Introduction to "Dr. Eyad Academy" and the Founding Story
In the name of Allah, all praise is due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah. May Allah bless you with goodness, dear guests, and I ask Allah, the Most High, to bless us in the remaining days of Ramadan and to allow us to reach the Night of Power.
The purpose of this meeting is to introduce the website "FixPharma" or as the brothers who rebuilt it named it, "Dr. Eyad Academy." The story is simple: there are many recorded lectures on various subjects that I had previously published on the "FixPharma" website, but the "server" burned down. Afterwards, students from several countries who needed these lectures for their studies contacted me, so I felt that there was local and global benefit to this scientific material.
The website currently includes lectures on various fields: Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics, Therapeutics, in addition to general medical benefits. The lectures vary in depth; some provide the minimum required, while others are very advanced and of interest to specialists.
Features of the New Website
I preferred to launch the website in its current form so that students can benefit from it, while we complete the work and add materials gradually. Among the most prominent features of the new version are:
- A more beautiful and better user interface.
- Adding written materials (PowerPoint Slides) for most of the lectures, which are available to everyone as an ongoing charity.
- Adding interactive tools (Interactive Sheets) for pharmaceutical calculations.
Technical Note: It is preferable to browse the website via a laptop or tablet to get the best experience, while you may encounter some minor difficulties when using it via a mobile phone.
Review of Academic Sections
1. Pharmacology 1
This section includes the basic topics studied academically, such as:
- Interactive Pharmacodynamics: Includes 9 lectures explaining how drugs affect the body, topics on receptors, efficacy, and is one of the closest topics to my specialization in the doctorate.
- Autonomic Nervous System: Includes 16 lectures presented in an easy way that makes the student love this topic, which many find complex.
- Antidepressants: 4 lectures covering the treatment of bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobia.
- Antipsychotics: 2 lectures for the treatment of schizophrenia and similar diseases.
- Epilepsy Drugs: 3 lectures.
- Anxiolytics and Hypnotics: 2 lectures.
2. Pharmacology 2
What has been uploaded so far includes:
- Endocrine Pharmacology: Includes pituitary hormones, thyroid drugs, corticosteroids, and diabetes drugs (in detail).
- General Principles of Drug Selection: Based on patient factors such as age and pregnancy.
- Antibiotics: Introduction and some basic groups.
- Anticoagulants: 3 lectures.
- Gastrointestinal Drugs: 2 lectures.
Therapeutics Section
This corner contains 71 lectures and clips, updated according to global recommendations (Guidelines) for 2021, and includes:
- Hypertension: 12 updated clips.
- Heart Failure: 11 clips.
- Deep Vein Thrombosis: 7 clips including the use of warfarin and heparin.
- Dyslipidemia: A long lecture.
- Chronic Renal Failure: 5 topics explaining how to deal with a renal failure patient and accompanying blood and bone disorders and adjusting drug doses.
- Psychiatric Disorders: Details on the treatment of depression, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy.
- Bone Diseases: 3 lectures.
Pharmacokinetics Section
This is one of my favorite sections and contains 53 lectures aimed at simplifying the calculations and laws that medical students usually dislike. The section includes:
- Concepts of absorption (Absorption), distribution (Distribution), metabolism (Metabolism), and excretion (Excretion).
- Practical applications for using the program (Boomer) and the website (FixPharma).
- Learning to Build Excel Tables: To enable the student to perform complex calculations and draw graphs with the press of a button.
- Drug Interactions: Whether kinetic or dynamic.
This corner is dedicated to teaching researchers and students how to access reliable information and contains clips explaining:
- How to find information about drug and chemical toxicity using the TOXNET website.
- Methods of extracting updated therapeutic guidelines (Guidelines) for diabetes, dyslipidemia, and others, instead of relying entirely on reference books whose information may become outdated.
- How to find the normal ranges (Normal Ranges) for laboratory tests for different ages.
- Determining the therapeutic range of the drug (Therapeutic Range) and knowing the minimum effective concentration and the maximum safe concentration.
2. Medical Benefits Corner
Currently contains 27 short clips (Shorts), which are very concentrated clips lasting one minute or less, aimed at providing quick medical advice that may contribute to saving a patient's life or alleviating their suffering.
3. Medical Terminology Book
A special book for medical and pharmaceutical terms has been added, which is available for direct download from the website. The book is characterized by:
- Filling the gap that students face in understanding the origin of terms.
- Focusing on what pharmacy, dentistry, and nursing students specifically need, without delving into complex anatomical details that concern only human medicine students.
- Explaining the roots (Word Roots), prefixes (Prefixes), and suffixes (Suffixes) in Latin and Greek and their equivalents in English and Arabic, supported by illustrative pictures.
One of the most distinctive features of the website is the presence of "interactive tables" (Interactive Sheets) for pharmacokinetic calculations, which were developed with distinguished effort by one of the outstanding students.
How to Use Interactive Tables:
When entering a model such as "Single Dose Extravascular One Compartment," you will find an interface divided into:
- Inputs: Where you enter data such as the dose (Dose), volume of distribution (VD), bioavailability coefficient (F), and absorption and elimination rate constants (Ka & Ke).
- Outputs: The website automatically calculates the results and displays them for you, such as:
- The half-life of the drug (T-half).
- The time required to reach the peak (T-max).
- The maximum concentration of the drug in the blood (C-max).
- The area under the curve (AUC).
- Drug clearance (Clearance).
These tools are very useful in practical life for pharmacists, and for students to ensure the correctness of their solutions to complex mathematical problems. More complex models, such as the "Two Compartment Model," are also available.
Conclusion and Future Aspirations
The website is under continuous development, and we will soon add high-quality lectures with distinguished scientific figures, such as lectures by Dr. Fawzi Abu Khalil on neurological diseases, and Dr. Faras Anabi on the topic of fasting and diabetes.
We ask God, the Most High, that this work be an ongoing charity from which Muslims everywhere may benefit, and we advise you to share the website with your colleagues so that the benefit may be widespread. This was a comprehensive summary of the pillars of the website and how to benefit from them.