46248 - General Pharmacology

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes will be: a) basic knowledge about drug metabolism (administration, clearance, therapeutics, adverse effects)

Course contents

GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY. General pharmacokinetics: movement of drugs across cell membranes; routes of administration and absorption; bioavailability; distribution of drugs in the body; volume of distribution, binding to plasma proteins; drug metabolism; excretion; time-course of drug plasmatic contents (after single or repeated administration). General pharmacodynamics: targets and mechanisms of drug action; dose-response curve; agonists, partial agonists, antagonists; individual variations (effects of age, pathological states, drug interactions, tolerance, placebo effects). General toxicity: side-effects, overdose, idiosyncratic and allergic reactions; teratogenesis and foetal toxicity; carcinogenesis; drug dependency. Clinical evaluation.

Readings/Bibliography

Michelle A. Clark, Richard Finkel, Jose A. Rey, Karen Whalen “Pharmacology” Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

Teaching methods

Plenary lecture

Assessment methods

The test will be administered through an IT platform and will be held in a university computer room.

Student learning will be checked at the end of the course through a written test. The overall knowledge will be assessed using a written exam structured as multiple-choice questions questions aimed at verifying the student's knowledge of the scheduled topics of all the modules belonging to the Integrated Course. The exam will be held in presence using personal computers.

The exam is composed by 33 questions. Each valid answer grants 1 point. The student needs to reach 18 points to pass the exam. The number of correct answers corresponds to the final mark, if the number is greater or equal to 31 the mark will be 30 cum laude.

Students are required to know their Institutional credentials to sustain the exam.

 There are no penalties for wrong or undecided answers.

It is possible at any time to go back and edit an answer. The test must be completed within 30 minutes of starting.

At the end of the test it is possible to immediately view the result (number of correct answers).


IMPORTANT NOTE: Only for students of the Degree Course in Neurophysiopathology


Verification of learning will be carried out with the same procedures described for nursing students on dates agreed with the course members and open only to those enrolled in the Degree Course in Neurophysiopathology Techniques

The test will not be administered on IT platform.

Teaching tools

Power Point presentation (the material could be downloaded at amsacta.unibo.it )

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Rimondini Giorgini