Sketchy Pharm May 2026

Need to recall that cause a dry cough, hyperkalemia, and angioedema? The sketch places you in a medieval castle where an "Ace" playing card knight fights a dragon. The dragon isn’t breathing fire—it’s coughing. A potassium banana lies on the ground. And the knight’s face is swollen.

It is 2:00 AM. You are staring at a list of beta-lactam antibiotics. You have already confused ampicillin with amoxicillin four times. The side effects of macrolides have blurred into a haze of GI upset and drug interactions. You have three hours until your exam, and your coffee is cold. sketchy pharm

Every visual detail is a mnemonic. Every color, shadow, and background character corresponds to a specific drug, side effect, or contraindication. "When my attending first recommended Sketchy, I thought it was a joke," says Dr. Maya Harris, a second-year internal medicine resident. "I was a 'serious student.' I used textbooks. But after failing my first pharm exam, I was desperate. I watched the video on diuretics, and I swear... I saw that cartoon furosemide loop in my dreams. I never missed a question about loop diuretics again." Need to recall that cause a dry cough,

A single SketchyPharm video can run 20-40 minutes. For a chapter covering 10 drugs, that’s fine. But for an entire semester of autonomic, cardiovascular, and neuro drugs? That’s dozens of hours of passive watching. A potassium banana lies on the ground