EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
The teaching is part of the specific objectives of the study course aimed at training a professional figure able to know and understand:
i) the principles of pharmacokinetics (the path of the drug within the human organism , assessed in its qualitative / quantitative aspects) and of pharmacodynamics (drug / target interactions and analysis of the dose-response relationship);
ii) the definition of generic or equivalent medicine;
iii) adequate knowledge on the pharmacological basis of the therapy, for the main classes of drugs, through the integration of data related to the pharmacokinetics, to the pharmacological effects in terms of dose-response relationship, to the molecular mechanism of action, to the interaction of the single classes of drugs with the physio-pathological and molecular mechanisms of the diseases for which the drugs are proposed, as well as the methods of administration and the undesirable side effects;
iv) the principles governing personalized drug therapies.
EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS
At the end of the course the student, as far as he is competent, will be able to: i) know the pharmacological basis of the therapy; ii) to know the collateral and toxic effects of drugs and the potential interactions between them.
The course will help to provide the student with tools that will allow him to: i) enhance his ability to relate to inter-and multidisciplinary teams with other professional figures (psychologists, nurses, health assistants, etc.) who will be called to take care of the patient; ii) provide explanations to the patient and/or his family about the benefits and risks of drug therapy.
Finally, the student will develop skills in an independent study and will acquire the functional methodological tools for an autonomous update