- Docente: Pier Giorgio Cojutti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: BIO/14
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Pier Giorgio Cojutti (Modulo 1) Milo Gatti (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)
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from Oct 05, 2023 to Dec 12, 2023
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from Mar 01, 2024 to Mar 12, 2024
Learning outcomes
The course provides knowledge in the following areas:
- basic principles of pharmacology
- pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics
- therapeutic use of drugs
- basic principles to understand variability in drug response (genetic factors, concomitant disease, drug interactions, etc.)
- basic principles of clinical pharmacology, pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology.
Course contents
Course contents
Pharmacokinetics; routes of drug administration; absorption; distribution; drug metabolism; excretion; main pharmacokinetic paramethers.
Pharmacodynamics; main mechanism of action of drugs, agonist and antagonists; dose-response curves; adverse effects.
Readings/Bibliography
Goodman and Gilman's Manual of Pharmacology and Therapeutics - SECOND EDITION - Randa Hilal-Dandan, Laurence L. Brunton - McGraw-Hill, 2014
Teaching methods
Oral examination to assess achievement of the skills detailed in the learning outcomes (see the Italian version for details)
Teaching tools
Teaching material (access restricted to UNIBO student) can be downloaded from the institutional repository.
Office hours
See the website of Pier Giorgio Cojutti
See the website of Milo Gatti