Module Title
Clinical Skills for Chronic Diseases
Keywords
evidence based therapeutics, patient and drug factors influencing medicine selection, monitoring, communication, consultation models, care plans, service development. |
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Prerequisites for Module
An undergraduate degree in pharmacy or overseas equivalent AND completion of the NHS Education (Scotland) Core Course packs for Chronic Diseases (CHD, heart failure, HT, chronic pain, COPD, palliative care, RA, depression or diabetes) or in consultation with course leader.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To develop professional competence in the selected therapeutic area and provide students with the ability to provide medication review services for chronic diseases.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Use a systematic approach to retrieve medicines and patient information from a wide variety of sources and use this information to synthesise care plans.
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Apply detailed knowledge of pathophysiology, clinical pharmacology and evidence based therapeutics for the review of patients with chronic diseases.
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Communicate effectively with healthcare professionals, pharmacy staff and patients in care planning and reflect on practice.
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Retrieve, evaluate, manipulate, interpret and present data and information associated with the development of medication review services for chronic diseases.
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Indicative Module Content
Pathophysiology, evidence based therapeutics and clinical pharmacology of drugs used in the therapeutic area of choice.
Use of patient data, including physiological, biochemical and heamatological parameters, to select and monitor drug therapy for medical conditions.
Pharmaceutical care plan - systematic synthesis, documentation, implementation.
| Professional relationships and communication with other healthcare providers, patients and pharmacy staff. Models of consultation.
Interpret and present data and information from various sources that relates to pharmacy service development.
Indicative Student Workload
Directed Study
| Distance Learning | Directed Reading
| 20 | Assessment
| 5 | Self-Assessment exercises
| 10 |
Private Study
| | Private study
| 15 |
Mode of Delivery
This module is delivered in online distance learning mode by self-directed learning including self-assessment questions with feedback. In addition, support is provided from academic staff and specialist practitioner e-tutors.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Component 1 | 1,2,3
| | Component 2 | 4
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Component 2. This component will require students to write a service specification for the development of a chronic medication service for a patient group.
Component 1. This component will require students to synthesise a care plan for an individual patient and reflect on their practice.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. British National Formulary. Current edition. London: BMJ Publishing Group.
| | 2. | Longmore, J., 2005. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
| | 3. | Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. Christopher Haslett (Editor), Edwin Chilvers (Editor), Nicholas Boon (Editor), Nicki Colledge (Editor), John Hunter (Editor), Churchill Livingstone, current edition; ISBN: 0443070350.
| | 4. | Other resources provided within each topic of the module.
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