"Pharmacology, so you're studying to be a pharmacist?"
The question in the title is one that I've gotten quite often since I started my master's in pharmacology. I thought it would be productive to explain what pharmacology is. At its core, pharmacology is focused on studying the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs. In simpler terms, what drugs do in the body and what the body does with drugs. Over the past month, we have been studying the pharmacology and physiology of the autonomic nervous system and the cardiovascular system. Covering everything from ion channels and smooth muscle to cardiac arrhythmias and how to read an EKG, these modules have been far more difficult and nuanced than the previous ones. This difficulty certainly presented itself on our last module exam. Afterward, I knew that my current methods of studying for module exams would need some adjustment. In addition to my use of Anki and Yuja, I've started setting review benchmarks and creating more detailed study plans. I believe that these changes