312195 (v.1) Pharmacology 522

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
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 4 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Pharmacological principles. Mechanisms of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and renal elimination. Half-life, clearance, drug concentration and effect. Relationship between rate of drug dosing and plasma concentrations. Bioavailability and bioequivalence. Renal disease and drug dosing - serum creatinine and creatinine clearance. Mechanisms of drug toxicity, adverse reactions, interactions. Meaning of information in drug monographs. Autonomic Nervous System pharmacology. Pharmacology of drugs acting on respiratory, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, central nervous, endocrine and musculoskeletal systems. Drugs for pain, allergy, mental illness. Antimicrobial, antifungal and antiviral agents.
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:	019907 Pharmacology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *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
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1			Y
2010	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