Review of Pharmacology

This is an independent study course in which students are expected to identify a topic in pharmacology and therapeutics, retrieve pertinent basic and clinical data from the scientific literature, and prepare a written report in which those data are discussed in relation to the presentation of a disease, future directions for disease management and overcoming the limitations of existing (accepted) pharmacotherapy. The topic of the report should be a novel aspect of pharmacotherapy including, but not limited to, a discrepancy they have encountered in the clinical use of a drug/drug class, a novel therapy (ies) for a disease for which current drugs might not fully prevent disease progression or an emerging field of pharmacotherapy. Pharmacology 620 is a prerequisite. Inquiries concerning the course can be made with the department chair, director of the second-year medical pharmacology course or any other pharmacology faculty. Arrangements for taking the course must be made in advance

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