Pharmacology in Health Professions

Training for pharmacy and occupational therapy students.

Pharmacy students

As a budding pharmacist, you’ll need a solid understanding of pharmacology under your belt before you’re ready to dispense drugs.

Pharmacology for Pharmacy I
(PHAC 1471)
Part one of a two semester course providing an introduction to Pharmacology, emphasizing basic mechanisms of drug action and principals of drug-receptor interactions, pharmacokinetics, and drug metabolism.

Pharmacology for Pharmacy II
(PHAC 1472)
Part two of a two semester course providing an introduction to Pharmacology, emphasizing basic mechanisms of drug action and principals of drug-receptor interactions, pharmacokinetics, and drug metabolism.

Occupational therapy students

Helping people learn to live with an injury or illness that affects mobility requires knowledge of a broad range of topics. Often these people will be taking pharmaceuticals or natural remedies that affect the way they live.

Pharmacology for Occupational Therapists
(OCCU 6130)
This is a mandatory second-year course that not only provides comprehensive information on how drug therapy affects patients, it also introduces the basic principles of pharmacology, including drug delivery, pharmakinetics and metabolism.