Pharmacovigilance in the program of Pharmacology of Medicine pre-grade studies

Abstract

Introduction: Pharmacology is very wide as a science, and includes all the aspects related with the drugs or medications. It is the scientific support of the therapeutics that is taught in all the clinical subjects.
Objective: to identify the pharmacovigilance contents in the program of the subject Pharmacology in the Medicine pre-grade studies.
Materials and Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional study stating the presence of pharmacovigilance in the Pharmacology program of the Medicine pre-grade studies. A methodology proposed for the documental analysis was used.
Results: the documental analysis showed that among the Pharmacology educative aims are: to develop a conception, behaviour and performance contributing to the training in the rational and scientific use of medications in all the levels of the health care, with emphasis in the primary one. There are included the main groups of substances tending to create dependence in people, and also the application of the knowledge on the pharmacological bases of dependence and addiction. It was stated the existence of medicinal plants and herbal medicines that could produce adverse reactions or interactions with medications.
Conclusions: Medicine students should be trained on the principles of rational prescription before participating in medical care. Studying medications security from the point of view of their consumption may have both, beneficial and harmful effect. The last ones reveals in adverse reactions that may appear always when there is exposition to a medication.