Department of Pharmacology

Vision

To create competent professionals equipped for practice of evidence based medicine.

Mission

To inculcate a rational & scientific basis of therapeutics.

Goal

To ensure that the student has knowledge about the drugs and their practical application in clinical practice.

Objectives

To understand the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of essential and commonly used drugs.
List the indications, contraindications, interactions and adverse reactions of commonly used drugs.
Indicate the use of appropriate drug in a particular disease with consideration to its cost, efficacy and safety for Individual needs and Mass therapy under national health programmes.
Indicate causations in prescription of drugs in special medical situations such as pregnancy, lactation, infancy and old age.
Integrate the concept of rational drug therapy in clinical pharmacology and understand the principles underlying the concept of essential drugs.
Evaluate the ethics and modalities involved in the development and introduction of new drugs.

Vision

To create competent professionals equipped in the basis of therapeutics, drug development, cutting edge research and innovative teaching.

Mission

To train the medical graduate to be an effective leader of a health team engaged in education, health care, research or industry.

Goals

To train a medical graduate to be a Pharmacologist who is well versed with the basic principles of Pharmacology and is up to date with the recent advances.
To arouse a spirit of scientific reasoning and inquiry.
To provide orientation to the principles of research methodology and epidemiology.
Acquisition of skills related to teaching.

Objectives

To acquire knowledge of basic and applied pharmacology.
To understand the basis of drug regulations, clinical research and pharmacotherapeutics.
Demonstrate competence in basic concepts of research methodology and epidemiology.
Design and implement research projects including basic invivo , invitro experiments on small animals and human studies in concurrence with relevant ethical guidelines.
Perform drug assays, therapeutic drug monitoring and manage adverse drug reaction reporting and causality assessment.
Develop skills in using educational methods and techniques as applicable to the teaching of medical/nursing students and paramedical health workers.
Develop medical writing skills and be able to critically analyze relevant published research literature.
Demonstrate ability to build, lead and work in a team maintaining good interpersonal relationships with effective communication skills.