Definition
Pharmacramitis (n.): An acute condition affecting medical and health professions students, characterised by confusion between drug names, receptor overload, CYP450 hallucinations, and an irresistible urge to memorise senior's notes at 3 am.
Possible Symptoms
- Mixing up drug names ending in -mab, -pril, and -olol
- See MEQ, panic, anyhow whack answers and hope kena one right
- Seeing adverse effects everywhere
- Believing every exam question has "all of the above" as the answer
- Persistent exposure to flashcards despite diminishing returns
Potential Treatments
- Sleep
- Retrieval practice
- Spaced repetition
- Sleep
- Coffee (temporary symptomatic relief only)
- More sleep
- RxMish.app