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System Guides

Every system's microbiology and pharmacology, already stratified. Pick a system, pick a subject, work down the list, stop when it ends.

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The MCQs that close each guide live inside the First Aid Guide — 2,534 of them, one set per First Aid page

Pick your system

11 systems

Micro guides run the WRWRT method — watch, recall, watch again, read, test. Pharm guides run FWRT — find the resource, watch it twice, read and highlight the gaps, test. Greyed out means that subject isn't stratified for that system.

Cardiovascular
18 organisms · 3 drug groups
Micro · 18 Pharm · 3
Respiratory
15 organisms · 1 drug groups
Micro · 15 Pharm · 1
Renal
11 organisms · 3 drug groups
Micro · 11 Pharm · 3
Gastrointestinal
24 organisms
Micro · 24 Pharm · —
Neurology
31 organisms · 3 drug groups
Micro · 31 Pharm · 3
Endocrine
4 drug groups
Micro · — Pharm · 4
Psychiatry
4 drug groups
Micro · — Pharm · 4
Immunology
28 organisms
Micro · 28 Pharm · —
Reproductive
14 organisms
Micro · 14 Pharm · —
MSK
13 organisms · includes dermatology
Micro · 13 Pharm · —
Dermatology
7 organisms
Micro · 7 Pharm · —

Pharm-only blocks

2 guides

Two drug blocks that aren't organ systems but still get their own page.

Antimicrobials
6 drug groups · one 90-min video
Micro · — Pharm · 6
Anaesthesia
1 drug group
Micro · — Pharm · 1

The charts and the methods

4 pages
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The full chart
SystemWise Micro
All 155 organisms across 9 systems, searchable — the chart every micro guide is cut from.
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Download
SystemWise Micro — PDF
The same chart, annotatable in GoodNotes or Notability, and it works offline forever.
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The method
Pharmacology in 48 Hours
Why pharm isn't hard, it's disorganised — and the resource map that turns three weeks into two days.
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The method
Sketchy Micro in 6 Days
The WRWRT method in full, and the day-by-day plan to finish all of Sketchy and move on.
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Never done Sketchy?

Read this

You can revise every one of these pages from First Aid and the FA Guide alone. The lists are still your lists; only the source changes, and you will not fail for skipping Sketchy. But if you have the hours, buy it — the whole point of a named resource is that somebody already worked out which one teaches that organism best, so you never spend an evening sampling three of them.

Read next

Pharmacology in 48 hours — the FWRT method.

How to actually complete First Aid — the four-reading method, 4-5 days a system.

The 16-week plan — the four phases, and the exact order of the systems.