Module Title
Prescribing And Public Health
Keywords
public health, pharmacovigilance, NHS and social policy, clinical governance, audit, evidence based practice |
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Prerequisites for Module
None in addition to course entry requirements or in consultation with the Course Leader.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To enable the student to integrate a sound knowledge of evidence based public health practice with prescribing policy and management.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Demonstrate a critical understanding of current issues relating to prescribing practice and public health.
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Apply the skills, concepts and knowledge of evidence based practice to prescribing in a professional/vocational context.
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Integrate skills, concepts and knowledge of public health to prescribing in professional/vocational practice.
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Indicative Module Content
Overview of public health (core elements of public health, pharmaceutical public health, evidence based practice, critical appraisal skills, clinical guidelines, protocols, policies, decision support systems and formularies, clinical governance, clinical audit, risk assessment, risk management, medication errors, ethics, pharmacovigilance.)
| Access to health and medicines. Use of medicines in populations. Inappropriate prescribing and inappropriate use of medicines. Duty to patients and society.
Indicative Student Workload
Directed Study
| Distance Learning | Assessments
| 3 | Directed reading
| 20 | Self-assessment exercises
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Private Study
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| 10 |
Mode of Delivery
The module is delivered in distance learning mode by self-directed learning from web based learning materials including self-assessment questions with feedback.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Component 1 | 1,2,3
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Component 1 will be an essay question.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | Resources provided within each topic of the module.
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Additional Notes
This 5 point module is derived from the 15 point module Evidence Based Practice & Clinical Governance PHM016 and together with the three modules PHM018 Medicines, Prescribers and People; PHM019 Care Planning; and PHM020 Therapeutics, comprise the 20 SCQF point rated university based element of the short course, Pharmacist Independent Prescribing.
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