About Pharmacology Department

Goal
The broad goal of teaching pharmacology to undergraduate students is to inculcate in them a rational and scientific basis of therapeutics and to enhance Attitude, ethics and communication skills.

Objectives

Knowledge

• Describe the pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of essential and commonly used drugs
• List the indications, contraindications, interactions and adverse reaction of commonly used drugs
• Indicate the use of appropriate drugs in a particular disease with consideration of its cost, efficacy and safety for –
  i)   individual needs, and
  ii   )mass therapy under national health programmes
• Describe the pharmacokinetic basis, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of common poisonings.
• Drugs of addiction and recommend the management
• Classify environmental and occupational pollutants and state the management issues
• Indicate causations in prescribing drugs in special medical situations such as pregnancy, lactation, infancy and old age.
• Integrate the concept of rational drug therapy in clinical pharmacology.
• State the principles underlying the concept of ‘Essential Drugs’.
• Evaluate the ethics and modalities involved in the development and introduction of new drugs.

Skills

• Prescribe drugs for common ailments.
• Recognize adverse reaction and interactions of commonly used drugs
• Interpret the data of experiments designed of the study of effects of drugs and bioassays which are observe during the study.
• Scan information on common pharmaceutical preparations and critically evaluate drug formulations.