Pharmacology

• Discipline objectives
• The discipline

Discipline objectives

Pharmacology is concerned with the effect of chemicals on living tissues. Students studying pharmacology will, at the end of the program, understand:

• the sites and mechanisms of action of drugs;
• qualitative and quantitative aspects of drug interactions with living systems;
• the therapeutic applications of major drug groups used in medicine;
• other aspects of pharmacology and toxicology such as drug safety, drug evaluation, agricultural applications, environmental pollutants, and food additives.

The discipline

Pharmacology and toxicology for third-year students is presented in two twelve-point subjects, one in each semester, PHA3011 and PHA3022. To complete the forty-eight-point total for third-year studies, these two subjects may be combined with subjects in other disciplines according to BSc course requirements. Such studies frequently include any of the biological/medical disciplines, chemistry or law. The prerequisite for PHA3011 is normally an adequate performance in second-year physiology. It is advised that previous subjects should also include biochemistry or chemistry at second-year level.

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