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Today's session was focused on both reviewing the material from yesterday, and continuing our studies of antibacterial agents. We covered the following topics: first - fourth generation penicillins, high-yield details for each generation, cephalosporins, monobactams, carapenems, and beta-lactamse inhibitors & their combination drugs (augmenting), quinolones, aminoglycosides, and tetracyclines. Since this is an incredible amount of material, we studied each topic and noted the most important notes in a study guide type format. Hopefully, she can use the review material and outlines we made to keep the material fresh in her mind for Thursday's exam.

During this session, the student and I covered adrenal hormones and principles of antimicrobial therapy. She reports that after reviewing the hypothalamus/pituitary gland material, things are starting to come together for her. I definitely noticed during this session that we were having more of a conversation about the material than we had been previously, and she correctly answered several of my questions. She is still a bit intimidated by the amount of material that will be on the final but reports that she does feel better about it all than she did a few weeks ago. With a couple of sessions, I think she will be well prepared for the last few weeks of the semester.

Today we covered a homework assignment that the student finished. She wanted to get a stronger feel for it. We also went over a review sheet for this past section on vector cosines, forces, loads, moments, moments about an axis, couples, and center of action. She is doing very well.

The student and I worked on the outline for his astrophysics paper for which a first draft is due at the end of the week. He has been keeping up with the reading and I gave him a timeline to have his paper written.

Today we reviewed the student's test, which mostly covered balancing forces and moments in 2D and 3D and finding equivalent forces and moments about a point from a system of forces. We also talked briefly about geometric methods for summing vectors, but we will mostly be using vector components.

For today's session, we covered antithrombotic drugs. We first went over the physiology associated with bleeding and anticoagulation, beginning with the coagulation cascade and then onto fibrinolysis. It's important to understand some of the physiology before going into the drug therapies. We then went on to discuss the various drug classes, mechanisms of action, indications, and side effects. I provided the student with a review PowerPoint with some new diagrams to help in her exam preparation!