FRM5740 – Advanced Pharmacokinetics
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The students are to deepen their understanding of pharmacokinetics with a focus on dosage regimens.
Learning outcome
At the end of the course the students are to have acquired the necessary knowledge so that he/she will be able to:
- Calculate pharmacokinetic variables (AUC, T1/2, etc.) with Excel to determine simple dosages
- Calculate pharmacokinetic variables (AUC, T1/2, etc.) with Excel to determine multiple dosages
- Know the fundamental principles for calculating intervenous dosage regimens
- Know the fundamental principles for calculating oral dosage regimens
- Know the principles for adjusting treatment regimens and how this may affect interactions with other medicine, diet, and the like
- Understand the principles behind population pharmacokinetic modulation
Admission to the course
The course is primarily open to students who have been admitted to the Department?of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo. If there is space available then others may also apply to take the course as long as their academic background is adequate.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
The course is only available to students who have passed their pharmacy apprenticeship and have passed all previous pharmacy courses or have the equivalent within pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with FRM9740 – Videreg?ende farmakokinetikk (discontinued).
- 6 credits overlap with FARM5150 – Applied pharmacokinetics and dosing in clinical practice.
Teaching
Lectures and compulsory math assignments.
The course will be taught with the help of lectures and integrated math assignments two days a week during a 7 week period during the spring semester. Individual work with the math exercises needs to be expected beyond this period (approximately a half day a week). The students are to use computer tools, primarily Excel, but also more specialized kinetic programs will be used during the course.
The math assignments need to be approved in order for the student to be eligible for the final exam.
Inactivity and / or excessive absences in compulsory education means that the student does not receive final assessment / examination.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
The course can be canceled if the number of students enrolled is low.
Examination
A four hour digital written exam/oral exam after the number of students.
Digital examination
The written examination is conducted in the digital examination system Inspera. You will need to familiarize yourself with the digital examination arrangements in Inspera.
Read more about written examinations using Inspera.
Withdrawal from an examination
It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
It will also be counted as one of the three?attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses:
Examination support material
As of 1 August, 2016, the use of own calculators is no longer permitted. Casio FX-991EX calculators are handed out to all exam candidates at the beginning of the exam.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.