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Medical
Dental
Pharmacy
Life Sciences
GEModules
Student Handbook
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| GEK2501 Understanding your
medications (GEM 4MC) |
| Prerequisites |
Open only to 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students. |
| Preclusions |
1st year students and those in medicine,
dentistry and science that have taken any pharmacology module. |
| Workload |
23 lecture hours + IVLE hours |
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How medications/drugs work to alleviate symptoms
and heal illnesses continue to fascinate the population at
large.
This module will introduce students in the humanities to the
general principles of drug actions that underpin their therapeutic
applications. The first step to Understanding Your Medication
begins with the understanding the normal functions of the
human body (physiology) follow by an introduction to the science
of drug action (pharmacology). Pharmacology consists of 2
major areas: pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. In dealing
with the therapeutic applications of drug actions, examples
of commonly used drugs (over-the-counter and prescription)
for specific disease states will be discussed, and their possible
side-effects highlighted.
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