Pharmacology is a very straight forward course for medical students. It is simply everything you ever wanted to know about the basic classes of drugs, plus a lot you never wanted to know.
Like pathology, there is a considerable quantity of clinical material woven into the course. After all, what good does it do to study drugs without knowing something about the diseases associated with them? Pharmacology, however, represents the conflict of medical training in which PhD researchers are attempting to teach clinically related material with which they have no training or experience. The unfortunate result is that a certain amount of dogma that is either clinically irrelevant or just plain incorrect is presented within the framework of the course. The debate over the effects, consequences, and value of such instruction has probably existed as long as medical school have existed.
last updated December 31, 1995
The Mature Medical Student
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