Where content partially overlaps your previous pharmacology background, please consider this as reinforcing and not redundant. The benefits of this format are more choice in pace of study, timing of study, and method of study. To assist you, a collection of reprints has been prepared which forms the primary source material. Not all categories of drugs are covered in this course, and, hence, explanations are given which define the importance of and reasons for selecting each topic. If you can answer the instructional objectives, be confident that your performance on examinations will be satisfactory.
Notes accompany each reading assignment in the reprint collection.
These supplemental messages provide an e stimated s tudy t ime, the e.s.t, required for completing the reading assignment and to answer the review questions. The number of examination questions drawn from any lesson will be determined by the e.s.t for that lesson. A lesson with an e.s.t. of two hours will have proportionally more examination questions than one with an e.s.t. of one hour. Thus, the e.s.t.'s form the basis for fweightingg the examinations. The notes will also provide supplemental information pertaining to the reading.