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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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