A Pharmacology Teaching Exercise With Barbiturates

Barbiturates.

A.7 Barbiturates

The term 'barbiturate' refers to drugs which are derivatives of barbituric acid (malonylurea). Barbituric acid itself has no significant psychotropic properties, but its derivatives may have a variety of effects on the central nervous system. Certain of those compounds with significant depressant or sedative-hypnotic properties are of primary importance in medical and nonmedical use. Many of th...

Teaching therapy-oriented pharmacology within a medical curriculum

Background Pharmacology has been known to medical students as a hard-to-study subject that includes learning by heart hundreds of receptors and pathways, mechanisms of action, substances and side effects in a very limited time. Once graduated, young MDs are confronted with applied pharmacology without being properly prepared choosing and prescribing the right drug in the proper dose to individu...

Teaching Cardiac Arrhythmias: A Focus on Pathophysiology and Pharmacology

PROLOGUE The following manuscript reviews a method of teaching the pathophysiology and pharmacology of cardiac arrhythmias. This manuscript is supplemented with a complimentary web site (http://www.onu.edu/user/fs/jsprague/AJPE.html). Those interested in obtaining further information can use this site for lecture notes, animations of cellular mechanisms, practice case reports, electrocardiogram...

A Constructive Classroom Exercise for Teaching InfoVis

At the beginning of a visualization course, it can be challenging to provide simple, practical exercises that allow students to explore the benefits and constraints of different visual mappings. We present an interactive teaching exercise, adapted from the VizKit visualization workshop, that can help illustrate and encourage critical thinking about basic visualization concepts. In this paper we...