Syllabus · Current · V5 (2025) · Concepts in Pharmacology

B3 · Variability of Drug Response

B3.vii · Isomerism

Official V5 objective
Explain isomerism and its clinical importance with examples.
1 SAQ topic 1 SAQ appearance 0 VIVA stations

Written examination

SAQ history

1 appearance
Enantiomerism
1 exam appearance
What are drug enantiomers? (20% of marks). Explain the clinical relevance of enantiomerism (60% of marks). Give a clinically relevant example (20% of marks).
41%

Oral examination

VIVA history

0 stations

No mapped VIVA history for this objective.

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