Pharmacology and Disease Processes for Medical Office Occupations

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to the principles of pharmacology and the pharmacologic action of common drugs administered in disease processes affecting the individual body organs and systems. Drugs are studied from a body systems and disease process approach. Students learn within each system, which categories of drugs are used in the treatment of disease. Principal disease processes are studied in relation to their etiology, pertinent diagnostic procedures, signs and symptoms, pathological changes, prognosis and preferred treatment modalities.