasma concentration is above normal but there are no features of toxicity, then decrease the dose. The required percentage of reduction in the dose is usually the same as the percentage of reduction in the plasma concentration that you want to achieve. that you have any inquiry or need to eliminate any substance recorded here if it's not too much trouble, go

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I also used my own pharmacology notes from medical school to revise key drugs from each branch of medicine e.g. respiratory drugs, GI drugs etc, which was perhaps more useful. QUB has its own formulary of drugs which highlights ‘need to know’ information which helped me to fill in any gaps. The book ‘The Top 100 Drugs’ by Hitchings, Lonsdale, Burrage & Baker was also helpful for this. Often relevant adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can be found in either the “side effect”, “interactions” or “cautions” section of the medication. There is a 'Monitoring requirements' section in the BNF for many drugs. The information under that section is often the answer for questions about the monitoring required before prescribing a drug as well as questions about the monitoring for adverse effects. For the first, second and third types of questions, you may sometimes find that more than one of the answer choices could be the correct answer. In this case, you should take into consideration how common each adverse effect or drug interaction is. If they seem equally common, then you should exclude the answer choice that is less likely based on your own understanding of the drugs' pharmacology.

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For the 2023 PSA, all medical schools may decide to offer re-sits, especially if the PSA is taken as a summative test. Medical schools where the test is formative should also offer re-sits. Medical schools are responsible for providing further training and support in prescribing for those re-sitting, and they will inform their students of the local re-sit dates. Questions will cover Medicine, Surgery, General Practice, Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Geriatrics. Whatsectiondidyoudobadlyin?Ididhorrendouslyinthecalculationsection(IdespiseMaths)butI'vebeengoingovercalculationscontinuouslyandfeelI'mgettingthehangofitnow. If unsure of conversion of units e.g. mg to micrograms etc type ‘approximate conversions and units’ into the search bar By William Brown, BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FHEA, Kevin W Loudon, MBBS, MRCP(UK), FHEA, James Fisher, BSc, MSc, MBBS and Laura B Marsland, MPharm, ClinDipAs the scope of testing for this section can be quite broad, knowledge of some common scenarios will be very helpful: The treatment summaries can help in this section if you are not sure what drug should be used. However, having a good basic understanding of most conditions allows you to focus on looking up the appropriate drug based on your prior understanding which helps save time. In this section, each question will contain a clinical scenario and you will be asked how to manage the patient. The recommended reference books for the PSA are Pass The PSA, Get Ahead! The Prescribing Safety Assessment, MasterPass Student Success in the Prescribing Safety Assessment, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (10th Edition), Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties (10th Edition) and the textbooks for the specialties. Note that the questions in the MasterPass Student Success in the Prescribing Safety Assessment book are not well aligned with the PSA format, but it's still useful to do them as a practice.

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Following this, there will be the answer section. The format of the answer will change depending on the subject domain. In general, there are four answer types: Among the 5 choices of answers, there may be more than one correct monitoring options, but only one is the most appropriate. The date of each post on this blog is the date where the post was first published, not the date where the post was last updated. I may have updated the post after the date it was first published. With the exception of the Prescribing and Prescription Review sections, each question in all other sections carries 2 marks. A correct answer scores 2 marks while an incorrect answer scores 0 mark, there is no in-between. Typically, you will be provided with 5 options and tasked with deciding which treatment would be most appropriate in the management of the given clinical scenario.Use your clinical knowledge and judgement to determine the most suitable management from the 5 choices of answers, taking into consideration all information provided in the question. The BNF may be able to help, but only in some cases. Use split screen during the exam – one screen for the PSA exam and one for BNF/Medicines complete. This saves time having to constantly switch between screens