Pharmacology

The course aims to offer students a broad overview of the principles of General Pharmacology, including the issue of polytherapy and drug interaction, and a thorough exposition of Clinical Pharmacology. Principal aims of this course are that students: i) acquire up-to-date knowledge on drugs, ii) learn relevance of the correct use of drugs in the context of therapeutic approaches to different disorders; iii) acquire the tools for future updating their knowledge in the field.

Students will acquire adequate tools to understand the relevant parameters of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and the methods of their correct use in patient management. Students will learn names, mechanisms of action, therapeutic indications, contraindications, side effects, and appropriate administration procedures of the main drugs.