ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
Areas: Pharmacology
Center Faculty of Pharmacy
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- To help students to understand and apply the knowledge about pharmacological actions and mechanism of action of the drugs.
- To transmit essential information about therapeutic applications and adverse reactions of drugs in order to understand how prescriptions must be directed to obtain the maximum beneficial effects and the minimum adverse reactions.
Introduction. Pharmacology as a science.
Section I. General Pharmacology: Pharmacokinetics. Absorption of drugs. Distribution of drugs. Biotransformation of drugs. Excretion of drugs. Place of drugs action. Quantitative analysis of the pharmacological effect. Adverse reactions of drugs. Adverse reactions of special consideration. Variations in drugs response. Variations in the response due to the therapy with several drugs. Variations in drugs response due to individual differences. Development of new drugs.
Section II. Cellular Mediators Pharmacology: Paracrine communication. Biogenic amines: histamine and 5-hydroxytriptamine. Peptide mediators. Lipid mediators. Other local mediators.
Section III. Peripherical Nervous System Pharmacology: Neurotransmission in the autonomous and peripheral nervous system. Catecholaminergic transmission. Pharmacological modulation of noradrenergic transmission and adrenergic receptors. Cholinergic transmission. Pharmacological modulation of muscarinic receptors. Pharmacological modulation of nicotinic receptors. Local anaesthetics.
Basic bibliography
- Rang y Dale. Farmacología. Rang HP, Ritter JM, Flower RJ, Henderson G. 8ª ed. Elsevier; 2020.
- Goodman & Gilman. Las bases farmacológicas de la Terapéutica. 14 Ed. Brunton L, Chabner B, Knollman B. ed. McGraw-Hill; 2022.
- Flórez J. Farmacología Humana. 6ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier-Masson; 2014.
Bibliografía complementaria
- Lüllmann H, Mohr K, Hein L. Farmacología. Texto y Atlas. 6ª ed. Panamericana; 2010.
- Netter: Farmacología Ilustrada. 1ª ed. Autores: Raffa R, Beyzarov EP, Rawls SM. Barcelona. Elsevier-Masson; 2008.
Knowledge:
General and specific knowledge to which the training to be developed will be aimed at achieving
Kn 02. Know the therapeutic and toxic effects of substances with pharmacological activity.
Kn 04. Acquire knowledge to design, prepare, supply and dispense medicines and other products of health interest.
Kn 06. Acquire basic knowledge in clinical management, health economics and efficient use of health resources to promote the rational use of medicines and health products.
Kn 07. Know, evaluate and assess problems related to drugs and medications, as well as participate in pharmacovigilance activities.
Kn 21. Know the properties of cell membranes and the distribution of drugs.
Kn 23. Know the main metabolic routes involved in the degradation of drugs.
Kn 25. Know the processes of release, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs, and factors that condition absorption and disposition depending on their routes of administration.
Kn 31. Know how to safely use medications taking into account their physical and chemical properties, including any risks associated with their use.
Kn 33. Know the effects of substances with pharmacological activity.
Kn 34. Know and understand the techniques used in the design and evaluation of preclinical and clinical trials.
Kn 37. Know and understand the structure and function of the human body, as well as the general mechanisms of the disease, molecular, structural and functional alterations, syndromic expression and therapeutic tools to restore health.
Skills or abilities
H/D01. Intervene in health promotion and disease prevention activities at the individual, family and community levels; with a comprehensive and multiprofessional vision of the health-disease process.
H/D05. Develop communication and information skills, both oral and written, to treat patients and users of the center where you carry out your professional activity.
H/D06. Promote work and collaboration skills in multidisciplinary teams and those related to other health professionals.
H/D18. Promote the rational use of medicines and health products.
Competencies
Instrumental skills
Comp 01. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
Comp 05. Basic computer handling skills.
Comp 06. Information management skills (ability to search and analyze information from diverse sources).
Comp 08. Decision making.
Interpersonal skills
Comp 13. Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team
Comp 14. Ability to communicate with experts from other areas.
Systemic competencies
Comp 18. Ability to apply knowledge in practice.
Comp 20. Ability to learn.
In magisterial classes will use the same scheme than in magisterial lectures.
Seminars will be based on students’ participation, individually or in small groups, carrying out activities that are a complement to the theoretical classes, such as discussion of pharmacological treatments, solving of problems constituting a direct application of the most important pharmacological concepts, discussion of clinical cases, etc.
Interactive lab classes are structured in 4 sessions, in which small groups of students, will use computer programs (one computer per student) to simulate of pharmacological experiments in which they can find valuable support for understanding basic knowledge of both general pharmacology and aspects related to different therapeutic groups.
Small group tutoring: They represent for each student 2 hours per semester and subject. They will be used to resolve doubts.
Students will have a version of the subject from the virtual USC service ("Campus Virtual").
For training activities in the virtual environment, the “Campus Virtual” and other available institutional tools such as MS Teams / MS Forms and / or others that may be enabled for this purpose will be used.
All the evaluation modalities indicated listed (sections 1-3) will serve to determine the level achieved by the students in the acquisition of knowledge, skills and instrumental, interpersonal, and systemic competencies included in this programming. The knowledge referred to as Kn02, Kn04, Kn06, Kn07, Kn21, Kn23, Kn25, Kn31, Kn33, Kn34, Kn37 will be evaluated fundamentally in the written exam and the knowledge Kn02, Kn04, Kn06, Kn07, Kn21, Kn23, Kn25, Kn31, Kn33, Kn34, H/D18, Kn37, the skills H/D01, H/D05, H/D06, H/D18 and the instrumental, interpersonal and systemic competencies Comp01, Comp05, Comp06, Comp08, Comp13, Comp14, Comp18 and Comp20 are they specially value when grading the activities developed in the interactive seminar and laboratory classes.
The final qualification of the student will result from the assessment of their academic performance in the following sections:
1.- Knowledge of the subject
The level of subject knowledge will be evaluated by a written exam. This one will be done on the scheduled date for the final exam of the subject and it will consist of two parts:
- Thirty multiple test-type questions, with five response options of which only one is correct. Each question answered correctly adds 0.2 points. Each question answered incorrectly subtracts 0.1 points. The unanswered questions do not add nor subtract score. Therefore, the maximum note that can be obtain in this part of the exam is 6 points.
- Six questions to develop. In each question requires a minimum score of 20% of the maximum score. The highest mark that can be obtained in this part of the test is 6 points.
The global qualification of the exam will be the arithmetic mean of both parts (test and questions to develop), being necessary to reach a minimum of 1.8 points of the maximum score of 6 points in each part of the exam*.
It is necessary that the mark obtained in this exam exceeds 40% of the corresponding maximum to evaluate the rest of the sections.
The qualification obtained in this section will be the 90% of the final qualification in the subject.
2.-Activities developed in the interactive classes of laboratory
The student’ability to use their knowledge in specific real or fictitious situations will be evaluated.
The student (individually and/or in small groups) will carry out the activities related to the content of the lab classes scheduled by the professor, who will evaluate both the student’attitude in carrying out theis work and their performance. Attendance at the lab classes established in the educational program and the accomplishment of the activities programmed by the professorr are mandatory*.
After completing the lab classes and provided that there are fulfilled the requirements indicated in the previous paragraph, the student will take an exam based on the developed activities. A mark equal to or superior than 5 points out of a total of 10 will be necessary in order that it could consider to be the pass in practical classes*. If the student does not obtain the above mentioned qualification in the exam carried out with his group of practices, he will have two more opportunities to repeat it together with the final exam of the subject.
Students having a positive evaluation of the interactive laboratory classes in an academic course may maintain their qualification in the following five courses in case they do not pass the subject and must repeat it.
Nevertheless, bearing in mind that a new academic registration entitles to complete the whole teaching of the subject, repeating students who have pass the practical classes in previous courses and wish to perform them and be evaluated again may do so, notifying the professor before the Faculty organizes groups of students for laboratory classes.
The global qualification of practices will be obtained considering the note of the exam (70%) and the student’attitude in the tasks (30%).
The mark obtained in this section will be 7% of the final mark in the subject.
3.-Activities developed in the interactive seminar classes
These classes are carried out in the dates and times scheduled by the Faculty and will consist of the resolution by the students of activities previously established by the professor.
Professor will provide, in advance, the bibliographic material and the necessary information to ensure that students perform properly their work (individually or distributed in small groups).
The evaluation of the participation in these activities (resolution of problems and clinical cases, accomplishment and presentation of works, contributions to discussions, etc.), as well as attitude and achievement demonstrated throughout them, will account for 3% of the final qualification.
Students having a positive evaluation of the interactive seminar classes in an academic course may maintain their qualification in the two following courses in case they do not pass the subject and must should repeat it.
*If a student does not fulfill any of the requirements indicated previously (such as not being present at the obligatory classes or not reaching any of the required minimums), he will have a final qualification of fail in the subject, with a numerical mark that will be a function of the points accumulated in the different evaluated sections, but that will be a maximum of 4.9 points ott of a total of 10 (despite the fact that the simple application of the scale could give an arithmetical result higher than 5 in the same range).
Contact hours:
30 hours of large-group lectures
12 hours of small group interactive classes (seminars)
12 hours of laboratory classes
2 hours of very small group tutorials
4 hours of exams and review
In addition to the face-to-face hours it is estimated that is necessary an average of 60 hours of study are necessary to assimilate the theoretical contents, 20 hours of dedication to additional work for the seminars, 6 hours for the laboratory classes and 4 hours for testing and review.
In total the estimated work volume is of 150 hours.
With the purpose to obtain the maximum profit related to the effort done in the study of a new subject, the students who try to acquire an adequate training and to pass the subject of Pharmacology I must have basic knowledge of Anatomy, Cytology, Histology, Physiology and Physiopathology.
Considering that it is a subject with dense contents, it is recommended that students keep a continuous dedication along the year to study the treated topics following the study plan and avoid intense study on the dates previous to taking exams.
In the first class of the course, students will receive more detailed information on each of the aspects that appear in this teaching guide.
Mª De Los Reyes Laguna Francia
Coordinador/a- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881814996
- mdelosreyes.laguna [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Isabel Loza Garcia
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881815005
- mabel.loza [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
María Dolores Viña Castelao
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881815424
- mdolores.vina [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Araceli Tobio Ageitos
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- araceli.tobio.ageitos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Anton Leandro Martinez Rodriguez
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881815484
- antonleandro.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Raquel Lama Lopez
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881815491
- raquel.lama.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Juan de la Cierva Programme
Sara Troitiño Cora
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- s.troitino [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
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