1. What is the Beer Criteria and what is its’ significance in prescribing?
2. What is the safest method of calculating a medication dose for the pediatric patient?
3.At what time period in a pregnancy can medication potentially have the greatest risk of causing
malformations?
4. If your patient sometimes forgets to take her medication, what type of medication half-life would be
beneficial?
5. Your patient is on the highest daily dose of his medication and it is not giving him the desired effect. What
type of metabolizer is he with this medication?
6. What food item interacts with many medications and should be asked about its’ ingestion, especially in the
elderly?