Short Courses for Medical Doctors

The session covers the main classes of drugs used to treat both non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, as well as the use of insulin and the different formulations of insulin.

This session describes the drugs commonly used in the treatment of mood disorders and psychosis, their mechanism of action and important adverse effects.

This session will classify antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) according to their mechanism of action and discuss their uses and interactions.

This session describes the pharmacology and clinical indications for the use of antiviral and antifungal drugs in critical care.

This session describes the antibiotic drugs used most commonly in anaesthesia and critical care.

This session introduces the common groups of diuretic medications, their mechanisms of action and their common side-effects.

This session covers commonly used antiemetics, with reference to the pathophysiology of postoperative nausea and vomiting, their mode of action and side effects.

This session describes the classification of drugs currently used which act on the GI tract, as well as their dosage, common uses in clinical practice and side-effects.

Module 7c provides content on general pharmacological principles, together with information of drugs likely to be encountered in anaesthetic practice ...

This session looks at drugs which are used primarily for their effects on the respiratory system, with particular emphasis on those drugs that may be encountered by the anaesthetist. Therapies for the management of acute asthma are only briefly mentioned