A pharmacologist＇s journey in medical education:a personal history

• 来源期刊: 中国药理学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2004,（9）
• 页码范围: 1204-1208
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

My journey as an educator in Pharmacology began in 1949, when, after finishing my MA in Biology at Johns Hopkins, I decided that I wanted to be involved in science with more relevance to humans. I had been chasing fireflies around the parks of Baltimore and measuring luminescence in bacteria for my Master's work,but found it not very satisfying. I hoped that Pharmacology would provide a discipline with relevance to human welfare because of its role on study of drug actions and therapeutics and with many possibilities in basic science because of the need to know how drugs act and their availability to define physiology and pathophysiology by intervention in function. In retrospect,this hope has proved correct, at least from my viewpoint and that explains why I am still doing pharmacology teaching and research 54 years on.