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Pharmacology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:26.01.2023 11:32:08
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LF_023 | LQF level: | Level 5 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Petermane | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | RSU Liepāja Branch | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Liepaja, 24/26 Riņķu Street, lf rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 63442118, +371 63442119, +371 63484632 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 11 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 22 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | In anatomy, physiology, chemistry, biochemistry, pathology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | For the students to acquire knowledge of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacological groups of drugs and preparations, their administration, basic principles of formulation. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | General pharmacology and dosage forms. Insight into formulation, e-prescription. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Pharmacology of efferent, afferent pathways. Effects of the sympathetic and parasympathetic NS. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Pharmacology of efferent pathways. Cholinergic medications. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Pharmacology of efferent pathways. Adrenergic medications. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Pharmacology of afferent pathways. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Pharmacology of the CNS. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Pharmacology of agents affecting the CNS. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Pharmacology of metabolism. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Pharmacology of agents affecting metabolism. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Antimicrobial agents I. Antibiotics and synthetic antimicrobials. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Antimicrobials. Antiseptics, antiparasitic agents. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Formulation exercises, dosage calculations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Preparation for seminars – to prepare answers to topic control questions, search for and prepare information on the medicines covered in the topic, prepare a research paper on dose calculations, prescribing. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Participation in seminars. Completion of all independent work, successful assessment in topic-based test works and a written examination at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | As a result of completing the study course, students will know the general regularities of drug action and the terms used in pharmacology, recognise the effects of the peripheral nervous system in the body, be able to name the main groups and examples of medicines affecting the nervous system and metabolic processes, as well as antimicrobials, describing their effects, indications and characteristic side effects. Students will know basic information about the types and basic principles of prescription, dosage calculations. | ||||||||
| Skills: | As a result of completing the study course, students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in the analysis of medications prescribed to patients. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to integrate the knowledge and skills acquired: • in the process of treating patients, analysing and evaluating the action, indications, side effects of the medicines prescribed to patients and independently seeking additional information about them, as well as other medicines used in treatment; • in the clinical pharmacology and internal medicine study courses in the future study process. | ||||||||
| Clinical Skills: | |||||||||
| No. | Skill | Level | |||||||
| 1 | Breezhaler inhalers usage | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 2 | Diskus inhalers usage | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 3 | Genuair inhalers usage | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 4 | Handihaler inhalers usage | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 5 | Metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with spacer and mask usage | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 6 | Metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with spacer usage | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 7 | Metered-dose inhaler (MDI) without spacer usage | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| 8 | Usage of blood glucose meter | A - Beginner level | |||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Purviņš, I., Purviņa, S. Praktiskā farmakoloģija. 4. Izdevums, ZIC, 2011 (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Lekciju materiāli RSU e- studijās. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. 15th Edition. 2021 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/ | ||||||||
| 2 | www.vm.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 3 | www.EMCDDA.europa.eu/ | ||||||||
| 4 | Latvijas Zāļu valsts aģentūras Zāļu patēriņa statistika | ||||||||
