Pharmacology without urban legends

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Topic

Critical thinking about medicines, with facts instead of beliefs. The elective course "Pharmacology without Urban Legends" offers medical and pharmacy students an opportunity to prepare for the subjects Pharmacology, Pharmacodynamics.  For students from other faculties, it aims to develop a broader perspective on medicines in an easily digestible, thought-provoking and interactive format that can be useful in everyday life. During the course, we will challenge common misconceptions about medicines that are well known but not accurate. The course will focus on developing critical thinking and knowledge transfer.

Lectures

• 1. "Natural remedies are not medicines" - Csekő Kata
• 2. "If it doesn't work, take more" - Csekő Kata
• 3. "The injection is always more effective" - Csekő Kata
• 4. "Placebo is just a fantasy" - Csekő Kata
• 5. "The strongest is the best" - Aczél Tímea
• 6. "It's also good for colds" - Aczél Tímea
• 7. "If they are good on their own, they are good together" - Csekő Kata
• 8. "The antidepressant changes your personality" - Csekő Kata
• 9. "Big Pharma hides the natural solution" - Aczél Tímea
• 10. "If it has side effects, it is a bad medicine" - Aczél Tímea
• 11. "Quickly thrown to the market" - Csekő Kata
• 12. How to be a more conscious medicine user? - Csekő Kata

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

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Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

To be accepted for the semester, the student must give a short presentation of up to 10 minutes on the given topics or submit a paper of up to 2 pages during the semester.

Mid-term exams

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Making up for missed classes

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Exam topics/questions

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Examiners

• Csekő Kata

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Aczél Tímea
• Csekő Kata