00351 - Pharmacology

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student should have the knowledge and skills to understand the processes of health care organizations in order to promote the achievement of safe, effective, efficient, relevant, appropriately health care services.

Course contents

1) The clinical development of drugs and marketing authorization (MA) procedures.

2) Therapeutic innovation of drugs: classification and examples.

3) The surveillance of adverse drug reactions in daily practice.

4) Drug-drug interactions.

5) To prevent errors in therapy: classification and examples.

6) Scientific and regulatory issues and place in therapy for generic drugs and biosimilars.

7) The national and regional pharmaceutical handbook with notes on the classification of drugs according to their prescribing and reimbursement.

8) Factors affetting inter-individual variations in drug responses: the pharmacogenetics.

9) Sex and gender differences in pharmacology.

10) Resolution of clinical cases related to the topics discussed.

Readings/Bibliography

Slides and lecture notes.

Teaching methods

Lectures and resolution of clinical cases.

Assessment methods

The assessment of the knowledge gained by the student is based on the administration of a questionnaire consisting of 30 items, with true/false answer, equally distributed among the 10 topic of the programme.

Teaching tools

Video-projector.

Office hours

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