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PHS 111 Introduction to Pharmacology and Therapeutics

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences15 topics

PHS 111 covers 15 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Meaning of pharmacology
  2. Divisions and basic terminologies in pharmacology
  3. Properties and characteristics of drugs
  4. Origin of clinical pharmacology
  5. Drug administration routes and measurement systems
  6. Pharmacology and toxicology
  7. Drug categories, generic and trade names
  8. Therapeutic actions and rationale for drug use
  9. Adverse effects, allergy, abuse, misuse and tolerance
  10. Drug legislation, safety and regulatory agencies
  11. Pharmaceutical microbiology and infectious disease control
  12. Sterilization and disinfection methods
  13. Antimicrobials and antibiotic production
  14. Drug potency, efficacy, sensitivity and inhibitory concentrations
  15. Drug toxicity evaluation, pharmaceutical quality, cancer chemotherapy and drug resistance

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Meaning of pharmacology

Pharmacology is the science that investigates the properties, actions, and uses of drugs, including how they are absorbed, distributed, metabolised, and excreted, as well as their therapeutic and adverse effects.

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