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PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS I

Category: Department of Clinical Medicine & Surgery

Faculty: Faculty of Clinical Sciences

Year of Study: 1

Semester: 1

Code: PTH 113

Hours: 30

Credit: 3

Competence

Apply principles and concepts in pharmacology and therapeutics and treat parasitic infections effectively.

Outcomes

Explain the principles and concepts of pharmacology and therapeutics
Demonstrate understanding of absorption, bioavailability, distribution, biotransformation and elimination of drugs
Apply principles of drug mode of action, drug interactions, adverse effects, and manage adverse drug reactions

Module Content

Introduction to Pharmacology and Therapeutics; definitions of terminologies, general principles and concepts in pharmacology and therapeutics, sources of drugs, formulations/preparations of drugs, classification and naming of drugs, routes of drug administration, the concept of essential drugs and rational use of drugs, Pharmacy and Poisons Act & Dangerous Drugs Act, principles of drug prescribing.

Pharmacokinetics; drug movement across biological membranes, drug absorption and bioavailability, drug distribution and plasma protein binding, drug metabolism, excretion of drugs, biological half-life of drugs.

Pharmacodynamics; importance, site of drug action, structure-activity relationships, mechanisms of drug action, dose-response relationships - drug potency, efficacy & therapeutic index, factors modifying drug action, unwanted (adverse) effects of drugs (causes, classification, prevention of adverse effects of drugs), allergy in response to drugs, effects of drugs on reproduction.

Anti-parasitic Agents: anthelmintics, antiprotozoal agents (antimalarial agents, antiamoebic agents, antileishmania agents, antitrypanosoma agents).

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