📘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.
