PHRD-314: Pharmacotherapeutics II: Principles of Pharmacotherapeutics

Pharmcotherapeutics (PT) is a 5-semester, team-taught, integrated course sequence combining material from four major content areas: phathophysiology, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, and therapeutics. It is designed to provide students with the opportunity to learn, integrate and aply concepts from the four content areas in order to provide the necessary information for pharmaceutical management of variety of disease states. In this second of twelve modules basic principles of: absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME), homeostasis, drug interactions, drug induced diseases and clinical lab values are presented and serve as foundational material for subsequent modules. Implications and application across the life span will be incorporated. Prerequisite: PHRD-313 Pharmacotherapeutics I. Corequisites: PHRD-306 Pharmacist Care Laboratory II, PHRD-309 Immunology. [ 2 credits ]