97196 - Clinical Pharmacology of Anti-Infectious Agents

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Federico Pea
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/17
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

1. Knowledge of the main classes of anti-infective drugs (mechanism of action, spectrum of action, therapeutic indications, dosage, pharmacological interactions, adverse events) 2. Guided application of this knowledge in order to set the most appropriate anti-infective therapy infection in the various clinical situations 3. Independent evaluation for the choice of the most appropriate anti-infective therapies in the various clinical situations 4. Ability to transmit one's knowledge 5. Ability to learn and apply new acquisitions in the field of anti-infective therapy

Course contents

1. Clinical pharmacology of antibacterials


2. Clinical pharmacology of antifungals


3. Clinical pharmacology of antivirals


4. Drug interactions

Readings/Bibliography

Goodman and Gilman The pharmacological basis of therapy 13th edition - Zanichelli Editor

Teaching methods

Lectures with discussion of clinical cases

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Office hours

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