Pharmacology and Clinical Therapeutics

PHM 350 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This course is primarily concerned with clinical therapeutics and therapeutic decision making in such areas as cardiology, infectious disease, transplantation, cancer chemotherapy, neurology, psychiatry, metabolism, and the critically ill.

Emphasis is placed on clinical case discussions supplemented by more didactic lectures and panel discussions.  While the orientation of the course is clinical, such pharmacologic issues as receptor interaction, pharmacokinetics and dynamics, drug interactions, specificity and selectivity will be analyzed in the context of specific organ system involvement and treatment of disease states.

Issues in experimental therapeutics including analysis of the efficacy of new drugs, evaluation of clinical trials, and the design of clinical trials will also be discussed.

Course Manager: Julia Nadeau