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Pharmacology
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Pharmacology
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Academic year 2024/2025
- Course ID
- SCB0215
- Teachers
- Ilaria Bertocchi (Lecturer)
Loredana Serpe (Lecturer)
Massimo Collino (Coordinator)
Silvia De Francia (Lecturer) - Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Distinctive
- Credits/Recognition
- 7 (56 hours of lectures, 28 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- BIO/14 - pharmacology
- Delivery
- Blended
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Written and oral
- Prerequisites
- To attend the Course properly, the Student should have a solid background in Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology and Pathology
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The aim of the Course is to provide knowledge of the rational bases of drug therapy and the clinical applications of drugs, with specific insights on the molecular mechanisms of drug action and pharmacokinetics. At the end of the Course, the Student will be able to evaluate and describe the general properties of drugs, providing their possible clinical applications, taking into consideration chemical structure, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics and connections between pharmacological effects and adverse drug reactions.
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Results of learning outcomes
At the end of the Course, the Student will acquire knowledge and understanding of i) general principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, ii) main factors involved in the variability of drug response, iii) mechanisms of action of chemiotherapy and drugs acting on nervous and cardiovascular system. Applying the knowledge and understanding acquired with the lectures and integrating them with those derived by other biomedical and clinical courses, the Student should be able to understand the rational bases for the clinical use of drugs, predicting the pharmacological effects both from diagnostic/therapeutic and toxicological point of view.
In particular, the learning outcomes will be:
- Knowledge and understanding ability
the Student will be able to learn and understand the topics of the Pharmacology program
- Applying knowledge and understanding
the Student will be able to apply the knowledge and to understand Pharmacology with diagnostic, preventive, curative and surgical purposes
- Independent Judgement
the Student will be able to develop a good judgment and analysis autonomy on pharmacological problems
- Communication skills
the Student will be able to develop good communication skills and suitable language properties in the didactic field
- Learning skills
the Student will be able to develop functional organizational and learning skills in future institutional settings.
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Program
1st Part (General principles):
- Cellular and molecular pharmacology.
- Principles of pharmacokinetics.
- Pharmacology on neurotransmitter systems.
- Drug interactions.
- Variability in drug responses.
- Principles of toxicology.
2nd part (Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics):
- Drugs affecting gastrointestinal tract.
- Drugs affecting respiratory tract.
- Endocrine drugs.
- Cardiovascular-renal drugs.
- Drugs used to treat diseases of the blood.
- Drugs used to treat inflammation and gout.
- Antimicrobic and antineoplastic agents.
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Course delivery
The course delivery will be given by frontal lessons.
Pdf material will be sent to the students.
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Learning assessment methods
Exam: written test + oral interview
Learning will be verified by a written test followed by oral interview on the entire program during the same exam session.
Written test:
The written test will be structured on the basis of 32 multiple choice questions (1.0 points for each correct answer; wrong answers will have a penalty of -0.25). The written test lasts 20 min
Questions will be provided through the Moodle platform and it is based on sequential navigation mode, which requires students to complete the test in order and prohibits students from returning to skipped questions.
Those who are unable to use their own device to take the written test are asked to send an email to teachers WITHIN 48 hours before the exam.
The outcome of the written test will be recorded in correspondence with the WRITTEN PHARMACOLOGY exam.
Oral exam:
In case of a score of at least 18/30 for the written test, the student will have to take the oral interview.
Failure to attend the oral test will result in being recorded as a WITHDRAWAL STUDENT and the Candidate will have to take the written exam again.
The evaluation of the oral test will take into consideration: knowledge of the proposed topic, the ability to discursively organize knowledge, to develop critical reasoning on the subject, to develop an appropriate vocabulary and to have a correct ability of expression.
In case of a negative outcome of the oral test, the exam will have to be entirely repeated (written and oral).
The marks for both tests (written and oral tests both with score ≥18/30) will be expressed out of thirty and the final mark will be the average of the marks from the two tests.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Goodman & Gilman's: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 13e
- Year of publication:
- 2018
- Publisher:
- McGraw Hill
- Author:
- Laurence L. Brunton, Randa Hilal-Dandan, Björn C. Knollmann
- ISBN
- Required:
- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Goodman and Gilman's Manual of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Second Edition,
- Year of publication:
- 2014
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill
- Author:
- Randa Hilal-Dandan, Laurence L. Brunton
- ISBN
- Required:
- No
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Notes
Students with DSA or disabilities are kindly requested to take note of the reception services and support services offered by the University of Turin, and in particular of the procedures required for exam support.
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