مقرر علم الادوية

مقرر علم الادوية

مقرر المادة

اسم المقرر/مقرر علم الادوية

PHARMACOLOGY \Course Name

مساندة أو تخصصية/  تخصصية

اجبارية أو اختيارية /  اجبارية

 

  •  This course is designed to help the students for clear understanding the basic knowledge about commonly used groups of drugs, pharmacokinetics, mode of actions, pharmacological actions, and their therapeutic applications in various diseases and it also assures full understanding safe usage through learning their adverse effects including toxicity, contraindications and drug interactions.

  • Learning outcomes:

        By the end of the course, student should be able to:

    • Discuss the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics of different groups of drugs.
    • Sound awareness about the adverse effects including acute and chronic toxicity of commonly used groups, and their management.
    • Full awareness of limitations to the use of drugs such as contraindications and drug interactions.
    • Awareness about variations during drug application with regard age, sex and genetic related variations that affect response to drugs.
    • Good understanding the mechanism of action of drugs with regard pathophysiology of diseases which is essential for further proper choice of drugs.
    • Discuss the impact of preventive pharmacology in prevent illness.
    • Discuss the role, prevalence and limitations of alternative and complementary therapies commonly in use.
    • Discuss the principles and possible applications of gene therapy.
    • Define the basis of pharmaco-economics.

    Practical Objectives:

      • Practical experimental skills mainly on animals in vivo and in vitro (observe, record and analyze the effect of drugs on biological tissues) with illustration of different techniques of drug administration.
      • Write a prescription for selected important diseases.
      • Audit prescriptions citing multiple drugs.

    • 153 hours lectures with detailed explanation of drug applications and its pharmaco-properties
    • Practical pharmacology(40 hours): a course of 20 practical courses 2 hours each
    • experimental pharmacology: -routes drug administration ,handling of experimental animals, preparation of drug solutions in experimental pharmacology
    • clinical pharmacology: drug dosage forms and prescription writing for particular diseases e.g. ( congestive heart failure ,hypertension, anemia, peptic ulcer, bronchia, asthma, diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, angina pectoris ).
    • (40 hours) tutorial for all subjects of lectures

    • Written examination to assess knowledge and understanding and intellectual skills. Consists of both midterm examinations (( total of 60 marks )) (30%) and final written examination (( total of 180 marks )) (60%).
    • Oral examination to assess knowledge and understanding, attitude and general skills (( total of 30 marks )) (10%).
    • Practical examination to assess practical skills in analyzing drug prescriptions (( total of 30 marks )) (10%).
    • Total marks for this course 300 marks.

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