Aims

To allow the pharmacist of dispensary to include/understand the clinical signs and symptoms associated with frequent pathologies, and to recognize the benignity or gravity of it (requiring or not a medical opinion, allowing a simple council or the delivery of a medication of counter). They are complaints expressed by the patient with the counter of dispensary. Relate to adult pathologies (22 hours) and paediatric (8 hours)

Main themes

Complaints expressed by patients with the counter of the dispensary, with regard to them or concerning a close relation (child, nobody old...) Great fields of medicine and pediatry such as the sectors digestive, respiraotires, cutaneous, neurological.

Content and teaching methods

Course structured at the beginning of an analysis of signs and described symptoms to the counter of the dispensary (signs chosen with a pharmacist of city and countryside). A clinical step in some very concrete stages is proposed to appreciate as well as possible grivté of the complaint; the most frequent etiologies are given. As an example, the course examines the great clinical symptoms in relation to the complaints digestive (constipation, diarrhoeas...), respiratory (cough, evils of throat...), cutaneous (lesions visible with the counter), neurological (cephalgias, insomnia...), general state (loss and catch of weight, tire, fever...)... During seminars, of the concrete cases, practise are discussed.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pré-requis : cours de pathologie médicale
Evaluation : dix cas pratiques, tels que vus en officine. Examen écrit.
Support : syllabus, diapositives illustratives au cours.-

Pre-necessary: run of medical pathology Evaluation: ten practical cases, as seen in dispensary. Written examination. Support: syllabus, illustrative slides with the course. -