We spent the first four days of this weekend reviewing pharmacokinetics for drugs such as vancomycin, aminoglycosides, digoxin and phenytoin.  The section on aminoglycosides was the most over-whelming but hopefully when it comes down to calculating parameters such as Ke, T1/2, Vd, dosing interval and new maintenance dose I will be more comfortable with it when I have real levels for a real patient. There was also a quick review of statistics on Wednesday afternoon.  It reviewed a lot of stuff I have since forgotten since school and I am actually thinking of changing one of the statistical tests I am using for my research project.

Kudos  to Dr. Ensom! She is a really knowledable and thorough lecturer and I wish she had taught me kinetics during pharmacy school.

July 31, 2009 – Lit Review

On our last day of didactics, we each had to do a four minute presentation on a clinical question we had submitted. I guess it’s good practice for our big case presentations!

PICO presentation