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Those wishing to may apply to take the course with accreditation. The University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education offers Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) points for the course. Participants attending at least 75% of the taught course and successfully completing assessed assignments are eligible to earn credit equivalent to 20 CATS-equivalent points which may be counted towards a postgraduate qualification. Those who do not wish to undertake the assessed work required for academic credit will receive a certificate of attendance at the end of the course.

<p style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;">The course has been designed to:</p><ul style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><li>introduce the concept of pharmacodynamics and how it can be incorporated into modern clinical trial design to improve selection of drug dose and schedule</li><li>enable students to understand how drugs act and how the pharmacodynamic effect is translated into a therapeutic effect</li><li>enable students to analyse how drug act on receptors, second messengers, enzymes and transport processes</li><li>enable students to understand drug–ligand interactions and models, dose-response curves and biomarkers and surrogate endpoints</li><li>enable students to apply their knowledge to pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling</li></ul>

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