Course Overview
If your clinical research setting includes testing new drugs on humans, this course will help you to understand the basics of drug actions and their relationship to human physiology. You will find that the assignments combine aspects of study design with drug actions making this course relevant to CRPs. The learning modules include case studies incorporating practical, patient oriented examples in the context of a clinical research setting. You will learn to develop monitoring plans, define specific clinical outcomes with the use of drugs in seven different disease states.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Explain principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics related to specific drug categories.
- Use a drug classification system as an information source for selected drugs.
- Relate specific drug action(s) to human physiology and/or pathophysiology to predict therapeutic and adverse drug effects.
- Explain required assessment and monitoring of subjects for therapeutic, side, adverse and toxic drug effects, and drug-drug or drug-lab interactions.
- Document written and verbal communication with subjects, staff and principal investigators involved in clinical drug trials.
- Educate subjects and staff regarding clinical drug trials.
- Discuss a variety of legal and ethical issues related to pharmacology.
- Apply knowledge of regulations regarding approved and investigational drugs.
- Apply pharmacological knowledge to assist the principle investigator in determining idiosyncrasies, causality, and expected or unexpected results, classifying adverse effects and implementing interventions.
- Apply selected pharmacological concepts and principles to subject case scenarios.
- Demonstrate proficiency in online learning skills including accessing course materials and resources, communicating via email and discussion groups.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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