Teaching undergraduate students

The department teaches pharmacology to undergraduate medical students by conducting the following courses:  MPHL-231 (4 credit hours), MPHL-232 (4 credit hours).  The teaching of these two courses entails the use of lectures, tutorials and practical sessions every week for a full year (2nd for MPHL-231) and during third year of College for MPHL-232. As for C-Med 301 (1 credit hour), course, its method of instruction differs from the other courses.  It is taught to the students during their clinical rotations.  It concentrates on teaching the students methods of scientific writing, literature reviewing and on how students may present orally their selected presentations.  Topics include the clinical pharmacology and therapeutics of the drugs used in the treatment of the most prevalent diseases.

The department, also, teaches 196 Katab (1 credit hour), which is scientific terminology in Arabic, in collaboration with the Dept. of family and Community Medicine.

Table 1 gives an example of the number of students (male and female) who were registered in pharmacology courses for the academic year 1424/1425H.

Table 1.

Table2. 

This table gives an example of the number of students and courses taught by staff members of our department at College of  Pharmacy for the academic year 1423/1424H.

Table3.

This table gives the number of students who registered for 343 optics course at Applied Science College for the academic year 1424/1425H.  This course is taught by a staff member of our department.

 

Post-graduate Teaching:

The department contributes actively to to teaching at the post-graduate levels for memberships and Master degrees in Colleges of medicine and college of Pharmacy as follows:

·        Teaching of Clinical Pharmacology for doctors who register in the Neurology Fellowship at the College of Medicine.

·        Teaching of clinical pharmacology, in collaboration with others, to doctors, enrolling in the dermatology membership in King Khalid University Hospital.

·        Contribution to the teaching of Clinical Pharmacology to doctors who register in the Ophthalmology Fellowship at King Abdulaziz University Hospital.
Contribution to the teaching of Clinical Pharmacology to doctors who register for the Psychiatry Fellowship at King Khalid University Hospital.

·        Teaching Clinical Pharmacology and Advanced Pharmacology courses to post-graduate students who register for M.Sc. degree in pharmacology and Toxicology at College

 

Outlines

A.      Pharmacology -231

This course is taught to second year medical students. The course includes the study of the general principles of pharmacology, drugs acting on the autonomic nervous system, cardiovascular system, and endocrine system.

B.       Pharmacology -232

This course is taught to third year medical students. The course includes the study of chemotherapeutic agents and drugs acting on the central nervous system, immune system, respiratory and gastrointestinal system.

C.      MED 301

This course is taught to third year students. The course is of clinical nature and aids students to update their knowledge. The course also promotes the students skills in scientific writing and research methodology.

D.  Practical courses:

Practical topics of MPHL -231

1.       Effect of drugs on Rabbit's eye.

2.       Effect of drugs on cat blood pressure.

3.       Effect of drugs on guinea pig ileum.

4.       Effect of drugs on isolated rabbit's heart.

Practical topics of MPHL -232

1.       Anti – inflammatory drugs.

2.       Anticonvulsant drugs.

3.       Sleeping time.

4.       Local anesthetics

 

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