I am teaching Veterinary Pharmacology and it seems striking the differences in comprehension and retention among those students who have worked in the field for a while and are familiar with the drugs on a practical level vs those who are new and are learning all from scratch. The practical experience that people have seems to cement the theory of why the drugs work so much more easily than people unfamilar with the drugs. My question would be...how do I make the long lists of drug names and functions more "real" to those without previous exposure?