MD PHARMACOLOGY

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

At the end of the program, graduates will be able to...

PO1: Apply the pharmacological principles to explain the mechanism of action of drugs used in therapeutics 

PO2: Integrate the basic knowledge of pharmacology in dealing with patient care, design and operationalize the concept of essential medicine in various  levels of health care system

PO3: Apply the basic principles of pharmacology in dealing with special patient populations like paediatric, geriatric, pregnancy,  lactation,  poisoning , patients with specific organ dysfunction and prescribe appropriate drug dosage and formulation in these circumstances

PO4: Apply principles of good clinical practice and good laboratory practice guidelines in clinical and basic research and effectively  lead a team of experts in conducting clinical & basic research 

PO5: Apply the principles of basic research methodology in designing research protocols, conduct of research appropriately and in ethically  acceptable manner, evaluate, analyse and monitor preclinical  and clinical data  in drug discovery and development.

PO6: Practice the principles of teaching-learning technology in interactive classroom and small group teaching effectively.

PO7: Effectively communicate with the patients about the  safe and effective use of drugs with emphasis on patient education on adherence to medication.

PO8: Demonstrate skills for self-directed lifelong learning in teaching, research and patient care by keeping abreast with the recent advances in the respective fields.

PO9: Recognize the adverse effect seen during routine clinical care, document the same in appropriate manner as per the guidelines, assess the causal  relationship with the drug responsible for  and report to the  concerned authority and communicate the information with the stakeholders 

PO10: Apply the principles of pharmacoeconomics in clinical research and patient care and operationalize with the stakeholders.

PO11: Apply the principles of pharmacogenetics, pharmacoepidemiology, chronopharmacology, ethnopharmacology, ecopharmacology, toxicology in teaching and research