Short Courses for Medical Doctors

This session describes the ways in which drugs affect their action on the cells via transmembrane signalling.

This session describes the function and structure of intracellular nuclear receptors, including steroid and thyroid hormone receptors.

This session describes how enzymes can be used as targets for drugs, to bring about changes that are potentially beneficial for the patient.

This session examines the ways in which drugs may affect enzyme activity, covers the mechanisms of enzyme induction and inhibition and some significant pharmacokinetic drug interactions that may occur.

This session describes unwanted drug effects and discusses and explores the common categories of unwanted effects

This session describes the definitions, mechanisms and clinically relevant examples of drug tolerance and tachyphylaxis.

This session describes some of the different mechanisms of interactions that can occur between drugs and some of the classification systems used to describe these interactions.

This session covers the pharmacokinetic principles of drug absorption and bioavailability, and factors which can influence these properties such as the process of first-pass metabolism.

This session discusses a number of pharmacokinetic principles relating to distribution of drugs within the body.

This session describes the physicochemical properties of the inhaled anaesthetic drugs and how they affect the onset, maintenance and offset of anaesthesia. We will compare volatile anaesthetic agents using these properties. The session also describes the