Pharmacology is a course which contents are highly identifiable by

the name itself. This course is designed to educated students on

specific medication classes and the most commonly used
medications of these classes while also understanding the specific
modalities of how these drugs work. Lastly, it is discussed in deep
detail as to why a specific medication or medication class is used in
a certain scenario. This topic delves further into the actions of the
medications as well as the potential side effects and
contraindications of certain medications, explaining why one
medication or medication class may be preferred for a specific
patient versus another medication. Pharmacology application in the
clinical setting is not yet touched upon in this lecture (as far as
practice in a lab) but the importance of extreme attention to detail
is discussed. Any one medication can provide positive or negative
effects to the patients health dependent on the appropriateness of
the drug and how the person receiving the medication responds.
This intern resulted in patient education and assessment for
negative side effects becoming two large components of the lecture
for this course. In all, this course equipped me with sources to
constantly refer to in times later in my career, side effects and
contraindications of the drugs lectured upon, appropriate dosage
and routes to administer specific medications, and the key to
weighing out risk V.S. reward for any medication prior to
administration.