Designed for students preparing for examinations, this new text provides a concise review of essential pharmacologic concepts and facts. It offers coverage of basic principles, as well as organ system pharmacology and chemotherapy. You'll find helpful outlines presenting up-to-date drug facts that make studying more efficient. An abundance of illustrations depict drug mechanisms and other conceptual information, and a number of useful tables compare the properties and uses of drugs within a group. Each section ends with an examination written in the USMLE format, plus a comprehensive exam at the end of the book.