1 drug group.
Two angles. One method.
This is the shortest row on the map. Anaesthesia is one group — the general anaesthetics — from one resource, Osmosis, learned from two angles: mechanism of action and side effects. Those two angles are what gets tested. Learn them and move on. The method is FWRT.
On the resource map this row sits with neurology — Neurology / Anaesthesia — but it is its own block with its own finish line, and it is the easiest one to either skip entirely or drown in. Do neither. One group, one video, four steps, done — most students finish it inside a single sitting.
If you have only ever used First Aid, you can revise every drug on this page from First Aid and the FA Guide alone, together with the High-Yield Pharmacology PDF. The drug list below is still your list; only the source changes. You will not fail for skipping the videos.
But if you have the time, invest in the resource named against each group — Sketchy, Osmosis or Dirty Medicine, whichever this page specifies. That naming is the product: somebody already worked out which one teaches that group best, so you never sample three videos to find the good one. If you can afford the hours, use both.
PART ONEThe FWRT method
Four steps, in order. Because this system is a single group, "after the whole system" and "after this group" are the same thing — which makes this the fastest FWRT loop on the map.
Find the resource
Already done for you: general anaesthetics, from Osmosis. Mechanism of action and side effects — those two angles, nothing more.
Watch — twice, not once
Open the Osmosis general anaesthetics video — and nothing else. Not a second opinion on YouTube. Watch it twice, back to back.
Read — and highlight what didn't survive
After the second viewing, open the High-Yield Pharmacology PDF and read the general anaesthetics. Whatever you could not retain, highlight those lines.
Test yourself
First Aid Guide → CNS → Pharmacology. The anaesthetics you just watched are explained there with MCQs attached, page by page, following First Aid.
Anaesthesia pharm is done when the MCQs are done and the highlighted lines have been re-read once. Not when the video is watched. Watching is the cheapest part of this method and the least predictive of your score.
PART TWOThe 1 anaesthesia drug group
This is the entire Neurology / Anaesthesia row of the resource map. If a group is not here, it is not in your 48 hours — that is the point of stratification.
- 01General anaesthetics — mechanism of action and side effects — Osmosis
Mechanism of action and side effects — those two angles are what gets tested. Learn them and move on. Do not build a comparison table of every agent's every property. That is anaesthesiology residency material, not Step 1 material.
PART THREEThe group, worked through
Here is FWRT applied to the only group on the list. One loop and this system is closed.
The resource is already chosen — Osmosis
Do not open Sketchy to compare. Do not search YouTube for a better explanation of inhaled agents. The map decided; your job is to watch.
Watch the general anaesthetics video twice, back to back
Not once today and once tomorrow — twice, now. The second pass is where it stops being a story you recognise and becomes a mechanism you can retrieve.
Read the general anaesthetics pages of the PDF
One group means no waiting — read straight after the second viewing and highlight only what did not come back. If half the page ends up yellow, you did not watch twice.
Do the MCQs — First Aid Guide → CNS → Pharmacology
The anaesthetics pages only, in the order First Aid presents them. Getting one wrong here costs you two minutes and fixes the gap permanently; the same gap found on test day costs you the mark.
No repeats — one group was the entire row. Re-read your highlighted lines once, finish the MCQs, and anaesthesia pharm is closed. If you came here from the neurology page, that block is now fully done too. Move to the next system.