8BKG43 · 6 credits · Basic level (G2X) · Medicinsk biologi
Pharmacology
Active · next start VT 2027
63%
passed the latest regular sitting
43WE · 26 Mar 2026 · 40 students
54%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
43WE · 188 students
74%
Harder than 74% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 78 students.
Part of 1 programme
Other module
43WE Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Main rounds
54% passed · 188 students
- 63%40
- 66%38
- 53%47
- 35%34
- 52%29
Later rounds
50% passed · 121 students
- 75%12
- 73%11
- 47%17
- 64%11
- 47%19
- 27%11
- 33%15
- 30%10
- 60%15
- Pass a later round: 50% (121 students), compared with 54% (188 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 26% (309 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%4
Other modules
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Other module
43CE Compulsory elements
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 165 students
- 100%21
- 100%43
- 100%41
- 100%20
- 100%40
Later rounds
100% passed · 17 students
- 100%6
- 100%5
- 100%6
- Pass a later round: 100% (17 students), compared with 100% (165 students) on the ordinary exam
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About the course
Aim
Knowledge and understanding
Having completed the course, the student is expected to be able to:
- Explain how drugs act at a molecular and cellular level (pharmacodynamics)
- Explain how drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolised and eliminated (pharmacokinetics)
- Explain the mechanisms behind and consequences of tolerance and drug interactions
- Explain the mechanisms, therapeutic effects and side effects of drugs within various groups
- Describe the pharmacological treatment principles for different disease groups
Skills and abilities
On completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
- Apply laboratory methods to the study of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics
- Compile and analyse results of pharmacological experiments
- Describe pharmacological data orally and in writing
Judgement ability and approach
On completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
- Critically appraise and evaluate knowledge within the field of pharmacology from an academic, ethical and social perspective.
Content
The course is a basic course in pharmacology that is required in order to understand industrial drug development, clinical drug trials and pharmacological research. The course aims to provide a general understanding of the mechanisms, metabolism, interaction and pharmacological effects of drugs. The course elucidates how different drugs are used in the treatment of specific diseases: cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension, heart failure and ischaemic heart disease), coagulation disorders (haemostasis and platelet drugs), neurological diseases, respiratory diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer.
The course encompasses the field of pharmacology, with links to cell biology, physiology, pathology and biochemistry.
- Examiner
- Eva Lindström
- Main field of study
- Medicinsk biologi