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PA3004: BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY (2024-2025)

Last modified: 03 Sep 2024 08:16


Course Overview

  • Biochemical pharmacology and toxicology is a broad ranging course covering many fundamental aspects of pharmacology. It lays appropriate foundations upon which advanced Pharmacological understanding is developed.
  • Key aspects are:
    - critical concepts of pharmacological and toxicological relevance are covered in-depth at a molecular and biochemical level, with the ultimate significance to the human organism also studied
    - a modern and relevant practical thread (partly funded by the British Pharmacological Society) permits application of lecture materials, and enhances employability through development of relevant core practical skills
    - research-led special topics are also embedded where the materials studied are put in context through teaching driven by recent medical research discoveries

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Steven Tucker

Qualification Prerequisites

  • Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

  • PA3003 Biochemical Pharmacology (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course covers an introduction to bioanalytical techniques used in pharmacology and toxicology, ADE, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, carcinogenesis, mutagenesis and biochemical mechanisms of drug action. Latterly, the course will focus on special study areas relating to pharmacology and toxicology of the renal and respiratory systems.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

3 Online Course Studies

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualRememberTo gain knowledge of drug ADME
ProceduralAnalyseTo learn how to use the principles of pharmacokinetic modelling to present primary scientific data

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualApplyTo develop an understanding of how drugs are used to treat various conditions that affect the immune, renal and respiratory systems
ConceptualRememberTo develop knowledge of the immune, renal and respiratory systems

Practical Data Analysis

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
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ProceduralAnalyseTo learn how to use the principles of pharmacokinetic modelling to present primary scientific data

Report: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
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Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralAnalyseTo learn how to use the principles of pharmacokinetic modelling to present primary scientific data

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 70
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Continuous Assessments

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralAnalyseTo learn how to use the principles of pharmacokinetic modelling to present primary scientific data
ConceptualRememberTo develop knowledge of the immune, renal and respiratory systems
ConceptualApplyTo develop an understanding of how drugs are used to treat various conditions that affect the immune, renal and respiratory systems
FactualRememberTo gain knowledge of drug ADME
 

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