Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Define how medicines act on the body and how the body handles them
• Explain how drug safety work finds, checks, and prevents medicine harm
• Distinguish side effects, adverse reactions, and medication errors in simple terms
• Identify how medicines target parts of the body to create effects
• Compare helpful, harmful, and unwanted effects of medicines in real use
• Outline the journey of a medicine from discovery to public use.
• Describe how medicines enter, move, and leave the body
• Calculate basic ideas like half-life to understand dosing timing
• Classify medicines by use, action, and common naming types
• Apply safe practices to avoid errors and reduce medicine-related harm.
• Assess reports to judge if a medicine likely caused a reaction
• Evaluate benefits and risks to support safer medicine decisions