Sport's Pharmacology

Recommended Prerequisites

Master degree in Medicine or Dental Medicine. Basic computer skills. Portuguese and English.

Teaching Methods

There are theorical lessons in the classroom, and teaching  in groups (depending on the number of students), performing tasks or solving problems or cases.

Learning Outcomes

The student must know the main pharmacological groups used in Sports, knowing how to make a rational prescription. He must know the list of doping substances and how to prescribe a drug of that list, if necessary, by AUT. The student must be critical of dietary supplements and energy drinks, knowing their advantages and disadvantages and adverse effects.  

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Drugs (not doping) used in Sports Medicine.
2. Dietetic or nutritional supplements. Energy drinks.
3. Pharmacology of "doping"
a) Principles and regulations of the anti-doping control
b) Analytical methodology
c) Results of anti-doping control
d) Interference of drugs in the analytical examination
e) Doping substances - List of prohibited substances.
f) Substances in the monitoring program
4. Therapeutic Use Exemptions.

Head Lecturer(s)

Natália Sofia Claúdio António

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Exam: 80.0%

Bibliography

1) Pharmacology, Doping and Sports, Ed. by Jean L. Fourcroy, Routledge/Taylor Francis
2) Sport and Exercise Pharmacology, Stan Reents, Human Kinetics, Portland, USA
3) Drugs & Performance in Sports, edited by Richard H. Strauss WB Saunders Company.
4) Drugs, Athletes and Physical Performance, edited by J A Thomas, Plenum Publications Co.
5) www.idp.pt
6) www.acsm.org
7) Texts. Slides.