The Department of Pharmacology at SVMCH & RI, is involved in teaching Pharmacology to undergraduate MBBS students. The mission of Pharmacology is to provide quality in preclinical and clinical education in pharmacology and therapeutics for the medical students. It helps in to educate and train graduate, to carry out basic research of recognized excellence. Pharmacology is mainly concerned with all aspects of the action of drugs, its chemicals properties and reaction on living systems. Understanding the mechanism of drug interaction with body helps to develop new drugs for the treatment and diagnosis of human diseases. The discipline of pharmacology explores biology through the actions of drugs and chemical substances. Drugs and chemicals produce their effects only through modifications of underlying biological systems; their actions are useful in regulating not only normal functions of cells and organisms but also the abnormal processes which occur in disease.

Pharmacology department aims to inculcate a rational and scientific basis of therapeutics in undergraduate training.

The department adapts modern teaching methods like computer assisted learning (CAL), simulated learning (mannequins) etc.,