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For IMGs who keep restarting pharm: the order that makes it finite.
By Dr. Marish Asudani · Published
The High-Yield Pharmacology PDF and my Antimicrobials in 90 minutes video are S tier. Sketchy pharm, Osmosis, Mehlman pharm, Neil Randy pharm and the NBME Booster pharmacology deck are A. Dirty Medicine and Ninja Nerd pharm are B. Pixorize is D and Kaplan is F.
Read this firstI studied pharmacology from Sketchy, Osmosis, Kaplan and Dirty Medicine before I found the method that worked. Pharmacology isn't hard. Pharmacology is disorganised.
Every name below opens it. Here is how to read the tiers:
Osmosis, Sketchy, the First Aid Guide, Dirty Medicine, Kaplan, Pixorize, and a couple more. Tap any name to open it.
SMy own video. A topic that feels endless, made finite, and free. It's the largest single hour-for-hour return in all of Step 1 pharmacology.
▶Antimicrobials in under 90 minutesUsmleMatch · freeWatch it once at the start, then again 1 week before your exam. Then do the antimicrobials in the NBME Booster pharmacology deck. The full antibiotics plan →
The pharm the NBMEs actually askedThe NBME Booster pharmacology deck: 338 cards from NBME 20 to 34 and the Free 120. Opens straight into the deck.
Open pharm Booster →Pharm with the First Aid page openThe First Aid Guide teaches general pharmacology page by page, with MCQs under every page.
Open pharmacology →Want a day-by-day schedule that tells you exactly what to study next? The Vault builds it around your exam date.
Build my schedule on usmlevault.com/schedule →
Pharmacology in 48 hours — the HY Pharm PDF, used properly.
All of antibiotics in 90 minutes — the S-tier video, and what to do after.
NBME Booster pharmacology — the final-week deck.
The micro tier list — the bugs those drugs kill.