In 2023, Harvard University, Oxford University and Stanford University ranked the top three in the world in the QS World University Pharmacy and Pharmacology Ranking. Compared with the comprehensive ranking of world universities, the ranking of professional disciplines is more valuable for students who choose specific majors. In addition, Tehran University in Iran ranks 360th in this list.
This ranking is based on the evaluation of the teaching and scientific research quality of pharmacy and pharmacology majors in colleges and universities, which has certain authority and reference value. For students who are interested in further study in pharmacy and pharmacology, they can choose their own schools according to this ranking.
Introduction to pharmacology:
Pharmacology is a science of medicine and biology, which specializes in the interaction between drugs and organisms and its laws and principles. Pharmacology in a narrow sense refers to the science of studying the physiological or biochemical changes of drugs in organisms. Although pharmacology is an independent science, it is closely related to other disciplines.
Therefore, pharmacology in a broad sense refers to the science of studying the composition and structure, physical and chemical properties, physiological and biochemical effects, mechanism of action, absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, therapeutic use, toxicity, dosage and disease-resistant mechanism of drugs. Pharmacology and pharmacy are different concepts and are often confused. Pharmacology is mainly the scientific research of biomedicine, and pharmacy mainly uses the knowledge of pharmacology to provide patients with higher quality medical care and services. The former is scientific and the latter is clinical.
Topics and tasks of pharmacology:
The subject task of pharmacology is to clarify the mechanism of drug action, improve the quality and efficacy of drugs, develop new drugs, find new uses of drugs, and provide experimental data for exploring the physiological, biochemical and pathological processes of cells. The method of pharmacology is experimental, that is, observing the law of action of drugs on the body or its components under strictly controlled conditions and analyzing its objective action principle.
Clinical pharmacology, which is gradually developed and established, is an applied science with clinical patients as its research and service object. Its task is to transform the basic theory of pharmacology into clinical medication technology and the pharmacological action into actual curative effect. It is a follow-up part of basic pharmacology. The main purpose of studying pharmacology is to understand the function and mechanism of drugs and how to give full play to their clinical efficacy, integrate theory with practice, and understand the causal relationship of drugs in the process of exerting their efficacy.