To the students of health sciences:

Pharmacology is a vital subject from exam viewpoint. Likewise, it is indispensable in the sense that you will need to recall it throughout your entire profession. Physicians, pharmacists, dentists, and nurses should have the comprehension of drugs used in various diseases.

The field of pharmacology strengthens crucial everyday decisions that you will make as a knowledgeable, esteemed healthcare professional. The more pharmacology you grasp, the greater your abilities of reasoning become.

But unfortunately, it is commonly accepted belief amid students that learning pharmacology is extremely tedious and distressing because it is an “unpredictable subject”. Students are supposed to recognize for every drug the distinctive pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.

Many reports pointed that the crossword puzzles are valuable and creative tools for enjoyable learning and can be used as lively educational strategies to encourage self-directed learning, whose proper implementation positively have favorable influence on the student’s skills and performances (1-4).

The combination of the two facts: 1) the complexity of the pharmacology topics and 2) the usefulness of the crossword puzzles as effective and active self-learning tool, had motivated the assembling and generating of these puzzles.      

Throughout the development of this project, I had verified all the information included herein with sources trusted to be reliable and reputable (textbooks, scholarly articles, websites, databases and journals) in efforts to provide facts that are inclusive and consistently in accordance with the guidelines approved at the time of publication.

Every single statement was reviewed no less than three times to be certain of its accurateness.

Usually, if a drug was withdrawn or not approved in the USA, will not be mentioned here.

1.     Gaikwad, Nitin, and Suresh Tankhiwale. “Crossword puzzles: self-learning tool in pharmacology.” Perspectives on medical education vol. 1,5-6 (2012): 237-48. doi:10.1007/s40037-012-0033-0

2.     Kolte, Shrikrishna, Pradeep R. Jadhav, Yeshwant A. Deshmukh, & Arun Patil. Effectiveness of crossword puzzle as an adjunct tool for active learning and critical thinking in Pharmacology. International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology [Online], 6.6 (2017): 1431-1436. Web. 28 Jun. 2020)

3.     Patrick, Shilpa et al. “The usefulness of crossword puzzle as a self-learning tool in pharmacology.” Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism vol. 6,4 (2018): 181-185.

4.     Shah, Samit et al. “Crossword puzzles as a tool to enhance learning about anti-ulcer agents.” American journal of pharmaceutical education vol. 74,7 (2010): 117. doi:10.5688/aj7407117