Name That Drug 💊
This medication is commonly used to relieve mild to moderate pain and reduce fever.
What is acetaminophen?
This pharmacist prepares customized dosage forms when commercially available products do not meet a patient's needs.
What is a compounding pharmacist?
A patient with asthma needs a quick-relief inhaler for sudden bronchospasm. Which medication is a short-acting beta-2 agonist commonly used for rapid symptom relief?
What is albuterol?
This long-running medical drama features surgeons at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
This student organization focuses on the pharmacy profession, healthcare issues, and improving the health and social environments of underserved communities.
What is SNPhA?
This medication is commonly associated with a dry cough and is used to treat hypertension by inhibiting angiotensin-converting enzyme.
What is lisinopril?
This pharmacist helps assess and manage poisonings, overdoses, and toxic exposures.
What is a clinical toxicologist?
A patient develops hives, wheezing, and hypotension immediately after receiving a medication. Which medication should be administered promptly as first-line treatment for anaphylaxis?
What is intramuscular epinephrine?
This prescription medication, originally used to treat acne, is a powerful teratogen that requires strict pregnancy-prevention precautions because of its risk of severe birth defects.
What is isotretinoin (Accutane)?
Which initiative focuses on strengthening student pharmacists' voices in health policy, advocacy, membership benefits, and immigration issues?
What is the Legislative, Membership Benefits, and Immigration Initiative Chair?
This antibiotic can cause tooth discoloration in developing teeth and is generally avoided during pregnancy and in young children when alternatives are appropriate.
What is doxycycline?
This pharmacist builds and optimizes electronic prescribing, clinical decision support, and medication-use technology.
An otherwise stable, nonpregnant adult has a complicated UTI. What medication is NOT indicated as it will not achieve therapeutic levels?
What is nitrofurantoin?
In this television series, former chemistry teacher Walter White becomes involved in manufacturing illegal methamphetamine.
What is Breaking Bad?
What is our annual event held in the Spring semester where we bring in dishes from around the world and embrace each other's culture?
What is International Fiesta?
This anticoagulant directly inhibits factor Xa and is commonly prescribed to prevent stroke in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
What is apixaban?
This pharmacist helps ensure medicines meet regulatory requirements for development, approval, labeling, and marketing.
What is regulatory affairs?
A patient taking warfarin develops life-threatening bleeding. Which reversal strategy is indicated?
What is Vitamin K?
This 2024 medical drama stars Noah Wyle as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch and follows healthcare workers through a chaotic shift at a Pittsburgh emergency department.
What is The Pitt?
What is the annual event held in the fall semester at Pickles to raise awareness for JACQUES initiative, a program of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at UMSOM?
What is JAVA House?
This antineoplastic medication inhibits dihydrofolate reductase and can cause bone marrow suppression, hepatotoxicity, and mucositis; folinic acid may be used as rescue therapy in certain high-dose regimens.
What is methotrexate?
This pharmacist specializes in evaluating medication safety during clinical trials, reviewing adverse event reports, and identifying potential safety signals after drugs reach the market.
What is a pharmacovigilance pharmacist?
A patient with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction needs foundational guideline-directed medical therapy. What four medication classes are generally used to reduce morbidity and mortality?
What are an ARNI (or ACE inhibitor/ARB when appropriate), an evidence-based beta-blocker, a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, and an SGLT2 inhibitor?
A viral post claims that taking this medication class whenever you feel sick will prevent any infection from getting worse. In reality, using it unnecessarily contributes to antimicrobial resistance.
What are antibiotics?
List the NINE SNPhA initiative chairs!!!
What are Bridging the Gap, Combating Cancer, Fighting Diabetes, LMBI, Mental Health, Operation Immunization, Power to End Stroke, Project Keepsake, & Remember the Ribbon?