Mobile application to understand the effects of the drug on the human body

Developed in partnership by the LEEM - the drug companies -, the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports, and Canopé Network, Pharmacopédie (the future of drugs in the human body) is a mobile application for computers and tablets. It makes it possible to discover the fate of a drug once it is administered in the human body. It is for everyone. And it also responds to the SVT and physics-chemistry programs in general and technological high schools (STL, ST2S, STI2D) and professional education (ASSP, BP preparer in pharmacy) and can thus be used by teachers, students, apprentices , students. It will also be accompanied by sequences and educational sessions to be found on the ÉTINCEL platform: reseau-canope.fr/etincel/accueil

Pharmacopédie offers four different situations in which the user must relieve a patient's pain. From the clues given to him, he must determine the drug, its galenic form and its dosage for an effective prescription. After making their choices, the user virtually administers the drug and follows, using graphics and 2D and 3D visualizations of the organs, the path and transformation of the active ingredient in the body until it is eliminated. The experiment ends with a message indicating whether or not the choices were relevant.

Pharmacopédie presents two courses. The "path with help" offers definitions of concepts in the form of pop-ups, accessible by clicking on the keywords. It also spontaneously delivers scientific information throughout the visualization of the experiment. This information does not appear automatically in the "unaided course", and the definitions of the concepts are not accessible, which allows the teacher to manage the course of the session and the cognitive contributions himself.

This resource can be used as a contextualization to address the notion of mass concentration in physics-chemistry or SVT, or the question of the traceability of a substance in the body. It provides information on the basic notions in pharmacology for professional and post-baccalaureate pathways. And it can be used to deal with taking medication, for example, in the workplace.

The names of the drugs and the INNs (international nonproprietary names) of the active ingredients have been replaced by fictitious names. However, they evoke existing compounds so as to anchor the simulation in a plausible situation.

All the data used come from pharmacokinetic knowledge related to the substances concerned. In order to reinforce the educational aspect of the application, this data has been simplified.

An application designed and developed by 3Prime.