one of our labs each week involves practicing a variety of skills we will use in practice, including counselling patients on their prescriptions. at the beginning of the week we are given a medication and by lab we have to research information to know enough to counsel on it. i decided instead of developing a script to memorize each week i would put that time into creating a summarized study sheet for that medication that would give me the important points to remember: the use, the usual dose and what adjustments might be ok, what a patient should expect in terms of improvement and side effects, storage, and most importantly directions on how to take or give the medication. i also try to include images that show any relevant device because we are also expected to demonstrate proper use. it’s sort of the coles notes version of the patient monograph, which we only have seven minutes to essentially repeat.