AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know the principles of general pharmacology:
• pharmacokinetic parameters
• biological monitoring
• alteration of laboratory parameters induced by drugs
• drug interactions

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The overall outcome of the course of pharmacology and pharmaceutical galenic is to instruct students toward the attitude to regard drugs as clinical tools that interact with endogenous constituents producing effects that affect, directly or indirectly patient's health. Moreover, the course will consider the most frequent causes of analytical parameters induced by drugs or improper procedures in sample analysis. The course will also introduce students to basic principles of galenic preparation of drugs 

TEACHING METHODS

The couse will be composed of front lessons. Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Basic principles of pharmacology

Pharmacokinetics

• Routes of administration, absorption, distribution , metabolism and elimination of drugs    
• Pharmacokinetics parateters

Pharmacodynamic

• Drug targets, binding and intrinsic activity; agonists and antagonists.
• Side effects of drugs; mechanisms of tolerance and hypersensitivity to drugs. 

Pitfalls in drug testing         

Basic principles on galenic preparations

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ed. Taglialatela, Conforti, et al. "Farmacologia". eds. Sorbona

PDF files containing the slides that have peen projected will be available on the section of aulaweb of unige website

2023.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=10078

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

STEFANO THELLUNG DE COURTELARY (President)

ANTONIO DI BIAGIO

GIUSEPPE MURDACA

FRANCESCA MATTIOLI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

The teaching belongs to the second semester; lessons chronology will be published on the website www.unige.it

Class schedule

PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL GALENICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam will consist of an interview. The score will be used to obtain the average with the other sections of the course  

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The purpose of the exam is to verify the the capacity of students to describe the kinetic and dynamic behavior of drugs in the body. In particular, the procedures required to obtain pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters and their role in the personalization of therapy will be considered worthy of maximal rating

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

The exams regarding the four sections that compose the course of farmacologia, malattie infettive e medicina interna must be passed contextually. Any score below 18 on 30 in farmacologia e galenica farmaceutica will  require the student obligation to repeat the exams related to all the sections that compose the course