The most relevant training activities of the subject are divided into theoretical classes, practical classes in the laboratory and with the computer, specialized seminars (drug presentations by students) and tutorials.

Theory classes

The teachers will give an overview of the subject under study and will make an oral presentation with the help of audiovisual material to develop the aspects of special complexity. At the same time, they can also comment on the material available for the other activities and propose different activities to achieve the learning of the contents and the transversal competences of the subject.

Practical laboratory and computer work

Small groups of students will carry out an experimental work divided in three sessions of four hours each. The aim of these practices is for students to know basic experimental pharmacological techniques, participating in the design of the experimental protocol that will later be performed in the laboratory. The results obtained will be analyzed and discussed with the aid of computers in the last session and may also be contextualized or discussed in theory classes and provide matter for exams. Attendance to all sessions is mandatory.

Specialized seminars with drug presentations by students

A student work will be carried out on different pharmacological and biochemical aspects of a drug in a transversal way. During the first weeks of the semester in the Moodle Classroom there will be a list of drugs that will be worked on in each course, and in groups of two students will be able to express their preferences. The work will be carried out throughout the semester and, in the last days and within the activities scheduled for the subject, there will be a presentation of a maximum of 15 minutes for each work including the questions of the subsequent discussion in which all students and teachers of the subject will be able to participate. Teachers may decide whether oral presentations take place in the classroom or with videoconference. Attendance to all the sessions is mandatory.

Tutorials

A tutor will advise and guide students in carrying out the work about a drug or will resolve doubts on the contents of the subject. Students and their tutor will agree on when and where the tutorials will take place, which can also be done through Teams and Moodle Classroom.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted as an integral part of the development of the work, provided that the final result reflects a significant contribution by the student in the analysis and personal reflection. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The lack of transparency in the use of AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

The evaluation will be individual and continuous. There will be different evaluation activities throughout the semester:

Laboratory practices

The teaching staff will evaluate laboratory practice competences through continuous assessment during the three practice sessions, the creation and completion of an experimental protocol and a final report. These assessments will consist of 10% of the overall grade of the subject. Attendance to these sessions is mandatory and not recoverable.

Work about a drug

The students will have to work in groups of two summarize information about a drug independently but also with tutoring. At the end of the subject, a short-written report and an oral presentation of this work will be required. From all these activities, a work score will be obtained that will represent 22% of the final grade of the subject. Attendance at the oral presentations of all works on a drug is mandatory and non-recoverable.

Partial exams 1 and 2

There will be two exams during the semester. The first corresponding to the first four topics of the subject and to the practices in the laboratory and with a weight of 34% on the final grade of the subject. The second exam will be of subjects 5-8 and will also have a weight of 34%.

Retake exam

There will be a retake exam for students who fail one or both midterm exams (grade below 5) or that want to improve the grade obtained. To participate in this exam, you must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject. To pass, students must have achieved a minimum grade of 4 in all midterm exams, and a weighted average of 5 in total. Students who retake a midterm exam will automatically waive the grade they obtained in the prior midterm exam to retake. Laboratory practice grades and work about a drug are not recoverable. The recovery exam will also evaluate the teaching objectives worked on in all the different training activities (theory classes, laboratory practices and specialized seminars).

Exam format

The exams will consist of written questions to answer in a limited space and time, which could be complemented with test and other evaluation modalities.

Global evaluation

The final mark of the subject will be obtained from the marks of the laboratory practices (10%), work about a drug (22%), exam 1 (34%) and exam 2 (34%). The retake exam will therefore have a maximum weight of 65%. The subject will be considered passed when the weighted score of all sections exceeds 5, and a mark equal to or higher than 4 has been taken in each of the partial exams (1 and 2) or in the corresponding part of the retake exam.

Non-Assessable

The grade of \"non-Assessable\" will be obtained when the assessment activities carried out have a weighting of less than 67% in the final grade or when the absence from the compulsory practices and activities is greater than 20% of the scheduled sessions.

Voluntary use of English

To encourage the voluntary use of English by students, 0.3 points out of 10 will be added to all assessment activities if English is used correctly.

Unique assessment

Students who have requested a single assessment according to the procedures established by the UAB will be able to do it for all the activities of the subject except for attendance at practical and oral presentations of the work on a drug, as these are mandatory activities and cannot be recovered. The single assessment will be structured in the same way as the continuous assessment, with the same relative weight of each part. The same system of recovery, review of grades and determination of the \"Non-Assessable\" grade will be applied. The single assessment will be carried out on the same day as the second theory part and will include parts 1 and 2 of the continuous assessment.

Detection of irregularities

The commission of any irregularity in an assessment (academic fraud, plagiarism or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the teaching guide), which may lead to a significant variation in the grade, implies that this assessment will be graded with a 0. In the event that the teaching guide provides that in order to pass the subject it is required to have obtained a minimum grade in this assessment act, the final grade for this subject will be 0. Similarly, if several irregularities are detected in the assessments, the final grade for this subject will be 0. Apart from this, a disciplinary process may be initiated against the student who incurs any of hese irregularities.