Monash Medical Centre – Online Collaborative Teaching

Collaborative Teaching
Please register for the Monash Health Primary Education Network Online Tutorial Sessions with the link below. These hour-long tutorials are based around unpacking your responses to pre-determined SAQs on defined syllabus topics with either a Consultant Intensivist, or a Senior Trainee recently successful at the Primary Examination. Some sessions may include an unseen SAQ written to time during the session. The topic, facilitator, and their contact details are given below.
Topic: General Pharmacology and cellular physiology
Facilitator: Neil Glassford
Contact Email: neil.glassford2@monashhealth.org

SAQs

1. Explain the mechanisms of transport of substances across cell membranes including appropriate examples (75% marks). Outline the structure and function of the Na+/K+-ATPase pump (25% marks).
2. Explain the mechanisms responsible for the cell resting membrane potential (60% of marks) and describe the Gibbs Donnan effect (40% of marks)
3. How do chemical messengers in the extracellular fluid bring about changes in cell function? Give an example of a chemical messenger for each mechanism noted.
4. What are receptors? (20% marks). Discuss the relationship between the properties of a drug and potential receptor response under the following headings: agonists, partial agonists, inverse agonists and antagonists (80% marks)
5. List the different mechanisms of drug actions with examples