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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