Download VNSGU MBBS 2nd Year Pharmacology Total Number of Teaching Hours

Download VNSGU (Veer Narmad South Gujarat University) MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) Second Year (2nd Year) Pharmacology Total Number of Teaching Hours

VEER NARMAD SOUTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, SURAT.
S.Y. M.B.B.S.

Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

1. Goal

The broad goal of teaching pharmacology to undergraduate students is to inculcate in them a
rational and scientific basis of therapeutics.
2. Educational objectives
(a) Knowledge

At the end of the course, the student shall be able to -
i. describe the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of essential and commonly used
drugs
ii. list the indications, contraindications, interactions and adverse reactions of commonly
used drugs
iii. indicate the use of appropriate drug in a particular disease with consideration of its cost,
efficacy and safety for -
? individual needs, and
? mass therapy under national health programmes
iv describe the pharmacokinetic basis, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of
common poisonings
v Integrate the list the drugs of addiction and recommend the management
vi. Classify environmental and occupational pollutants and state the management issues
vii. Explain pharmacological basis of prescribing drugs in special medical situations such as
pregnancy, lactation, infancy and old age
vii explain the concept of rational drug therapy in clinical pharmacology
viii state the principles underlying the concept of `Essential Drugs'
ix evaluate the ethics and modalities involved in the development and introduction of new
drugs
(b) Skills

At the end of the course, the student shall be able to -
i. prescribe drugs for common ailments
ii. identify adverse reactions and interactions of commonly used drugs
iii. interpret the data of experiments designed for the study of effects of drugs and bioassays
which are observed during the study
iv. scan information on common pharmaceutical preparations and critically evaluate drug
formulations
v. be well-conversant with the principles of pharmacy and dispense the medications giving
proper instructions

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(c) Integration

Practical knowledge of rational use of drugs in clinical practice will be acquired through
integrated teaching vertically with pre-clinical & clinical subjects and horizontally with other
para-clinical subjects.
3. Total duration of para-clinical teaching
3
Semesters
(III,IV,V)
Total
360
teaching
days

Total number of teaching hours allotted to Pharmacology 300
hours
4. Syllabus
a. Learning methods
Lectures, tutorials, Practicals
Distribution of teaching hours
Theory
? lectures
..........109
?

5
? tutorials
..........17
?

5
Total
126
?
10

B)
Practicals
..........120
?
5
C) Revision & Evaluation (Internal Assessment)
...........60

b. & c. Sequential organisation of contents & their division
A) INTRODUCTION: Pharmacology - a foundation to clinical practice

(N=1)
Development of the branch of pharmacology; Scope of the subject; role of drugs
as one of the modalities to treat diseases,
definition of drug;
nature and sources of drugs;
subdivisions of pharmacology
rational pharmacotherapy

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