Postgraduate Programs
Postgraduate Programs
The department contributes actively to to teaching at the post-graduate levels for memberships and Master degrees in Colleges of medicine and college of Pharmacy as follows:
• Teaching of Clinical Pharmacology for doctors who register in the Neurology Fellowship at the College of Medicine.
• Teaching of clinical pharmacology, in collaboration with others, to doctors, enroling in the dermatology membership in King Khalid University Hospital.
• Contribution to the teaching of Clinical Pharmacology to doctors who register in the Opthalmology Fellowship at King Abdulaziz University Hospital.
Contribution to the teaching of Clinical Pharmacology to doctors who register for the Psychiatry Fellowship at King Khalid University Hospital.
• Teaching Clinical Pharmacology and Advanced Pharmacology courses to post-graduate students who register for M.Sc. degree in pharmacology and Toxicology at College
Outlines
A. Pharmacology -231
This course is taught to second year medical students. The course includes the study of the general principles of pharmacology, drugs acting on the autonomic nervous system, cardiovascular system, and endocrine system.
B. Pharmacology -232
This course is taught to third year medical students. The course includes the study of chemotherapeutic agents and drugs acting on the central nervous system, immune system, respiratory and gastrointestinal system.
C. MED 301
This course is taught to third year students. The course is of clinical nature and aids students to update their knowledge. The course also promotes the students skills in scientific writing and research methodology.
D. Practical courses: Practical topics of MPHL -231
1. Effect of drugs on Rabbit's eye.
2. Effect of drugs on cat blood pressure.
3. Effect of drugs on guinea pig ileum.
4. Effect of drugs on isolated rabbit's heart.
Practical topics of MPHL -232
1. Anti – inflammatory drugs.
2. Anticonvulsant drugs.
3. Sleeping time.
4. Local anesthetics
