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The Home Stretch

Service Hours:  Crescent City Farmers Market (Feb 5th): 3 hours     Well, we are embarking on the final lap of the Masters of Pharmacology program here at Tulane with our last Medical Pharmacology lecture being presented to us this past week. While there has been a lot of work going into this past year in school, I cannot believe how quickly the time has gone by. I feel like we were just beginning in August, learning the basic of P450 metabolism in the liver and how Aspirin works.      Speaking of which, as we have concluded the didactic lectures for Medical Pharmacology, it has become time to begin study for the NMBE Pharmacology Shelf Exam which we will be taking on April 1st, about one month from now. While I have not begun study to take a deep dive into preparing for this test, I have taken a substantial amount of time to organize my study materials and identify key areas of weakness which I need to review for. The challenge of any cumulative exam, especially one dealing with a vas