Introduction to clinical pharmacy
[HOPI2102]
[45h] 4 credits
Teacher(s): Louise Mallet, Anne Spinewine, Pierre Wallemacq, Léon Wilmotte(coord.)
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- for individual patients, to apply all steps of the pharmaceutical care process;
- to explain the main components of evidence-based medicine, to efficiently collect medicines information, and to critically appraise information of medicines;
- use laboratory test to optimise drug therapy;
- to describe the principles for the optimisation of the enteral and parenteral administration of drugs.
Main themes
- Searching for medicines information, evidence-based medicine, and critical appraisal of the literature
- Interpretation of lab tests in relation to diseases, and to prescribed drugs
- Clinical pharmacokinetics - therapeutic drug monitoring
- Management of difficulties associated to enteral and parenteral administration of medicines
Content and teaching methods
- Pharmaceutical care process
- Searching for medicines information (including electronic resources)
- Evidence-based medicine : main principles, and critical appraisal of the literature.
- Lab tests (biochemistry, liver and renal function, microbiology, blood tests)
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Enteral and parenteral administration of medicines
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)