??Division of Clinical Pharmacology?
?Division of Clinical Pharmacology?
Undergraduate Programmes
We are responsible for teaching the principles of Clinical Pharmacology to undergraduate medical students. We have the following structured undergraduate Clinical Pharmacology teaching blocks during MB, ChB I and MB, ChB V:
- MB, ChB I – Principles of Therapy
- MB, ChB IV – Clinical Pharmacology
We conduct bedside and other clinical pharmacology teaching activities when MB, ChB III, IV, V and VI students rotate through Internal Medicine.
MB, ChB I Principles of Therapy 141
This module includes the following topics:
- Introductory aspects if pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- Pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system
- Drugs for the control of pain and inflammation
- Chemotherapeutic drugs acting against bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites
- Pharmacology of the endocrine system
- Evidence-based medicine
- Principles of physiotherapy in the treatment of pain
- Principles of surgery
MB, ChB IV Clinical Pharmacology 471
This module includes the following topics:??
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacodynamics
- Drug-drug interactions
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Prescribing in special populations: renal impairment, hepatic impairment, elderly, pregnancy, lactation, critically ill and children
- Drug safety and adverse drug reactions
- Prescription writing and scheduling of medicines
- Therapeutics of allergic rhinitis, asthma and COPD
- Therapeutics of infectious diseases: principles of antibiotic prescribing, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria
- Management of common poisonings
- Evidence-based health care
- Therapeutics of gout, arthritis and pain
- Therapeutics of endocrine diseases: diabetes, osteoporosis, thyroid disease and endocrine emergencies
- Therapeutics of cardiovascular diseases: acute coronary syndromes, cardiac failure, lipid disorders and anticoagulation
- Psychopharmacology: management of depression, psychosis and epilepsy
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