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Fundamentals in Pharmacology, PHPY N5021

Course Schedule

DATE

CONTENT MODULE

ASSIGNMENT


Week One
9/2/08

Group Introductions

Organization and duties of the FDA. History of CDER

How Drugs Act on Living Organisms

The Drug Development Process

1.  Read: Levine Chp 2-3, Chp 16

2.  Review:  FDA Website
http://www.fda.gov/
http://www.fda.gov/cder/about/history/default.htm

3.  Review:  Handout for Week One

4.  Post: to the instructors introduction in your assigned task group by 9/8, 9AM; use the REPLY button

Week Two
9/9/08
Absorption and Distribution

l.  Read: Levine Chp 4-6

2. Review:  Handout for Week Two

3.  Post:  Work in your assigned task group to complete this week’s activity.  When your group has answered the question, post the final answer as a reply in the general posting area for your group.  Due by 9/15/ 9AM


Week Three
9/16/08
Drug Metabolism and Excretion

1.  Read:  Levine Chps 7-8

2.  Review:  Handouts for Week Three

3.  Post:  Work in your assigned task group to complete this week’s activity.  When your group has answered the question, post the final answer as a reply in the general posting area for your group.  Due on 9/22 by 9AM

Week Four
9/23/08
Dose-Response Relationships

1.  Read: Levine: Chp 9

2.  Review:  Handouts for Week Four

3.  No Posting this week


Week Five
9/30/08
No Class

 


Week Six
10/7/08

Time-Response Relationships I

1.  Read:  Levine Chp 10

2.  Review:  Handouts for Week Five

3.  Post:  Week Five Discussion Activities.  Work in your assigned task group to complete this week’s activity.  When your group has answered the question, post the final answer as a reply in the general posting area for your group. Due 10/13 by 9AM


Week Seven
10/14/08

Time-Response Relationships II

Continued from last week

1.  No posting this week

Week Eight
10/21/08

Factors Modifying Drug Effects in the Individual and Variability of Response; ADRS

Drug-Food Interactions
Drug-Exercise Interactions

Review for Exam

1.  Read:  Levine Chp 11

2.  Review:  Handouts for Week Six

3.  Review:  http://sexandgendercourse.od.nih.gov/  http://www.phrma.org/safety/
http://www.druginteractioncenter.org
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/index.html
4.  No Posting this week


Week Nine
10/28/08
IN-CLASS MIDTERM

1. complete Midterm Course Evaluation by 11/3

2.  Peer Review due

3.  Submit Topics for paper via course email, due by 11/3 9AM

 


Week Ten
11/4/08

How Drugs alter Physiologic Function-Drugs affecting the Autonomic Nervous System

Drug-Food Interactions
Drug-Exercise Interactions

 

1.  Read:  Levine Chp 14

2.  Review:  Handouts for Week Ten

3.  Post: Week Eight Discussion Activities.  Work in your assigned task group to complete this week’s activity.  When your group has answered the question, post the final answer as a reply in the general posting area for your group.  Due by 11/10, 9AM 

Week Eleven
11/11/08

Drug toxicity

Hany Rofael Mikhael, M.D., Ph.D

Read:

2.  Review:  Handouts for Week Nine

3.  Post: Week Nine Discussion Activities.  Work in your assigned task group to complete this week’s activity.  When your group has answered the question, post the final answer as a reply in the general posting area for your group.  Due by 11/17



Week Twelve
11/18/08

Clinical Toxicology

Monitoring and Interpretation of serum Drug Concentrations

Hany Rofael Mikhael, M.D., Ph.D

1 Read

2.  Review:  Handouts for Week Ten

3.  Post: Week Ten Discussion Activities.  Work in your assigned task group to complete this week’s activity.  When your group has answered the question, post the final answer as a reply in the general posting area for your group.  Due by 11/24

Week Thirteen
11/25/08

Pharmacologic Aspects of Drug Abuse
Hany Rofael Mikhael, M.D., Ph.D

Toxicology Case

Discussions

1. Read:

  • Levine Chp 15

2Review:  Handouts for Week Eleven

3.  Reviewhttp://www.ncadd.org/facts/index.html
Medical/Scientific Information
http://www.casacolumbia.org/
Under “resources” Read “Neurobiology Added to Social, Moral Debate on Teen Drinking”
http://www.nida.nih.gov
National Institute on Drug Abuse-great site for specifics on abused drugs.

4.  Post: Week Twelve Discussion Activities.  Work in your assigned task group to complete this week’s activity.  When your group has answered the question, post the final answer as a reply in the general posting area for your group.  Due by 12/1 by 9AM

 


Week Fourteen
12/2/08
Paper Presentations

1. Final Paper Due: .Submit to the instructor through the course email

2 . Complete Final Course Evaluation by 12/20 9AM


Week Fifteen
12/9/08
Paper Presentations

1.  Peer Review forms due 12/15

2.  Complete final course evaluation 12/15

Notes of Interest
 



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