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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 V – 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 V Clinical Pharmacology 511

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