Clinical Pharmacology

Clinical pharmacology is a medical discipline that, on a scientific basis, combines pharmacological and clinical expertise with the ultimate goal of improving efficacy and safety in the clinical use of drugs. Clinical pharmacologists play an active role in providing information about drugs. This may be done in collaboration with pharmacists, and there may well be local or regional drug information centers. The goals of the research in clinical pharmacology will be to improve drug therapy, not only by developing means to avoid unwanted effects but also by improving the efficacy of therapy through various means of drug and effect monitoring. Clinical pharmacology research can be done in all academic medical disciplines. Therefore, studies such as clinical pharmacokinetics, Clinical pharmacodynamics, Drug evaluation and therapeutic trials, and Drug epidemiology /utilization can be undertaken as research areas.