Medical Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the biomedical science concerned with the study of the effects of chemicals on living organisms, tissues, cells and biologic molecules. Its domains of investigation range from the molecular to the social. Pharmacology is an integrative science requiring knowledge bases from anatomy, microanatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, immunology and pathology for understanding the complex actions that chemicals have on the living organism.

Medical Pharmacology provides the second year Medical Student with a course designed to prepare the student for the rational and safe use of drugs in the control, prevention and therapy of human disease. This goal is accomplished through the presentation of a body of general principles of pharmacology together with appropriately relevant fundamental information which illustrates the principles and serves to aid the student's comprehension of the principles. A major objective is to develop a scientific basis for the practitioner's own evaluation of data accompanying the future introduction of new drugs.

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Department of Pharmacology & Physiology
UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
185 South Orange Avenue | Newark | New Jersey  07103 (973) 972-4444
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