Medical Pharmacology 2 for Physician Assistants

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This is the second in a series of courses designed to develop skills related to the principles of pharmacology as they pertain to therapeutic agents, both prescription and non-prescription. The course will include the principle mechanisms of action of the major classes of therapeutic agents (to parallel the diseases being covered in Clinical Medicine), pharmacodynamics, uses side effects and toxicities. An emphasis in this second course of the series will be placed on the purpose and use of drug schedules, opioid agonists and antagonists, commonly used drugs of abuse and toxicology emergencies.