Hello everyone, I am a 4th year pharmacy student tasked with giving a group of medical residents a presentation about CYP enzyme interactions. I am reaching out to see if anyone has any recommendations about potential topics to cover? I am not certain how much education the medical students receive on CYP enzymes overall and therefore don't know what would be beneficial to a group of medical residents.
I figured this would be a good place to start assessing what topics I should cover.
In pharmacy school, we are taught which isoforms of cytochrome P450 metabolize which drugs and therefore can identify interactions based on the route of metabolism. I don't want to grind through every particular interaction and put the residents to sleep presenting information that they would have to look up in a real-world setting anyway. I guess I am just stuck as to what direction to pursue and am looking for any recommendations that anyone here might have.
Topics I am thinking about covering include:
- General overview of some common inducers vs inhibitors
- Some of the more common, and specific genetic mutations occurring at CYP-2C9 (affects warfarin and phenytoin), CYP-2C19 (affects clopidogrel activation), CYP-2D6 (opioids mainly and some SSRIs)
- maybe some drug transporter polymorphisms which lead to affects on simvastatin and other statins.
- CPIC Guidelines - maybe just a general overview of the available guidelines?
- clinical application of available genetic tests
I should note that I have a 30 minute presentation time slot.
I am open to any and all ideas! Hopefully this will be a clinically useful presentation once I am done.
Thank you!
I figured this would be a good place to start assessing what topics I should cover.
In pharmacy school, we are taught which isoforms of cytochrome P450 metabolize which drugs and therefore can identify interactions based on the route of metabolism. I don't want to grind through every particular interaction and put the residents to sleep presenting information that they would have to look up in a real-world setting anyway. I guess I am just stuck as to what direction to pursue and am looking for any recommendations that anyone here might have.
Topics I am thinking about covering include:
- General overview of some common inducers vs inhibitors
- Some of the more common, and specific genetic mutations occurring at CYP-2C9 (affects warfarin and phenytoin), CYP-2C19 (affects clopidogrel activation), CYP-2D6 (opioids mainly and some SSRIs)
- maybe some drug transporter polymorphisms which lead to affects on simvastatin and other statins.
- CPIC Guidelines - maybe just a general overview of the available guidelines?
- clinical application of available genetic tests
I should note that I have a 30 minute presentation time slot.
I am open to any and all ideas! Hopefully this will be a clinically useful presentation once I am done.
Thank you!
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