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Foundation-II Module — 3rd Year MBBS

📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

💊 Pharmacology

 

Drug Distribution

  • Define distribution and redistribution of drugs.
  • Describe plasma protein binding and its clinical significance in disease.
  • Describe factors affecting drug distribution.

Volume of Distribution and Loading Dose

  • Define volume of distribution.
  • Enlist drugs with small and large volumes of distribution.
  • Apply the formula for calculating volume of distribution.
  • Explain its clinical significance.
  • Define loading dose.
  • Enlist drugs in which a loading dose is administered.
  • Apply the formula for calculating loading dose.

Physiological Barriers

  • Enlist important physiological barriers to drug transport.
  • Describe the blood-brain and placental barriers and their clinical significance.

Drug Biotransformation

  • Define biotransformation and xenobiotics.
  • Describe the objectives and fate of drugs following biotransformation.
  • Name the major sites of biotransformation.
  • Describe microsomal CYP450 and non-microsomal drug-metabolizing enzymes.
  • Describe phases and reactions of biotransformation.
  • Describe factors affecting drug biotransformation.

Pharmacogenetics and Enzyme Modulation

  • Define pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics.
  • Define idiosyncrasy with examples.
  • Describe genetic factors influencing drug biotransformation.
  • Define enzyme induction and enlist important enzyme inducers.
  • Explain the clinical significance of enzyme induction.
  • Define enzyme inhibition and enlist important enzyme inhibitors.
  • Explain the clinical significance of enzyme inhibition.

Describe suicide or mechanism-based inhibition with examples.

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