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
