USMLE Step 1 & NBME Shelf Exam Pharmacology
Learn pharmacology the way it's actually tested
Video lessons, text outlines, board-style quizzes, flashcards, and printable worksheets built around mechanisms, high-yield facts, and adverse effects -- every drug class covered, no account required.
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Video lessons
1,220
Flashcards
17
Practice quizzes
18
Worksheets
17
Drug-class chapters
Everything you need to actually retain it
Pharmacology is memorization-heavy by nature, and no single format sticks on its own. Catapult Pharmacology layers five complementary ways to study each drug class, so the same material gets reinforced from a different angle every time you come back to it.
Video lessons
Short, focused videos walk through each drug class -- mechanism of action, clinical applications, and the adverse effects you're most likely to see tested -- without the padding of a full lecture.
Text outlines
Every video has a written outline underneath it, organized the same way the video is, so you can skim a chapter you've already watched, jump straight to one drug, or study entirely by reading if that's how you learn best.
Board-style quizzes
Practice questions modeled on the way USMLE and shelf exams actually test drugs -- vignette-style stems, not simple recall -- with explanations that walk through why each answer is right or wrong.
Flashcards
Every chapter has three decks -- mechanisms, key facts & physiology, and adverse reactions -- so you can drill the specific angle you're weakest on instead of re-reviewing everything at once.
Worksheets
Downloadable worksheets for every major drug-class chapter, each with a blank version to fill in from memory and a completed version to check yourself against -- a quick way to find out what you actually retained before quiz day.
Built for board and shelf prep
Catapult Pharmacology is built for second-year medical students preparing for USMLE Step 1 and for clerkship students prepping for NBME shelf exams, where pharmacology questions show up constantly across every rotation. The content follows the same drug classes and testable distinctions the exams actually draw from, so study time goes toward what's likely to appear on the test instead of textbook detail that never gets asked.
A different kind of study tool
Drugs stick better when you can picture them
Pharmacology drowns most students in names, mechanisms, and side effects that all start to blur together, especially once you're reviewing dozens of drug classes at once for a shelf exam. The memory palace method gives each drug class a vivid, visual location in your mind, tied to the specific detail that usually trips people up -- so instead of re-memorizing a list every week, you're recalling a place you've already been.
Explore STEP 1 Pharmacology Content
We've done a deep dive on the official USMLE Step 1 content outline to break down exactly which pharmacology topics are tested, system by system, and how heavily each one tends to show up. If you're deciding where to spend your limited study time, this is the fastest way to see what's actually worth prioritizing.
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No account, no sign-up, and nothing to install -- just open the course and start wherever makes sense for you. Your progress is tracked right in your browser, so you can pick up a chapter exactly where you left off.