Abstract
Pharmacokinetics is concerned with understanding what the body does to a drug and is a model-based approach to understanding and predicting dose, metabolism, and excretion of drugs. As a critical, threshold concept in undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacology degree programmes, pharmacokinetics represents a genuine student challenge. As a discipline with its roots in mathematics, the use of equations, graphs and data-modelling moves the student considerably outside their comfort zone, which makes visualisation of the core pharmacological concepts and how they inter-relate difficult for even the most astute. Feedback suggests current teaching approaches are ineffective; students rarely reach an appropriate level of competence and confidence with the subject.
The underpinning rationale focused on designing engaging ways in which students could enhance appreciation of the subject and this was best achieved by employing students with recent experience of the subject area to lead the design i.e. a resource created by students, for students.
The underpinning rationale focused on designing engaging ways in which students could enhance appreciation of the subject and this was best achieved by employing students with recent experience of the subject area to lead the design i.e. a resource created by students, for students.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | 12th Enhancement Themes Conference - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Jun 2015 → 11 Jun 2015 |
Conference
Conference | 12th Enhancement Themes Conference |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Glasgow |
Period | 9/06/15 → 11/06/15 |