PHA3021 Drugs in health and disease

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Explain the major principles underlying the therapeutic use of drugs, including the relevance and assessment of evidence-based medicine;

2. 2

   Apply knowledge of the actions of major drug classes to explain their therapeutic applications and potential adverse effects;

3. 3

   Use knowledge of the mechanisms of drug action to predict effects in intact organisms;

4. 4

   Demonstrate the ability to execute pharmacological experiments to obtain, analyse and interpret data and present this in a written report;

5. 5

   Demonstrate the ability to undertake literature based research to source and critically evaluate information relevant to current topics in pharmacology and to effectively communicate ideas in oral, visual or written forms.