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Learning Drug Interactions: pharmacology practice questions

Learning Drug Interactions is a high-yield area on the PEBC, NAPLEX, OPRA and FPGEE exams. Phartoonz has 35 exam-style Learning Drug Interactions questions, each written to test the clinical decisions these licensing exams actually reward — mechanism of action, dosing, monitoring parameters, adverse effects, contraindications and patient counseling.

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Sample questions

Sample 1

A patient is using codeine for pain. She is a CYP450 2D6 rapid metabolizer. What would be the effect on the conversion of codeine to morphine by the 2D6 enzyme?

  • 1The morphine concentration would decrease.
  • 2The morphine concentration would stay the same.
  • 3The morphine concentration would increase.
  • 4The morphine would become subtherapeutic.
  • 5Codeine is not metabolized by the 2D6 enzyme.
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Sample 2
Drug metabolism occurs most often through which CYP450 enzyme?
  • 12D6
  • 21A2
  • 32C19
  • 42C9
  • 53A4
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Sample 3

Which of the following is an inducer of CYP450 3A4?

  • 1Ketoconazole
  • 2Erythromycin
  • 3Clarithromycin
  • 4Phenobarbital
  • 5Amiodarone
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