Department of Pharmacology
Training students in evidence-based medicine, rational drug therapy, and the research that keeps prescribing safe.
Pharmacology teaches the science behind every prescription — how drugs work, how to choose between them, and how new therapies are developed and tested responsibly. Uniquely, the department runs distinct Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs, each with its own vision, mission and goals.
Program Vision, Mission & Objectives
Pharmacology's Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs are structured as two distinct tracks — select a tab to explore each.
Vision
To create competent professionals equipped for the practice of evidence-based medicine.
Mission
To inculcate a rational and scientific basis of therapeutics.
Goal
To ensure that the student has knowledge about drugs and their practical application in clinical practice.
Objectives
- 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 appropriate drug for a given disease, weighing cost, efficacy and safety for individual and mass therapy under national health programmes.
- Recognize cautions in prescribing during pregnancy, lactation, infancy and old age.
- Integrate rational drug therapy into clinical pharmacology, understanding the concept of essential drugs.
- Evaluate the ethics and modalities involved in developing and introducing 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
- Train a medical graduate as a Pharmacologist well versed in the basic principles of Pharmacology and up to date with recent advances.
- Arouse a spirit of scientific reasoning and inquiry.
- Provide orientation to the principles of research methodology and epidemiology.
- Build skills related to teaching.
Objectives
- Acquire knowledge of basic and applied pharmacology, including drug regulation, clinical research and pharmacotherapeutics.
- Demonstrate competence in research methodology and epidemiology.
- Design and implement research projects — in vivo and in vitro experiments on small animals, and human studies — under relevant ethical guidelines.
- Perform drug assays, therapeutic drug monitoring, and manage adverse-drug-reaction reporting and causality assessment.
- Develop teaching skills applicable to medical, nursing and paramedical students.
- Develop medical writing skills and critically analyze published research literature.
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Pharmacology is one of five departments bridging basic science and the ward.
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