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Site Synopsis:

The site presents cases selected to deal with concepts in pharmacology & therapeutics, with sections on clinical history, clinical and laboratory findings, eventually characteristic pathologies, and a set of hypothetical diagnostic or therapeutic .

Educational Goals:

To provide the learning experience similar to that achieved in small-group problem-elaboration sessions in the McGill Medical curriculum. 

This project is based in translation of experience in case elaboration as practiced in Medical Pharmacology for 20 years into a web environment for the Unit 8 of the integrated medical curriculum. A set of selected Case Studies is created with structured flow and extensive cross-referencing to the Notes as well as additional internet based sources and modules.

No attempt is made to provide intelligent tutoring but the learning experience should allow the user, primarily medical student but eventually residents and practitioners, to understanding basic principles in drug actions, criteria for therapeutic interventions and patholophysiological mechanisms in the area of drug abuse and addictions, by facilitating access to relevant information though a realistic environment of a case.
Benefits: 
  1. acquisition of understanding of normal and abnormal human biology an behaviour in complex environment ("knowledge retrieval is related to organization of information at intake").
  2. acquisition of clinical skills in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and in so doing, expose student to a variety of realistic practice settings (e.g., hospital, private practice and community)
  3. understanding and evaluation of design and results of medical research.
  4. advancing an appreciation of the psychological, social and population-based dimensions of illness and health.
Intended audience:   First/Second year medical students in Unit 7/8

 

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