Peer Teaching Assignment
 
 

1. Choose a category of medications that you would like to learn more about.
2. Using the information below, you will research the following criteria:

• Background – History of this ‘product category’.
• Economics – How much $ is spent on this ‘product category’ per year in US? Prescription & OTC
• Why should it be used? What are its benefits? What is its physiological action [s]? How exactly does it work?
• What are the active ingredients? What plant constituents were the active ingredients originally derived from? Compare/ Contrast the actions of the plant constituent to the synthetically derived chemical.
• Does it have any side effects? What are they?
• Contraindications for using this medication. Who should not take this category of medication? – What would be the ramifications?
• How is this medication administered? Indicate the different ways.

1. Each student will submit a short paper outlining findings and including an annotated bibliography. Each student must use at least 2 peer-reviewed journals, and no more than 2 websites.

• others in their group (May 6^th)
• small group of classmates who have researched a different medication category (May 13^th)