Small group discussions (SGD) within the team-based learning (TBL) strategy as a potential form of distance pharmacology learning

Abstract

The main task of higher education at the present stage is to prepare students who are able not only to obtain certain theoretical knowledge, but also to master the skills of applying the acquired knowledge in specific situations. Pharmacology is, first of all, an interdisciplinary subject, which results in an understanding of the drug's effects on the human body. The consequence of this is that students obtain the necessary theoretical basis for, agonistic or antagonistic effects of drugs on certain receptors in body tissues, the main biochemical pathways of interaction with relevant receptors, pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, mechanisms of drug dependence and toxic effects of medicines, especially, taking into account the genetic variation of each person in his response to the drug.