MBBS Pharmacology Syllabus
| S.No. | Topic | Domain
|
Hours
(as per MCI) |
| A | General Pharmacology | ||
| 1. | INTRODUCTION: Pharmacology -a foundation to clinical practice | Must Know | 1 |
| 2. | Routes of drug administration | Must Know | 1 |
| 3. | Pharmacokinetics | Must Know | 6 |
| 4. | Pharmacodynamics | Must Know | 6 |
| 5. | Adverse drug Reactions | Must Know | 2 |
| 6. | New drug discovery & clinical trials | Desirable to Know | 1 |
| B | Autonomic nervous system Pharmacology | ||
| 1 | Introduction:
General considerations |
Must Know | 1 |
| 2 | Cholinergic system and drugs | Must Know | 2 |
| 3 | Anticholinergic drugs,drugs acting on autonomic ganglia | Must Know | 1 |
| 4 | Adrenergic system and drugs | Must Know | 1 |
| 5 | Anti-adrenergic drugs | Must Know | 4 |
| 6 | Drugs for glaucoma | Must Know | 1 |
| C | Drugs for cough & Bronchial Asthma | ||
| 1 | Introduction: Cough | Desirable to Know | 1 |
| 2 | Bronchial Asthma | Must Know | 2 |
| D | Autacoids | ||
| 1 | Histamine and antihistaminics | Must Know | 1 |
| 2 | 5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), its antagonists & Drug therapy of Migraine | Must Know | 1 |
| 3 | Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes
(Eicosanoids) and Platelet Activating Factor |
Desirable to Know | 1 |
| 4 | Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory
Drugs and Antipyretic-Analgesics |
Must Know | 2 |
| 5 | Antirheumatoid and antigout drugs | Must Know | 1 |
| E | Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) Pharmacology | ||
| 1 | Local anesthetics | Must Know | 2 |
| 2 | Skeletal muscle relaxants | Must Know | 1 |
| F | CNS Pharmacology | ||
| 1. | Introduction to CNS Pharmacology | Must Know | 1 |
| 2. | General Anaesthetic | Must Know | 2 |
| 3. | Alcohol | Desirable to Know | 1 |
| 4. | Sedative-hypnotics and anxiolytic drugs | Must Know | 2 |
| 5 | Antiepileptic Drugs | Must Know | 2 |
| 6 | Antiparkinsonian Drugs | Must Know | 1 |
| 7 | Antipsychotic and Antimanic Drugs | Desirable to Know | 2 |
| 8 | Antidepressant and Antianxiety
Drugs |
Must Know | 2 |
| 9 | Opioid analgesics & antagonists | Must Know | 2 |
| G | CVS Pharmacology | ||
| 1. | Cardiac Electrophysiological Considerations | Nice to Know | 1 |
| 2. | Drugs affecting Renin- Angiotensin System and Plasma Kinins | Must Know | 2 |
| 3. | Cardiac Glycosides And Drugs for Heart Failure | Must Know | 2 |
| 4. | Anti Arrthymic Drugs | Nice to Know | 2 |
| 5. | Anti – Anginal And Anti Ischaemic Drugs | Must Know | 2 |
| 6 | Anti Hypertensive Drugs | Must Know | 2 |
| H | Endocrine pharmacology | ||
| 1 | Hypothalamic and pituitary hormones | Desirable to Know | 1
|
| 2 | Thyroid Hormones and
Thyroid Inhibitors |
Must Know | 2 |
| 3 | Insulin, Oral Hypoglycaemic
Drugs and Glucagon |
Must Know | 3 |
| 4 | Corticosteroids | Must Know | 2
|
| 5 | Gonadal hormones & inhibitors | Nice to Know | 4
|
| 6 | Drugs Affecting Calcium Balance | Must Know | 1
|
| I | Gastrointestinal drugs Pharmacology
|
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| 1 | Drugs for Peptic Ulcer and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) | Must Know | 1 |
| 2 | Antiemetic, Prokinetic and Digestant Drugs
|
Must Know | 1 |
| 3 | Drugs for Constipation and Diarrhoea
|
Must Know | 1 |
| J | Blood Pharmacology
|
||
| 1 | Haematinics and Erythropoietin
|
Must Know | 2 |
| 2 | Drugs affecting Coagulation, Bleeding & Thrombosis | Must Know | 3
|
| 3 | Hypolipidaemic drugs | Nice to Know | 1
|
| K | Chemotherapy of microbial diseases
|
||
| 1 | Principles of antimicrobial therapy
|
Must Know | 2 |
| 2 | Folate antagonists and
Quinolones |
Must Know | 1 |
| 3 | Inhibitors of cell wall synthesis
|
Must Know | |
| 4 | Protein synthesis inhibitors
|
Must Know | 2 |
| 5 | Drugs for tuberculosis
|
Must Know | 3 |
| 6 | Antileprotic Drugs | Must Know | 1
|
| 7 | Antifungal drugs | Must Know | 1
|
| 8 | Antiviral drugs | Must Know | 2
|
| 9 | Antimalarial Drugs | Must Know | 2
|
| 10 | Antiamoebic and Other
Antiprotozoal Drugs |
Must Know | 2 |
| 11 | Antiparasitic drugs | Must Know | 1
|
| 12 | Anticancer drugs | Nice to Know | 1
|
| L | Miscellaneous topics
|
||
| 1 | Immunopharmacology | Desirable to Know | 1
|
| 2 | Chelating agents | Desirable to Know | 1
|
| 3 | Antiseptics & Disinfectants | Must Know | 1
|
| 4 | Drugs acting on skin & mucous membranes | Nice to Know | 1
|
| 5 | Vitamins | Must Know | 1
|
| 6 | Vaccines & sera | Must Know | 1
|
| 7 | Rational pharmacotherapy | Must Know | 1
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