Clinical Pharmacology II

Catalog description

This class is an overview of clinical aspects of psychopharmacology. It will review some basic pharmacologic principles, it will survey the current consensus on the nature of the most common diseases and their treatments, and finally it will discuss modern pharmacology role in society. At the end of the course, you should have a good idea of the role of drugs in medical treatment along with awareness of their relative benefits and risks. You will also learn basic principles of how pharmacology fits into the larger context of clinical biology. Along the way we will discuss the grand scheme of things, partly because its interesting but mostly because it will provide a framework for dealing with new ideas and developments as they occur in your career.