Digital pharmacology: development of an application as educational tool to the pharmacology field

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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i4.27804

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Education. ; Psychology; Application; Learning; Pharmacology.

Abstract

Devices such as smartphones, tablets and e-book readers connect users to the world immediately, increasing information accessibility. Accordingly, mobile technologies to teach and learn has grown in education. In this context, many universities worldwide have started using smartphones to promote learning and disseminate information. In order to support technological resources for transmission of content, psychology through theories of learning investigates since last century possible contributions brought by machines into learning process. Based on gamified systems and Skinner's radical behaviorism, using technological resources available, an educational software was developed on Android platform to access contents in the pharmacology field. The software was published on Google Play attaching a database with 310 questions and 810 images, as well as PDF files. Bringing gamified dynamics that involve drug’s questions and images, this application may be used, above all, to support traditional theoretical classes.

Author Biography

Denis de Melo Soares, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Possui graduação em Farmácia e Bioquímica pela Universidade de São Paulo (2001), mestrado (2004) e doutorado em Farmacologia pela Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (2008). Fez pós-doutorado na Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas com estágio no Instituto de Fisiologia da Faculdade de Veterinária da Universidade Justus Liebeg de Giessen-Alemanha (2009-2011). Atualmente é professor adjunto da Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Foi bolsista de produtividade nível 2 do CNPq até 2019. Faz parte do quadro permanente de docentes do curso de pós-graduação em imunologia do Instituto de Ciências da Saúde da UFBA. Coordenou o Programa de Pós Graduação em Farmácia da UFBA nos anos de 2019 e 2020. Atuou como Vice-Diretor da Faculdade de Farmácia da UFBA entre 2017 e 2021. É o atual Diretor desta Unidade. Tem experiência na área de Farmácia e Medicina, com ênfase em Farmacologia da Inflamação, Sepse e Febre.

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LIMA, G. S.; SOARES, D. de M. . Digital pharmacology: development of an application as educational tool to the pharmacology field. Research, Society and Development, [S. l.], v. 11, n. 4, p. e56311427804, 2022. DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v11i4.27804. Disponível em: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/27804. Acesso em: 20 apr. 2024.

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Vol. 11 No. 4

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