IPH 483: Integrated pharmacotherapy IV: Endocrine and women'92s health

Credits 3
Integrated pharmacotherapy courses aims to build the knowledge of the students about how to manage patients with different pathological conditions. It will start by delivering lectures in pathophysiology about a certain disease that belongs to the system covered in the course, followed by pharmacology lectures that cover pharmacological actions of drugs designed to treat such condition and the physiological responses of the body to these drugs. Current practice guidelines for the management for such diseases will follow along with a small exercise that introduces a one simple case to discuss the therapeutics options suitable. This course in particular will teach the student pathophysiology of common endocrine disorders and topics related to female and male reproduction. Common dermatological conditions will be discussed briefly at the end of the course. Application of the knowledge acquired in this course will be applied in the '93case based seminar'94 course that run in parallel to it in 7 weeks period.
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