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ReviewPharmacology research & perspectives2025

Reflections on the Core Concepts of Physiology and Pharmacology.

Joel Michael, Paul J White

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Review in Pharmacology research & perspectives, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Editorial: Pharmacology Education Special Issue.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2026
    Article
  3. Reflections on the Core Concepts of Physiology and Pharmacology.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2025
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joel MichaelDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Paul J WhiteFaculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7524-1808

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Core concepts are "big ideas" that can play a number of roles in helping students master a particular discipline: (1) they may define the important content of a discipline, (2) serve as tools to help students gain a better understanding of the discipline, and (3) facilitate transfer of learning between topics in the discipline. The core concepts of Physiology and of Pharmacology have been defined, and their deployment as part of Physiology and Pharmacology pedagogy is well underway. Here we compare and contrast the core concepts of these two disciplines and suggest lessons that have been learned that might assist other disciplines in deploying core concepts in their discipline.

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PharmacologyPhysiologyCurriculumHumansLearningcore conceptspharmacology educationphysiology education

Identifiers

PMID40620189
PMCPMC12230504

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