Learning Outcomes
After the successful completion of the practical courses, the students will be able to:
1. Recognise pharmaceutical forms,
2. Calculate dosage regimens and prescribe,
3. Administer injectable formulations,
4. Classify drugs as potent or/and efficaceous based on response curves and on minimum-mean-maximum active dose, 5. Select the proper therapeutic regimen based on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the drugs.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Pharmaceutical Forms (tutorial)
Drug prescription (tutorial)
Drug administration routes (in lab animals)
General anaesthesia (in lab animals)
Pharmacodynamics (dose-response curves; Emax, Emin, ED50 values; receptors; competitive and non-competitive antagonism, computer simulation)
Pharmacodynamic studies (mechanism of action, actions and interactions) of several drugs on isolated vessels (computer simulation)
Pharmacodynamic studies (mechanism of action, actions and interactions) of several drugs on the isolated heart (computer simulation)
Actions and interactions of several drugs affecting the gastrointestinal motility (experiments on isolated gastrointestinal preparations of lab animals)
Pharmacokinetics I: Drug absorption (Seminar)
Pharmacokinetics I: Drug distribution (Seminar)
Pharmacokinetics III: Drug elimination – Excretion and metabolism (Seminar)
Pharmacokinetics IV: Exercises
Keywords
Pharmaceutical Forms, drug prescription, drug administration routes, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, general anesthesia, isolated tissue preparations