The companion smartphone application for Deo’s Basics of Clinical Pharmacology, a noble endeavor to address the need of a comprehensive yet manageable volume on Pharmacology. Throughout the book/app, precision of facts has been given due importance and standard references have been consulted while preparing these material. Tables, graphs, charts, pictures and illustrations have been used liberally to facilitate assimilation of facts and to aid easy reproducibility of these facts while sitting for exams. Flow of contents in each chapter promotes step by step learning, beginning with the basics and gradually moving to the details and specifics.
In order to bolster the newfound knowledge of the reader, there are MCQs and SAQs at the end of every sections, which will assist the reader to consolidate and refine their concepts. Names of some local brands are included together with their generic names so that the readers keep in terms with the available formulations. The value of this book/app lies in how useful it proves in imparting the knowledge of pharmacology with clarity, completeness and in less time.
Salient features :
• Comprehensive yet manageable volume
• Clarity of concepts
• Precise basics and specific details
• Scrutable within a stipulated time
• Reader friendly
• Straight forward, uncomplicated and easy to digest
• Informative tables, graphs, charts, pictures and illustrations
• 300 MCQs and 75 SAQs
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