The Virtual Pharmacology Lab repository is designed to provide teachers of pharmacology and related subjects with access to a wide range of electronic resources for teaching. In particular it provides resources from a range of simulations of laboratory experiments involving isolated tissue preparations, in vivo animal preparations and some human experiments. To visit the site, please click on this link.
The resources include:
Currently the repository comprises several hundred resources obtained by disaggregating a number of existing computer-assisted learning (CAL) materials owned by the developer (Dewhurst) plus a small number of other resources. These CALs have been designed to support practical teaching of pharmacology, to mainly undergraduate students, and simulate experiments on preparations which have been used for many years in undergraduate teaching. It is hoped that other pharmacologists/physiologists will wish to contribute additional resources and make these freely available to colleagues for (non-profit) teaching purposes under a Creative Commons license. If you have any resources you do wish to contribute please contact [email protected] in the first instance.
The repository is still being developed so any ideas on how you think it might be improved would be very welcome.
The resources include:
- data traces of the effects of a wide range of pharmacological agents administered either alone or in combination with other agents which antagonize or potentiate their actions;
- animations, images and textual descriptions of the preparations, the experimental methods, and the underlying physiology, pharmacology, pathology;
- self-assessment questions with answers and feedback
Currently the repository comprises several hundred resources obtained by disaggregating a number of existing computer-assisted learning (CAL) materials owned by the developer (Dewhurst) plus a small number of other resources. These CALs have been designed to support practical teaching of pharmacology, to mainly undergraduate students, and simulate experiments on preparations which have been used for many years in undergraduate teaching. It is hoped that other pharmacologists/physiologists will wish to contribute additional resources and make these freely available to colleagues for (non-profit) teaching purposes under a Creative Commons license. If you have any resources you do wish to contribute please contact [email protected] in the first instance.
The repository is still being developed so any ideas on how you think it might be improved would be very welcome.