- Docente: Elisabetta Poluzzi
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
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
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
Interactive lectures.
Assessment 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 Elisabetta Poluzzi
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.