Course Objectives

• To make the students learn about various drugs acting on different body systems

Course Outcomes

• At the end of the course students will be be knowledgeable in the following areas:
  Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs.
  Drugs and their actions on different body systems
  Detailed study about different anesthetic drugs

Course Syllabus

Module -I: General Pharmacology Part I
Introduction, Routes of Drug Administration (local and systemic), Pharmacokinetics -
membrane transport, absorption, bioavailability, metabolism, plasma half life, excretion
and distribution of drugs
Module -II: General Pharmacology Part II
Pharmacodynamics – Mechanisms of drug actions – synergism and antagonism, agonist,
antagonist, synergist, Adverse Drug Reactions - drug to drug interaction, drug to food
interaction
Module -III: General Pharmacology Part III
Receptor pharmacology - G Protein coupled receptors, Ion channel receptors, Tyrosine
kinase - linked receptors, cytokine-receptor family, Receptors with intrinsic enzymatic
activity the receptor has intrinsic catalytic activity receptor tyrosine kinases.
Drug Nomenclature and Essential Drugs Concept
Module -IV: Cholinergic System
Cholinergic system – acetyl choline, cholinergic drugs, anticholinesterases, Irreversible
Anticholinesterases – classification, mechanism of action, indications, contra indications
and adverse effects
Module -V: Drugs for GIT and Antiemetics
Antihistamines – Histamine receptors, Classification, mechanism of action, routes of administration,
indications, contra indications and adverse effects.
Antacids - Classification, mechanism of action, routes of administration, indications, contra indications
and adverse effects.
Antiemetics - Classification, mechanism of action, routes of administration, indications, contra indications
and adverse effects.

Module -VI: Drugs for ANS
Autonomic nerves system – Basic Anatomy & functional organisation of sympathetic and
parasympathetic nervous system. List of drugs acting on ANS including dose, route of administration,
indications, contra indications and adverse effects
Module VII: Chemotherapy agents and other antibiotics
Chemotherapy – chemoprophylaxis, classification route of administration, indications, contra indications
and adverse effects
Antimicrobial agents - spectrum of activity, dose, routes of administration, indications,
contra indications and adverse effects of Tetracycline, aminoglycosides, metronidazole,
ceftriaxone, azythromycin, pencillin, ketoconazole, flucanozole, amphotericin B
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Essentials of Medical Pharmacology: K.D. Tripathi, 6th edition, Jaypee Publishers.

Session Plan

Session 1

Introduction to Pharmacology, Routes of Drug Administration (local and systemic)

Session 2

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