. How confident do you feel about analyzing factors pertinent to making the most effective drug selection for a patient with a specific diagnosis in the primary care setting? What resources are needed, if any, to help you feel more confident?

I feel moreover comfortable in analyzing factors related to the patient while selecting drugs as well as drug therapy. I feel I will grow more potent as I continue learning. For example, a newly diagnosed type II diabetes initiate with lifestyle modification and metformin. While prescribing, it is very important to consider factors like affordability, comorbid conditions, and patient willingness to be compliant. Similarly, monitoring must be ongoing until the A1C goal is reached. Likewise, If a patient is not reaching the goal, moving to step 2, where a diabetic patient is prescribed two different antidiabetic agents, would be beneficial. There are various resources available which helped to boost my confidence. Guidelines like, American Diabetes Association guideline, the JNC guideline for managing hypertension in adults, a guideline in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, ASCVD risk calculator, HAS-BLED score calculator for a patient on anticoagulants are important resources that helped me in selecting drugs. For example, the ASCVD risk calculator provides a risk of having cardiovascular events and recommending a patient on statin drugs. In addition to this, various digital prescribing tools like Epocrates, UpToDate, Micromedex are available to help with prescribing the effective drug with the right amount, route, and indications.