From the authors of pharmacology's most trusted textbook, this full-colour resource delivers a clear, concise review of fundamental concepts with more than 1,000 review questions and answers. The chapter-based approach facilitates courses using larger texts and provides the theory required to excel in medical pharmacology. Valuable learning aids include: * A short discussion of major concepts that underlie basic principles or specific drug groups in every chapter * Explanatory figures and tables * Review questions followed by answers and explanations * Overview diagrams that visually organise drug groups and concepts * A list of high-yield terms and definitions * Skill Keeper Questions to review previous material and understand links between related topics * A checklist of tasks students should be able to perform upon completion of each chapter * Summary tables that list important drugs and include key information about their mechanisms of action and effects, clinical uses, pharmacokinetics, drug interactions and toxicities * Two comprehensive 100-question examinations followed by answers and explanations * An appendix describing test-taking strategies for improving test performance.
