Pharmacology

Overview of Department:

Department of Pharmacology is a basic medical sciences specialty, deals with imparting knowledge and skills concerning with drug administration to health care professional medical students. Teaching & research opportunities are satisfactorily met with the availability of well-equipped air-conditioned lecture halls, demonstration rooms with high quality audio-visual aids, research & experimental lab. The faculty are involved in drug safety monitoring (pharmacovigilance committee).

Courses offered:

MBBS

Core Competencies:

• Experimental Pharmacology
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Pharmacovigilance
• Pharmacogenomics

Facilities and learning sources:

Library: Having 107 books including question banks & MCQ’s.

Audio-visual aids:

• Desktop computers with internet connection.
• One laptop
• One printer
• Overhead projectors
• LCD monitor
• CDs

Research laboratory with animal house
facility:

Well equipped with basic instruments for conducting research.

Spectrophotometer, Analgesiometers, Electro-convulsometers,
Cooks pole climbing apparatus, metabolic cages, Digitalphotoactometer,
Incubator, Soxhlet apparatus, Dark light chamber apparatus, Elevated plus maze,
Digital PH meter, Centrifuge machines.

Pharmacy laboratory:

• Facility to extract active principles of plant
  products.
• Chemical analysis of unknown substances.
• Preparing & dispensing various drug formulations.

Clinical pharmacology laboratory:

Facility to carry out clinical research work

Museum:

• History of medicine .
• Charts & flow charts .
• Different dosage forms.
• Drugs used in different disease conditions.