ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
Areas: Pharmacology
Center Faculty of Pharmacy
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
- To help students to understand and apply the knowledge about pharmacological actions and mechanism of action of the drugs.
- To transmit essential information about therapeutic applications and adverse reactions of drugs in order to understand how prescriptions must be directed to obtain the maximum beneficial effects and the minimum adverse reactions.
Pharmacology as a science. Pharmacokinetics. Absorption of drugs. Distribution of drugs. Biotransformation of drugs. Excretion of drugs. Place of drugs action. Quantitative analysis of the pharmacological effect. Adverse reactions of drugs. Adverse reactions of special consideration. Variations in drugs response. Variations in the response due to the therapy with several drugs. Variations in drugs response due to individual differences. Development of new drugs Neurotransmission in the autonomous and peripheral nervous system. Catecholaminergic transmission. Pharmacological modulation of noradrenergic transmission and adrenergic receptors. Cholinergic transmission. Pharmacological modulation of muscarinic receptors. Pharmacological modulation of nicotinic receptors. Local anaesthetics. Paracrine communication. Biogenic amines: histamine and 5-hydroxytriptamine. Peptide mediators. Lipid mediators. Other local mediators.
Basic bibliography
- Rang y Dale. Farmacología. Rang HP, Ritter JM, Flower RJ, Henderson G. 8ª ed. Elsevier; 2020.
- Goodman & Gilman. Las bases farmacológicas de la Terapéutica. 12 Ed. Brunton L, Chabner B, Knollman B. ed. McGraw-Hill; 2019.
- Flórez J. Farmacología Humana. 6ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier-Masson; 2014.
Bibliografía complementaria
- Lüllmann H, Mohr K, Hein L. Farmacología. Texto y Atlas. 6ª ed. Panamericana; 2010.
- Netter: Farmacología Ilustrada. 1ª ed. Autores: Raffa R, Beyzarov EP, Rawls SM. Barcelona. Elsevier-Masson; 2008.
General skills
- To promote the rational use of medicines and health products, and acquire basic knowledge in clinical management, health economics and efficient use of health resources.
- To identify, evaluate and assess the problems related to drugs and medicines, as well as participate in the activities of pharmacovigilance.
- To participate in the activities of health promotion and disease prevention, at individual, family and community levels, with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of health-disease process.
- To develop communication skills and information, whether oral or written in order to deal with patients and users of their work center.
Specific skills
- MF01 Using drugs safely taking into account their physical and chemical properties and including any risks associated with their use.
- MF04 To assess the effects of substances with pharmacological activity.
- MF05 To know and understand the techniques used in the design and evaluation of preclinical and clinical trials.
- MF07 Promoting the rational use of medicines and health products.
- MF08 To acquire the skills to be able to provide advice on drug therapy
- MF12 To know and understand the structure and function of human body and the general mechanisms of disease, as well as molecular, structural and functional alterations, syndromic expression and therapeutic tools for restoring health
- TF03 To understand the processes of liberation, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs, and factors that determine the absorption and disposition on the basis of their routes of administration
Generic skills
- CS01 To develop the ability to apply knowledge in practice
- CS03 To develop the ability to learn
In magisterial classes will use the same scheme than in magisterial lectures.
Seminars will be based in students’ participation, individually or in reduced groups, making activities that suppose a complement of theoretical classes, such as discussion of pharmacological treatments, solving of problems constituting a direct application of the most important pharmacological concepts, discussion of clinical cases, etc.
Interactive lab classes are structured in 4 sessions, in which reduced groups of students, will use computer programmes (computer by student) of simulation of pharmacological experiments in which they can find a valuable support for the comprehension of basic knowledge both of general pharmacology and aspects related to different therapeutic groups.
Small group tutoring: They represent for each student 2 hours per semester and subject. They will be used for the doubts resolution.
The students will have a version of the subject from the virtual USC service.
For the training activities in the virtual environment, the “Campus Virtual” and other available institutional tools such as MS Teams / MS Forms and / or others that can be enabled for this purpose will be used.
All methods of evaluation listed below (sections 1-3) will be used to determine the level achieved by the students in the general and transversal competences included in this program. The specific skills referred as MF01, MF05, MF07, MF12 and TF03 will be evaluated primarily in the written exam; the specific competences MF04, MF05 (partially) and MF08 will be assessed essentially when qualifying the activities developed in the interactive laboratory classes.
The final qualification of the student will result from the valuation of their academic performance in the following sections:
1.- Knowledge of the subject
The level of subject knowledge will be assessed by a written exam. This one will be done on the scheduled date for the final exam of the course and will consist of two parts:
- Thirty test-type questions, with five options of response of which only one is correct. Each question answered correctly added 0.2 points. Each question answered incorrectly subtract 0.1 points. The unanswered questions do not add nor subtract score. The maximum note that it is possible to obtain in this part of the examination is, therefore, 6 points.
- Six questions to develop. In each question a minimum score of 20% of the maximum score for the question is demanded. The highest note that can be obtained in this part of the test is 6 points.
The global qualification of the examination will be the arithmetical average of both parts (test and questions to develop), being necessary to reach in each part of the examination a minimum of 1,8 points of the maximum score of 6 points*.
It is necessary that the grade obtained in this exam exceed 45% of the corresponding maximum to assess the rest of the sections.
The qualification obtained in this section will be the 90 % of the final qualification in the subject.
2.-Activities developed in the interactive classes of laboratory
The ability of the student to apply their knowledge in specific real or fictitious situations will be evaluated.
The student (individually and/or in small groups) will carry out the activities related to the content of the practice scheduled by the teacher, who will evaluate both the attitude of the student in carrying out his work as the performance of the same one. The assistance to the practical classes established in the educational programming and the accomplishment of the activities programmed by the teacher are obligatory*.
Once completed the period of accomplishment of the practices and providing that there are fulfilled the requirements indicated in the previous paragraph, the student will realize an examination based on the developed activities. A qualification equal or superior to 5 points on a whole of 10 will be necessary in order that it could consider to be the pass in practical classes*. If the student does not obtain the above mentioned qualification on the exam realized with his group of practices, he will have two more opportunities to repeat it together the final exam of the subject.
Students having a positive evaluation of the interactive laboratory classes in an academic course may maintain their qualification in the five following courses in case they do not pass the subject and should repeat it.
Nevertheless, bearing in mind that a new academic registration entitles to complete the whole teaching of the subject, repeater students who have pass the practical classes in previous courses and wish to perform them and be evaluated again may do so, communicating it to Professor before the Faculty organize groups of students for laboratory classes.
The global qualification of practices will be obtained considering the note of the examination (70%) and the attitude of the student in the tasks (30%). The students will deliver the questionnaires with the activities carried out during the development of the interactive lab.
The qualification obtained in this section will be 7 % of the final qualification in the subject.
3.-Activities developed in the interactive classes of seminar
These classes are carried out in the dates and times scheduled by the Faculty and will consist of the resolution by the students of activities previously established by the teacher.
He will provide, in advance, the bibliographic material and the information necessary to ensure that students perform properly their work (individually or distributed in small groups).
The evaluation of the participation in these activities (resolution of problems and clinical cases, accomplishment and exhibition of works, contributions in the debates, etc.), as well as attitude and achievement demonstrated throughout them, will be 3% of the final qualification.
Students having a positive evaluation of the interactive seminar classes in an academic course may maintain their qualification in the two following courses in case they do not pass the subject and should repeat it.
*In the event that a student does not fulfill any of the requirements indicated previously (such as not being present at the obligatory classes or not reaching any of the required minimums) a final qualification of fail will have in the subject, with a numerical note that will be a function of the points accumulated in the different evaluated sections, but that will be at the maximum 4,9 points on a total 10 (despite the fact that the simple application of the scale could give an arithmetical result greater than 5 in the same range).
Contact hours:
30 hours of large-group lectures
12 hours of small group interactive classes (seminars)
12 hours of practical classes
2 hours of very small group tutorials
4 hours of exams and revision
Apart from the contact hours it is estimated that is necessary an average of 60 hours of study to assimilate the theory contents, 20 hours of dedication to additional work for the seminars, 6 hours for the practical classes and 4 hours for testing and revision.
In total the estimated work volume is of 150 hours.
With the purpose of obtaining the maximum profit of the effort done at studying a new subject, the students who try to acquire an adequate training and to pass the subject of Pharmacology I it is convenient that they have basic knowledge of Anatomy, Cytology, Histology, Physiology and Physiopathology.
Considering that it is an subject of dense contents, it is recommendable that students keep along the year a continuous dedication to study the treated topics following the syllabus and they should avoid intense study in the dates previous to the fulfilment of exams.
In the first class of the year students will receive more detailed information in each of the aspects that appear in this teaching guide.
Contingency Plan:
A) Magisterial classes
Scenario 1: Face to face in the classroom
Scenario 2: Will be carried out online, in whole or in part, using synchronous mechanisms, according to the schedule and virtual teaching defined by the center.
Scenario 3: Will be carried out online using synchronous and asynchronous mechanims
B) Interactive seminars classes
Scenario 1: Face to face in the classroom
Scenario 2: Will be carried out online, in whole or in part, using synchronous mechanisms, according to the schedule and virtual teaching defined by the center.
Scenario 3: Will be carried out online using synchronous and asynchronous mechanims
C) Small group tutoring
Scenario 1: Face to face in the classroom
Scenario 2: Will be carried out online, in whole or in part, using synchronous mechanisms, according to the schedule and virtual teaching defined by the center.
Scenario 3: Will be carried out online using synchronous and asynchronous mechanims
D) Interactive lab clases
Scenario 1: 100% Face to face in the laboratoty. 20 students per group.
Scenario 2: 50% Face to face in the laboratory using synchronous mechanisms, 50% will be carried out online using asynchronous mechanisms. 10 students per group.
Scenario 3: 100% online using synchronous and asynchronous mechanims. 20 students per group.
Mª De Los Reyes Laguna Francia
Coordinador/a- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881814996
- mdelosreyes.laguna [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Isabel Loza Garcia
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881815005
- mabel.loza [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
María Dolores Viña Castelao
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881815424
- mdolores.vina [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Manuel Campos Toimil
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- Phone
- 881815006
- manuel.campos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Araceli Tobio Ageitos
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- araceli.tobio.ageitos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
María González Rodríguez
- Department
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- Area
- Pharmacology
- maria.gonzalez.rodriguez0 [at] rai.usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo A /CLE_01 | Spanish | 5035 Classroom 2.1 Faculty of Politics |
| 16:30-17:30 | Grupo B/CLE_02 | Spanish | 5035 Classroom 2.1 Faculty of Politics |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo A /CLE_01 | Spanish | 5035 Classroom 2.1 Faculty of Politics |
| 16:30-17:30 | Grupo B/CLE_02 | Spanish | 5035 Classroom 2.1 Faculty of Politics |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo A /CLE_01 | Spanish | 5035 Classroom 2.1 Faculty of Politics |
| 16:30-17:30 | Grupo B/CLE_02 | Spanish | 5035 Classroom 2.1 Faculty of Politics |