February
February Hours: 0, Total Hours: 0 This short month was a busy month in terms of tests as we started out with the reproductive pharmacology test as well as the cell control exam. In medical pharmacology we went over how age and gender affect the metabolism of different medications, specifically in geriatric and pediatric people. Considering the increasingly aging population in the US, it is important that we learn more about geriatric medications and which to avoid such as the Beers list as it will become highly relevant. We also learned the contraceptive medications as well as STI treatment. The second module we did this month was the Neurology pharmacology module in which we learned about anesthesia medications such as local and general anesthesia, skipping over the regional anesthetics for now. It was also very interesting learning about the common drugs of abuse such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, and opioids. We also did a simulation which was highly useful in understanding how cert