About the Course
Did you know that the global human insulin market crossed $23 billion in 2013 and is estimated to cross $42 billion by 2019?
With a sudden rise in the incidence of endocrine related disorders such as diabetes, thyroid dysfunction in recent times, drugs used in their treatment have created a fabulous multibillion dollar market. It speaks volumes of the importance of endocrine pharmacology.
Endocrine pharmacology deals with the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of hormonal action and hormone-related drugs that modify the synthesis or action of normally secreted hormones.
In this course, pharmacology of anterior pituitary hormones, thyroid and anti-thyroid hormones, anti-diabetic drugs, corticosteroid, estrogens, progestins, contraceptives, and androgens are discussed in detail with their mechanism of actions, indications, contraindications, dosages and side effects.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy, BSc Pharmacology.
Postgraduate students – Endocrinology, General medicine, Family medicine, MD/MSc/PhD Pharmacology.
Course Delivery Format
This course is delivered entirely online. It consists of a series of comprehensive lectures by a professor in the subject, appropriately annotated with slides, animations and wherever necessary, interactive content. The delivery offers tremendous flexibility. You may pause a teacher while you refer to your textbooks (not includes) and to take notes. You may also rewind a segment to listen to the teacher again or you may skip a slide or two if you already know that bit. You may bookmark a segment that you wish to return to later, maybe to refresh just before your exams. While the lessons in this course may be arranged in a particular order based on our curriculum, you have the flexibility to take them in order of your preference based on your personalized learning needs.
Benefits
While this course is to help you learn the subject from an online faculty, it may help you in several ways even if you are already enrolled in some medical, dental or paramedical school. Many of our students felt that the format in which this course is delivered has helped them to cope up against the fast paced lectures in actual class – it’s like having a TV remote in class to self-pace your teacher. Animations help understand concepts better by making concepts easy to understand… and difficult to forget.
Dr. G. V. Thakare
Asso. Professor physiology, SBHGMC, Dhule.