Pharmacology by Suffix

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn to place a medication by its name: forty stems, the class each one names, and the one fact per class that changes what you do.

Drug names are not random. A committee assigns each new substance a stem that names its class, and once you know forty stems you can place most of a medication list without looking anything up.

84 cards in both directions: which class ends in -pril, and which class lisinopril belongs to. Every card carries the thing worth knowing about the class rather than a definition of it. Beta blockers: hold and ask if the pulse is under sixty. Metronidazole: not with alcohol. Steroids: never stopped abruptly.

Not a substitute for a drug reference. Doses, interactions and contraindications belong in one of those. This deck is about recognising what you are looking at.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Analgesic” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Forty stems and the class each one names
• The same list backwards, from drug to class
• The one fact per class that changes what you do
• Look-alike stems: -sartan against -zosin
• Which classes are never stopped abruptly

The categories

10 categories sort the 84 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Analgesic
2. Anti-infective
3. Cardiovascular
4. Classes
5. Endocrine
6. Gastrointestinal
7. Haematology
8. Neurological
9. Renal
10. Respiratory

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 84 checked cards for €0.99, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.