Pharmacotherapeutics BIPH 5260

Course description:

The course covers therapeutic regimens for important prevalent diseases, including non-pharmacological approaches, pharmacotherapeutic requirements for treatment of pediatric and geriatric patients, and for pregnant and lactating mothers, immuno-compromised patients, patients with reduced organ function, and those with multi-morbidities, importance of form and route of administration, dialysis procedures, characteristics of certain therapeutic regimens, particularly with regard to anti-infective therapy, oncological therapy, and supportive therapy, anticoagulant therapy, immuno- and therapy of patients in intensive care.

Course Aims:

Pharmacotherapeutics aims to provide the student with an integrated and intricate knowledge relating to the physiology, anatomy, pathophysiology, epidemiology, goals of therapy, pharmacological treatment, supportive and complementary therapies of disease states covered within the course. The course supplies the student with a knowledge and skill base that promotes the safe, effective and quality use of medicines, thereby providing better health outcomes for patients. 

Course outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:  
  • Recognize definitions, classifications, etiology, symptoms, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis, risk factors, & clinical features of different diseases & their pharmacotherapeutic approaches. 
  • Specify pharmacological properties of drugs used in the management of several diseases including mechanisms of actions, therapeutic uses, dosage, contra- indications, adverse drug reactions & drug interactions. 
  • Specify non-pharmacological management of several diseases.