Foundations VI (PHA 0233)
(01/04/2021-04/30/2021)
Course Memo
This course introduces basic concepts and pathophysiology of common diseases of the Respiratory and Endocrine System, as well as the pharmacology and medicinal chemistry as applied to medications that act on those systems. Included are basic principles of drug action and the chemical properties, primary pharmacological actions, mechanisms of drug action, routes of administration, disposition, and elimination, contraindications, adverse and unwanted reactions, clinically significant drug interactions, and drug-disease interactions of drugs used to treat disorders of the Endocrine System.