Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

2998 (v.4) Chemotherapy 224


Area:

School of Pharmacy

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

Selective toxicity - scope of antimicrobial chemotherapy. Classifications of antibiotics. Principles of treatment - clinical diagnosis, bacteriological diagnosis and reasons for treatment failure. The antimicrobial action, absorption, distribution, elimination, untoward effects and their place in chemotherapy of the following drug groups - sulphonamides and trimethoprim, betalactams, inhibitors of protein synthesis, macrolides and tetracyclines.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

060117 Internal Medicine

Funding Cluster:

09 - Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Science

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2006 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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