Department of Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology is headed by Prof. Iffat Ara. Pharmacology is taught in 3rd year MBBS students. Both the basic & clinical aspects of the knowledge of drugs/medicines are covered. The objective is to enable the medical graduates to prescribe drugs rationally to their patients for cure or primary therapy, suppression of symptoms, prevention & diagnosis of the disease. Moreover, they should be able to monitor drug therapy, detect and manage adverse reactions, over-dosage and poisoning of drugs.
To achieve the above objectives, a highly qualified and experienced faculty caries out the teaching schedules. The students are familiarized with different dosage forms of drugs along with their routes of administration & calculations of doses. Experiments are designed in which students demonstrate the effects of selected drugs on suitable animals / tissues in a well equipped laboratory. The observations are correlated with their clinical uses.