CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Ada POPOLO CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

0760300024
DIPARTIMENTO DI FARMACIA
EQF7
PHARMACY
2024/2025

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 4
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2023
SPRING SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
648LESSONS
Objectives
The course is aimed at acquiring knowledge and understanding of the clinical pharmacology of the most common drugs, their interactions, adverse effects and cost/benefit ratio.

At the end of the course the students will know pre-clinical and clinical drug development phases and activities; standards of good clinical practice; basic principles for rational pharmacological treatment in special populations. The course will also provide knowledge on adverse drug reactions, mechanisms underlying allergic and idiosyncratic reactions, genetic drug reactions and pharmacovigilance; pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions between drugs.

The student, on the basis of the acquired skills, will be able to analyse and address issues relating to the rationalisation of drug therapies and prescriptive adequacy in terms of efficacy, safety and adherence to therapy
Prerequisites
IT IS REQUIRED THE ACQUISITION OF THE FOLLOWING DISCIPLINES GENERAL PATHOLOGY.
Contents
DRUG CLASSIFICATION (2 HOURS); PRE-CLINICAL TESTING: IN VITRO AND IN VIVO STUDIES; EVALUATION OF ACUTE, SUB-ACUTE AND CHRONIC TOXICITY OF NEW DRUGS (2 HOURS). CLINICAL TRIAL, GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE (10 HOURS); PHARMACOVIGILANCE; ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF CLINICAL TRIALS. MARKETING AUTHORIZATION (16 HOURS). RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS IN PREGNANCY (2 HOURS), IN CHILDREN (4 HOURS), IN ELDERLY (2 HOURS), IN PATIENTS WITH LIVER DISEASE (2 HOURS) OR KIDNEY FAILURE (2 HOURS). THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING (6 HOURS).
Teaching Methods
LECTURE
Verification of learning
ORAL EXAMINATION
Texts
TRATTATO DI FARMACOLOGIA, IDELSON-GNOCCHI. SECONDA EDIZIONE
LE BASI FARMACOLOGICHE DELLA TERAPIA, ZANICHELLI, 13 ED.
FARMACOLOGIA GENERALE E CLINICA, KATZUNG, PICCIN VI ED.
FARMACOLOGIA CLINICA. FUCCELLA L M, PERRUCA E, SIRTORI C. UTET
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