Hello! I wanted to ask you if you recommend sketchy pharma? Is it as good as sketchy micro?
Hi! So I used both Sketchy Pharm and Sketchy Micro. First off, yes I recommend it, but I personally did not like sketchy pharm as much as micro, but it was still extremely helpful and some of my classmates liked it more than the micro version.
The reasons I liked it less is because the videos are longer (a lot longer) and more crowded, mostly because they include a lot more background science in the videos (example: folate pathway being included in the video along with methotrexate, 5FU, hydroxyurea, and side effects). Some people liked this fact. It was cumbersome for me.
However, this does not mean I didn’t find it helpful and I DEFINITELY recommend it. Again though, the videos are extremely long, so if you want recommended chapters: Autonomics, Cardiac & Renal, neuro and psych drugs, and antimicrobials. But if you have time for all of it, use all of it. There were only about 5 videos overall I never used because they just didn’t work for me, but different videos work for different people.
If it helps, pharm was terrible for me. Pure memorization is not my strong point, and Sketchy Pharm helped turn that topic into one of my best. I would not be surprised if I didn’t miss a single one of the pharm questions on my Step 1 (I don’t know my scores yet) because I felt like I knew the answers to all of them, in large part because of Sketchy Pharm helping me memorize things.
