Decent and straightforward unit overall. Lecturers and UCs were all very responsive to emails. No assessments other than 3 MCQ tests (which were easy to do well on as long as you study) and a 55% final exam. The final exam was honestly a slog as it was all SAQs, and it was also somewhat time pressured, but overall not too difficult. I didn't find any of the content particularly difficult aside from the protein lectures by Emily Golden. Those lectures are difficult to decipher and I had to paste heaps of slides into ChatGPT to try and piece together their meaning (and honestly never really understood it well).

This is a very doable unit. The quality of teaching varied a lot - most of it was fine, a lot was mediocre at best, Emily's protein lectures were practically impossible to understand. The unit is also content heavy but made up for it with the fact that the final exam (all SAQs) was mostly resoanable and asked decently general concepts instead of the super specifics. The 3 summatives were MCQs and asked for very specific details, but were still pretty easy to get 85+ for on the whole. DO NOT fall behind on this unit as it's quite content heavy and difficult to catch up on. One thing that was annoying is that 7/30 lectures had issues with the uploading. Some content was dry and useless compared to the other phar units, but the UCs are super friendly. Steve and Sai are nice fellows. Steve is one of the nicest guys I've met, but he has no idea what is going on most of the time. For one of the lectures he showed up on the wrong time and performed an entire lecture to an empty room at the wrong time so it wasn't reccorded which meant he had to record the lecture again from home later. Sai is the one managing most of the things in the unit and the one who knows what's going on. Both of them are very pleasant and lovely folks. They are very open to discussion and answering questions. I would definitely not take it as an elective, but as a core unit, it could be so much worse than it is; that is to say, they did a pretty good job. There is no practice material provided for the summatives but the practice exam for the final was very useful and representitive. Even tho I found the content boring and some of the teaching poor, this is a pretty good unit, especially considering what other lvl 3 core units are like.

Really good! So interesting and rewarding. Recommend for anyone in their final years who wants anything to do with med/dent. Tests are easy and so is the exam. Fiona really knows how to structure a unit.

I really enjoyed this unit! Fiona (unit coordinator) does an excellent job of both coordinating and lecturing multiple topics within the unit, with great presentation style and each lecture structured around a core concept. In general, the various lecturers are deserving of praise as they have clear content with defined learning intentions. Sometimes though lectures are saturated with information, making it hard to determine what is superfluous. The 3x MCQ assessments were a great way to keep on top of lecture content, and complemented the accompanying PHAR3311 unit. Pharmacology is a great major, and in general the information contained within each unit proves useful for a multitude of future careers.