Pharmacology | PESUIMSR

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

Vision

To create competent professionals equipped for practice of evidence based medicine

Mission

To inculcate a rational & scientific basis of therapeutics

Goal

To ensure that the student has knowledge about the drugs and their practical application in clinical practice

Objectives

To understand the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of essential and commonly used drugs.
List the indications, contraindications, interactions and adverse reactions of commonly used drugs
Indicate the use of appropriate drug in a particular disease with consideration to its cost, efficacy and safety for
Individual needs

(ii) Mass therapy under national health programmes

Indicate causations in prescription of drugs in special medical situations such as pregnancy, lactation, infancy and old age.
Integrate the concept of rational drug therapy in clinical pharmacology and understand the principles underlying the concept of essential drugs.
Evaluate the ethics and modalities involved in the development and introduction of new drugs.

POSTGRADUATE TEACHING

Vision

To create competent professionals equipped in the basis of therapeutics, drug development , cutting edge research and innovative teaching

Mission

To train the medical graduate to be an effective leader of a health team engaged in education, health care, research or industry

Goals

To train a medical graduate to be a Pharmacologist who is well versed with the basic principles of Pharmacology and is up to date with the recent advances.

To arouse a spirit of scientific reasoning and inquiry
To provide orientation to the principles of research methodology and epidemiology
Acquisition of skills related to teaching.

Objectives

To acquire knowledge of basic and applied pharmacology
To understand the basis of drug regulations, clinical research and pharmacotherapeutics
Demonstrate competence in basic concepts of research methodology and epidemiology,
Design and implement research projects including basic invivo , invitro experiments on small animals and human studies in concurrence with relevant ethical guidelines.
Perform drug assays, therapeutic drug monitoring and manage adverse drug reaction reporting and causality assessment.
Develop skills in using educational methods and techniques as applicable to the teaching of medical/nursing students and paramedical health workers.
Develop medical writing skills and be able to critically analyze relevant published research literature.

Demonstrate ability to build, lead and work in a team maintaining good interpersonal relationships with effective communication skills.