year-2-study-guide-2.. - School of Medicine - Trinity College Dublin
year-2-study-guide-2.. - School of Medicine - Trinity College Dublin
year-2-study-guide-2.. - School of Medicine - Trinity College Dublin
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Module 3: PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY & PRACTICAL<br />
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH<br />
ECTS Value<br />
10 Credits<br />
Contact Hours<br />
46 hrs lectures<br />
2 tutorials 3 hr<br />
2 computer sessions 4.5 hr<br />
2 wet laboratory practical 4.5 hr<br />
Research projects 100 hr<br />
Time for tutorial preparation 3 hr<br />
Time for self <strong>study</strong> relating to research projects 10 hr<br />
Lecturers<br />
Dr Paul Spiers (Course and Research Co-ordinator)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Michael Rowan<br />
Dr Michael Barry<br />
Dr Margaret Lucitt<br />
Dr Jennifer Kieran<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Michael Lambert<br />
Dr Mary Teeling<br />
Mr Alan Kennedy<br />
Aims<br />
This mandatory course is aimed at developing knowledge and understanding <strong>of</strong> the<br />
pharmacological basis <strong>of</strong> therapeutics in order that the student will gain a critical and<br />
intelligent insight into the scientific underpinnings <strong>of</strong> drug use and abuse. The course<br />
comprises a series <strong>of</strong> lectures, tutorials and student practicals. In addition, students<br />
undertake a research project over a 14-week period during which they generate and<br />
analyse their own data, with a view to learning scientific method and reasoning. This<br />
usually involves <strong>study</strong> design, generating personal data, quality control, statistical<br />
evaluation, interpretation <strong>of</strong> results and presentation to an audience by poster.<br />
Students must also demonstrate the ability to evaluate literature in the form <strong>of</strong><br />
submitting a short research paper based upon their project.<br />
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