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Pharmacology

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GOAL
The broad goal of teaching pharmacology to undergraduate MBBS students is to provide them with a scientific understanding of therapeutics and equip them with the skills for rational prescribing during their second year of medical training.
OBJECTIVES
During the training, students should acquire the following competencies, knowledge and skills to apply basic principles of pharmacology and therapeutics and to inculcate a rational and scientific basis of therapeutics.
- Competencies
  The undergraduate must demonstrate:
  1. Knowledge about essential and commonly used drugs and an understanding of the pharmacologic basis of therapeutics.
  2. Ability to select and prescribe medicines based on clinical condition and the pharmacologic properties, efficacy, safety, suitability and cost of medicines for common clinical conditions of national importance.
  3. Knowledge of pharmacovigilance, essential medicine concept and sources of drug information and industry-doctor relationship.
  4. Ability to counsel patients regarding appropriate use of prescribed drug and drug delivery systems.
- Knowledge
  At the end of the course the student shall be able to:
  1. Describe the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of essential and commonly used drugs.
  2. Enlist the indications, contraindications, interactions and adverse reactions of commonly used drugs.
  3. Tailor the use of appropriate drugs in disease with consideration of its cost, efficacy and safety for
    a. Individual needs and
    b. Mass therapy, under National Health Programs.
  4. Integrate the list of drugs of addiction and recommend the management of drug addiction.
  5. Explain pharmacological basis of prescribing drugs in special medical situations such as pregnancy, lactation, infancy, old age, renal damage, hepatic damage and immunocompromised patients.
  6. Explain the concept of rational drug therapy in clinical pharmacology.
  7. State the principles underlying the concept of 'Essential Drugs'.
  8. Evaluate the ethics and modalities involved in the development and introduction of new drugs.
- Skills
  At the end of the course, the student shall be able to:
  1. Prescribe drugs for common ailments.
  2. Identify adverse reactions and drug interactions of commonly used drugs.
  3. Interpret the data obtained from the experiments designed for the study of effect of drugs in various experimental and clinical studies.
  4. Analyze the information regarding common pharmaceutical preparations and critically evaluate drug formulations.
  5. Appraise the Principles of Clinical Pharmacy and Dispense the Medications giving proper instructions.