SystemWise Pharm · Endocrine

4 drug groups.
One split. One method.

You are not revising all of pharmacology today. You are revising the 4 drug groups that belong to endocrine — the list is below — and this is the one system where you must read the map carefully: the split runs through the oral hypoglycemics themselves. The method is FWRT.

The most commonly mixed-up row on the map

Insulin and sulfonylureas from Sketchy. Metformin and SGLT2 inhibitors from Osmosis. The split does not fall between "insulin" and "the oral drugs" — it cuts through the oral hypoglycemics themselves. Sulfonylureas go with Sketchy; metformin does not. Get this one right before you press play.

Never done Sketchy? Read this first

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, for every drug group. You do not move to the next system until all four are done for this one.

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Find the resource

Already done for you, for endocrine — but this is the system where students run the wrong resource. Insulin and sulfonylureas: Sketchy. Metformin and SGLT2 inhibitors: Osmosis. Check the list below before each video, not from memory.

Why: no one tells you which drug is high-yield or where to learn it, so you either learn all 400 equally — impossible — or you pick a resource and hope. The map is the answer to that. It is what turns three weeks into two days.
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Watch — twice, not once

Open the video for that drug group from its mapped resource — and nothing else. Not the Sketchy version and the Osmosis version. Not a third opinion on YouTube. Watch each video twice, back to back.

Why: pharm is dense — mechanism, indication, side effects, interactions, stacked into a few minutes. One pass gets you recognition, not recall. Two passes of one video beats one pass of two videos, every time.
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Read — and highlight what didn't survive

After you have watched all four groups — not after each video, after the whole system — go back to the High-Yield Pharmacology PDF and read those same drugs. Whatever you could not retain, highlight those lines.

Why: those highlighted lines are your memory gaps — the facts that did not survive two viewings. Everything unhighlighted is done and you never touch it again. That is the entire diagnostic, and it is earned rather than guessed.
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Test yourself

First Aid Guide → Endocrine → Pharmacology. Every drug you just watched is explained there with MCQs attached, page by page, following First Aid.

Why: watching and reading are input. The MCQs force you to apply it, which is the only thing the exam ever asks you to do. This is the step that closes the loop.
What "done" means

Endocrine pharm is done when the MCQs are done and the highlighted lines have been re-read once. Not when the videos are watched. Watching is the cheapest part of this method and the least predictive of your score.

PART TWOThe 4 endocrine drug groups

This is the entire endocrine row of the resource map. If a group is not here, it is not in your 48 hours — that is the point of stratification.

Sketchy · 2 groups
  1. 01Insulin — Sketchy
  2. 02Sulfonylureas — Sketchy
Osmosis · 2 groups
  1. 03Metformin — Osmosis
  2. 04SGLT2 inhibitors — Osmosis
Read the split again

Sulfonylureas and metformin are both oral hypoglycemics — and they come from different resources. That is exactly why this row gets mixed up more than any other on the map. Two videos from Sketchy, two from Osmosis, in the order above.

PART THREEOne drug group, worked through

Here is FWRT applied to the first group on the list, in full, so you know exactly what each step looks like before you do it three more times.

Worked example · 01 of 04 Insulin
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The resource is already chosen — Sketchy

Do not open Osmosis to compare — Osmosis is for metformin and the SGLT2 inhibitors, two groups from now. The map decided; your job is to watch.

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Watch the insulin sketch 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.

You should be able to say, without looking The preparations and how fast each one acts · which preparation for which situation · hypoglycemia as the side effect that decides the stem · what insulin does to potassium, and when the exam uses that
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Read the insulin pages of the PDF — after all four groups

Not now. Finish the sulfonylureas, metformin and the SGLT2 inhibitors first, then read all four together and highlight only what did not come back. If half the page ends up yellow, you did not watch twice.

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Do the MCQs — First Aid Guide → Endocrine → Pharmacology

This group only, in the order First Aid presents it. Getting one wrong here costs you two minutes and fixes the gap permanently; the same gap found on test day costs you the mark.

Then three more times

That is one group. Do the same for sulfonylureas — still Sketchy — then switch to Osmosis for metformin and the SGLT2 inhibitors — and endocrine pharm is finished. Do not start another system's drugs. Do not go back to the map. Close this and move to your endocrine First Aid reading.

Open the FA Guide → Endocrine Pharmacology The High-Yield Pharmacology PDF
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