PHRM30003: Drug Treatment of Disease

70% exam, 10% on attendance to workshops, 20% to 3 or so online open book tests.

Alrightyyy, so comments. I guess I'll start with assessment? I'm not really sure who that question is directed at... Maybe its the holiday euphoria...

Workshops and tutes are held throughout semester, 3 workshops and probs 3 tutes. They are held in lecture times. Workshops are essentially a lecture but you get given a sheet which has questions on it that you answer throughout the lecture, submit it at the end and that's it. Not really sure if they actually grade it or just check to see if your student number is there and have written something on the page. Either way, just make sure you go and don't forget like I did. Woops... Oh and the workshops aren't assessed on the final exam.
Tutes are in lecture slots too and they just present you with a question and show you how to answer what to include. Pretty useful for the exam.
The 20% is 3 or so quizzes on the LMS, they have maybe 15 questions for you to do in 60 minutes. All multichoice, just have your notes in front of you and that 20% is yours.
And then the exam... 2 hours, 6 questions that are 10 marks each. You choose your 6 questions from 7 though which is nice. The questions may be split into a,b,c or just a question like choose two anti-hypertensives and explain their mechanism of action and their advantages and disadvantages. The questions this year were fair except for 1 question, who knows how fair the marking will be though.

Lecture topics are in the handbook link. The lectures are typically presented in a "here's the disease, here's the problem with the disease, here is how we fix/fixed/will fix the problem"
I didn't enjoy this subject nearly as much as I did last year. Maybe it was because the teaching quality maybe wasn't as good, or maybe because it seemed like a lot of content we had already covered before (I mean christine wrights lectures on hypertension were essentially exactly the same plus learning the mechanism of side effects).
So for the new topics, they are obviously new which means new and interesting stuff to learn. But for the topics that were covered last year that are again covered this year, you basically just learn the mechanism in more detail(if possible) plus learning the mechanism of the side effects. Thats probably why I gave this subject a 3.5. Because while the new stuff was interesting, the old stuff seemed boring(even though i'd forgotten it all from last year) and perhaps the lecturing quality wasn't as good. I don't know, I guess i'm just a bit apathetic about the subject. That said, if i could go back in time I would probably still tell myself to do the subject... maybe..hmmm maybe not.

Pm me for any questions.

Yes

Lots

Yes, lots.

3.5/5

Nothing.

3 lectures a week, 6 or so tutes and workshops held in lecture times

2014 -sem 2

Don't know yet.