STFA0621p Pharmacology - lectures

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Alexandra Šulcová, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Eva McCaskey Hadašová, CSc. (lecturer)
Prof. MUDr. PhDr. Jan Kovařík, DrSc. (lecturer), prof. MUDr. Alexandra Šulcová, CSc. (deputy)
prof. MUDr. Jiří Vítovec, CSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Pavel Musil (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Alexandra Šulcová, CSc.
Department of Pharmacology – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: prof. MUDr. Alexandra Šulcová, CSc.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
VSPF0521c Pathophysiol. - pract. train. && VSPA0521c Pat.anatom.-pract.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • LECTURES ON PHARMACOLOGY (Thursday 4:20-6:00 p.m.) 6th Semester - Spring Semester 2006/2007
  • 22nd February, 2007: Introduction to pharmacology. The scope and historical development of modern pharmacology, its position in the system of medical education.
  • 1st March, 2007: Basic pharmacological terms, definitions. Types of pharmacotherapy and drug effects. Therapeutic Index. Teratogenic drug effects.
  • 8th March, 2007: Drug discovery and development, preclinical and clinical examination and evaluation. Regulation and guidelines for "Good Clinical Practice". Collaboration of experimental and clinical pharmacologists.
  • 15th March, 2007: Drug delivery approaches, routes of administration, prolonged release preparations.
  • 22nd March, 2007: Concentration-response relationship. Pharmacokinetic principles. Drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination
  • 29th March, 2007: Drug therapy in children, general principles, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic peculiaritis. Pharmacotherapy in neonates.
  • 5th April, 2007: Mechanisms of drug action, non-specific, specific. Classical receptors and ligand binding. Receptor subtypes, autoreceptors, heteroreceptors.
  • 12th April, 2007: Physiological and pathological factors influencing drug effects. Changes of drug effects after the repeated administration. Quantitative and qualitative deviations in drug effects, hypo-, and hyperergic reactions, allergy.
  • 19th April, 2007: Pharmacogenetics. Combined drug effects..
  • 26th April, 2007: Adverse drug effects. Toxic responses. The management of poisoning.
  • 3rd May, 2007: Purposeful pharmacotherapy. Importance of the pharmacological anamnesis, monitoring of drug pharmacotherapy, risk of pharmacotherapy.
  • 10th May, 2007: Autonomic nervous system, mediators, overview. Adrenergic mediation, alfa and beta sympatomimetics. Directly and indirectly acting sympatolytics. Pharmacology of alfa2 pre- and postsynaptic receptors.
  • 17th May, 2007: Cholinergic mediation. Directly acting parasympatomimetics, inhibitors of cholinesterase. Parasympatolytics. Ganglion blocking drugs. Myorelaxants. Pharmacology of the autonomic Enteric Nervous System.
  • 24th May, 2007: Analgesics, mechanisms of morphine and acetylsalicylic acid effects. Pain control in selected states. Nicotin, side effects, toxicity, clinical problems. Therapy and prevention of nicotinism.
  • 31st May, 2007 Anti-infective agents. Basic strategies of antimicrobial therapy, uses in pediatrics, during pregnancy and lactation, in patients with organ disorders.
Literature
  • Základní a aplikovaná farmakologie. Edited by Dagmar Lincová - Hassan Farghali. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2002, xxiv, 601. ISBN 80-246-0538-4. info
  • Šulcová, Alexandra. Poznámky k přednáškám z farmakologie. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993. 97 s. ISBN 80-210-0640-4.
  • DOSTÁLEK, Miroslav, Jan JUŘICA, Eva JANOŠTÍKOVÁ and Lucia ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ. Farmakokinetika (Pharmacokinetics). ČR: Grada, 2006, 220 pp. Farmacie a farmakologie. ISBN 80-247-1464-7. info
  • http://portal.med.muni.cz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=367
  • RANG, H. P. Pharmacology. 5th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2003, vii, 797. ISBN 0443071454. info
  • HOWLAND, Richard D. and Mary Julia MYCEK. Pharmacology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, vii, 552. ISBN 0781741181. info
  • Pharmaceutical Practice, 3rd Ed. Winfield, A.J. & Richards, R.M.E., eds. Churchill Livingstone, 2004, ISBN 0443 07206 X
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Výuka probíhá dvousemestrálne, formou prednášek (kontinuálne po celý semestr) a cvicení, vše je povinné. Ukoncení - rigorózní zkouška složená ze 2 cástí: I. praktická cást -preskripce léku, II. teoretická cást - ústní projev, student si vylosuje 1 otázku ze všeobecné farmakologie, 1 otázku ze speciální farmakologie, 2 otázky na detail (konkrétní lécivo); a písemný projev (test z lékové preskripce, multivýberový test).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010.
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