Learning objectives
1. Knowledge and understanding. Students will have to acquire the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the main drugs commonly used in developmental age. In particular, the concepts of general pharmacology, the clinical implications of pharmacokinetics, the characteristics of drug-receptor interaction, the main classes of receptors, the classes of drugs that modulate skeletal muscle contraction, antiepileptic drugs, drugs for pain treatment, chemotherapy antibiotics.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Students will have to place the knowledge acquired in the physio-functional context of the human organism as a whole, to better understand the responses to the application of drugs of neuro- and psychomotor interest. This knowledge will be aimed at understanding the signs and/or symptoms that develop following the administration/taking of drugs and the evaluation of the effects they produce.
3. Independent judgment. The student will have to acquire the knowledge necessary in the future to plan study protocols for the characterization of new therapeutic protocols, once he enters the world of work as a graduate.
4. Communication skills. Students will have to acquire the terminological knowledge necessary to objectively describe the actions of drugs and to quantify their effects at the level of organs and systems in analytical terms, also for the purposes of a correct comparison between molecules with similar biological activities.
5. Learning ability. Students must be able to use what they have acquired to understand and interpret literature data relating to drugs, especially to finalize their use for research purposes in the clinical-pharmacological field.