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Identical coursesPharmaceutical Medicine (B-KUL-E03N9A)
Cannot be taken as part of an examination contract
de Hoon Jan (coordinator) | Allegaert Karel | Spriet Isabel | de Hoon Jan Aims
Pharmaceutical medicine can be defined as the discipline that is concerned with the medical aspects of discovery, research, development, evaluation, registration, monitoring, and marketing of medicines (pharmaceuticals, biologicals) in the interests of patients.
Pharmaceutical Medicine is a young scientific field involving a wide range of disciplines and people with different educational backgrounds.
At the end of this course the student will have insight into the following topics:
- Discovery and development of new medicines (from molecule to medicine)
- Clinical drug development: different phases of drug development (pre-clinical and clinical)
- Types of clinical and scientific studies with regards to drugs
- Regulatory issues regarding the development of new drugs: (inter)national guidelines and laws regarding clinical trials as well as registration and marketing of new drugs
- Drugs and society: specific issues regarding regulations of drugs, drug distribution, drug information, drug treatment and financing of drug treatment in Belgium
- Capita selecta: pharmacology in high risk groups, biologicals and vaccines
Previous knowledge
Basic concepts of physiology, biostatistics, toxicology and pharmacology.
Order of Enrolment
Mixed prerequisite:
You may only take this course if you comply with the prerequisites. Prerequisites can be strict or flexible, or can imply simultaneity. A degree level can be also be a prerequisite.
Explanation:
STRICT: You may only take this course if you have passed or applied tolerance for the courses for which this condition is set.
FLEXIBLE: You may only take this course if you have previously taken the courses for which this condition is set.
SIMULTANEOUS: You may only take this course if you also take the courses for which this condition is set (or have taken them previously).
DEGREE: You may only take this course if you have obtained this degree level.
SIMULTANEOUS(E03N6A) OR SIMULTANEOUS(E07U0A)
The codes of the course units mentioned above correspond to the following course descriptions:
E03N6A : Farmacologie en farmacokinetiek
E07U0A : Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics
This course unit is a prerequisite for taking the following course units:
E0G12A : Klinische studies
Is included in these courses of study
Activities
5 ects. Pharmaceutical Medicine (B-KUL-E03N9a)
Content
Pharmaceutical medicine can be defined as the discipline that is concerned with the medical aspects of discovery, research, development, evaluation, registration, monitoring, and marketing of medicines (pharmaceuticals, biologicals) in the interests of patients.
Pharmaceutical Medicine is a young scientific field involving a wide range of disciplines and people with different educational backgrounds.
At the end of this course the student will have insight into the following topics:
- Discovery and development of new medicines (from molecule to medicine)
- Clinical drug development: different phases of drug development (pre-clinical and clinical)
- Types of clinical and scientific studies with regards to drugs
- Regulatory issues regarding the development of new drugs: (inter)national guidelines and laws regarding clinical trials as well as registration and marketing of new drugs
- Drugs and society: specific issues regarding regulations of drugs, drug distribution, drug information, drug treatment and financing of drug treatment in Belgium
- Capita selecta: pharmacology in high risk groups, biologicals and vaccines
Course material
The course material consists of: course notes, important guidelines and laws are provided as pdf, slides from the lectures are available as well as many references to important articles.
Format: more information
Interaction during the courses: taking notes, creative thinking and discussions, asking questions
Evaluation
Evaluation: Pharmaceutical Medicine (B-KUL-E23N9a)
Explanation
The exam is an exclusively written exam.
The questions will be a combination of open questions, questions which require insight, statements to be analysed and multiple choice questions (with correction for guessing).