范德比尔特大学药理科学培训有几个相互关联的目标。在科学水平上，我们力求提供一门教学课程，以确保每位学生都了解药理学和相关生理学的核心知识，包括对药物作用的分子，细胞和综合理解，受体理论，药物代谢途径，药代动力学和合理的药物设计。
Training in Pharmacological Sciences at Vanderbilt University pursues several inter-related goals. At the scientific level, we seek to provide a didactic curriculum that assures that each student has an understanding of the core knowledge in pharmacology, including the molecular, cellular, and integrated understanding of drug action, receptor theory, pathways of drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, and rational drug design.<br><br>Additional goals in our training program are to:<br><br>show, by example, how to construct a rational hypothesis,<br>teach, by example, how to apply the scientific method to test a hypothesis,<br>provide a basic understanding of a broad range of techniques,<br>provide more in-depth training in those techniques that are particularly germane to a chosen research area of each student,<br>teach how to communicate effectively research findings to the scientific community, and<br>instill a scientific ethic and respect for the pursuit of knowledge.<br> <br>Other aspirations of the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program are:<br>to foster the ability of students to learn how to learn on their own for the rest of their lives, a skill critical for continued excellence in scientific inquiry,<br>to free students from the fear of failure, and<br>to impart to students an appreciation for diversity.