Learning pharmacology by metaphors: A tale of aminoglycosides

Khilnani, Gurudas; Khilnani, Ajeet Kumar; Thaddanee, Rekha

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“…Since Autobiography is defined as a story written by a living individual about his or her own life, the authors here opine that the same idea can be adapted to non-living things as well, by using interesting figures of speech like personification, apostrophe, and metaphors. This is strengthened by, interesting literature reports on variable use of metaphors in medical subjects like Pharmacology, Pathology and other para-clinical subjects ( Khilnani, Khilnani and Thaddanee, 2016 ; Masukume and Zumla, 2012 ; Khilnani, Khilnani and Thaddanee, 2017 ). Further, exploration reports use of this concept in clinical practice like a narration of feelings of a disease which have been depicted beautifully in a book titled “Autobiography of a Disease” by Patrick Anderson.…”

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“…In the process, Autobiographies help unveil the characteristic sojourn, the twists and turns in the life of a drug. Associating life and imparting soul to drugs can be made creative and interesting by using various figures of speech or rhetorical figures in abundance ( Khilnani et al, 2016 ). Autobiography of drugs is one type of a non-conventional pedagogical tool that makes the teaching-learning process captivating interesting, creative ( Joshi and Ganjiwale, 2015 ), engaging and conceptual.…”

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Using Autobiography a Pedagogical tool in Pharmacology: Traversing the Un-explored

Joshi¹,

Pathak²,

Badyal³

2020

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In today's era, medical teaching is becoming increasingly complex and challenging. Out of all subjects in the medical curriculum, Pharmacology is one of the major disciplines undergoing constant development and advancement. A strong foundation of pharmacological knowledge is needed to help students improve upon their understanding and thereby manage clinical conditions in a more effective manner. Unfortunately, Pharmacology is perceived as a dry and volatile subject by medical students. This calls for a need to explore various pedagogical tools at medical schools, so as to best identify methods effective for active learning. Efforts need to be directed towards the objective of making Pharmacology teaching interesting and learner-centered by formulating creative and innovative teachinglearning modules in and outside the classrooms. Learner-centered teaching can foster students' interest in the subject and contribute to knowledge acquisition as well as future application. In context to this, the current piece explores and addresses the application of "Autobiography of drugs" as one of the pedagogical tools in the subject of Pharmacology.

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Using Autobiography a Pedagogical tool in Pharmacology: Traversing the Un-explored

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Pathak²,

Badyal³

2020

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“…1,2 Learning can be facilitated by giving homologous/analogous examples and story-telling. [3][4][5] The undergraduate students are involved, and learning becomes enjoyable and stress-free. Here is a conversation between two NSAIDs while travelling in anthropomorphic forms (human beings) and discussing the detailed pharmacology and therapeutics of NSAIDs.…”

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Learning Pharmacology by metaphors: a tale of NSAIDs

Khilnani

Thaddanee

2019

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Metaphors are increasingly used for learning in medical education.1,2 Learning can be facilitated by giving homologous/analogous examples and story-telling.3-5 The undergraduate students are involved, and learning becomes enjoyable and stress-free. Here is a conversation between two NSAIDs while travelling in anthropomorphic forms (human beings) and discussing the detailed pharmacology and therapeutics of NSAIDs.

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“…It is possible to prepare a metaphoric presentation to promote integrated learning in pharmacology and microbiology. [5] An instrument, called improved metaphor analysis, is developed to improve the method of using metaphors for research in education. [6] Beta-blockers are drugs that exhibit diverse functional cardiovascular characteristics, because of unique ancillary properties in them -cardioselectivity, membrane stabilizing action, alpha blockade, lipid/water solubility, partial agonist activity (intrinsic sympathomimetic activity [ISA]), and direct vasodilatory actions.…”

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