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PTP 126 Action and Uses of Medicines I

ND1 level15 topics

PTP 126 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. Sources of common medicines
  2. Drugs, medicines and illicit drugs
  3. Drug design technology
  4. Introduction to pharmacology
  5. Pharmacology terminology
  6. Branches of pharmacology
  7. Essential medicines
  8. Pharmacokinetics: absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion
  9. Drug actions and mechanisms of action
  10. Drug nomenclature: generic, proprietary and brand names
  11. Routes of drug administration and dosage
  12. Factors modifying drug effects
  13. Classification of drugs by action
  14. Gastrointestinal, respiratory and anti-infective drugs
  15. Skeletal, musculoskeletal and joint disease drugs

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Sources of common medicines

Students must grasp the major origins of medicines—natural (plants, animals, microbes), synthetic, semi‑synthetic, and biotechnological products—to answer questions on drug discovery and classification. Knowing these sources helps identify the drug’s chemical nature, typical therapeutic class, and potential side‑effect profile, all of which are frequently tested in the NUC CCMAS and NBTE exams.

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