📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
💊 Pharmacology
Fundamentals of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Define basic terms including chemotherapy, antibiotic, antimicrobial, MIC, MBC, chemoprophylaxis, empirical therapy, post-antibiotic effect, and bacteriostatic and bactericidal antimicrobials.
- Explain the advantages of antimicrobial drug combinations.
- Describe the various mechanisms of bacterial resistance against antibiotics.
- Differentiate concentration-dependent and time-dependent killing with examples.
- Classify antimicrobials on the basis of mechanism of action.
