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YEAR I
SEMESTER II
PHARMACY PRACTICE II
PHAR 4271
Course Description:
This course teaches the student to analyze and record drug information
requests; identify, select and evaluate pharmaceutical and medical
literature; and prepare drug information responses.
Prerequisite: MATH
2311, Introduction to Statistical Analysis, PHAR 4270, Pharmacy
Practice I.
Course Proficiencies:
The student will be able to:
Part I: Drug Information
- Describe a knowledge and awareness of the
functions of drug information services by being able to describe
the role of the pharmacist as a drug information specialist.
- Apply a systematic approach to answer
actual drug information requests.
- Employ skills for receiving and classifying
drug information requests in a logical order.
- Depict an awareness and familiarity with
available resources and their appropriate use by being able
to:
a. define and describe the terms tertiary, secondary, and primary
reference sources;
b. identify by title and author or editor, tertiary, secondary,
and primary reference sources;
c. identify the use of each reference source and the type of
information available from each source.
- Conduct a thorough, systematic search of
the literature by identifying a logical sequence for initiating
and completing a search.
- Identify the limitations of tertiary and
secondary references by describing the following factors: time,
authors, references, footnoting, type of information or scope
of coverage, accessibility and use of information, edition or
updating frequency.
- Explain the use of textbooks, the use of
abstracts, the use of earlier literature, the use of the most
current literature, and the effect of an absence of data being
found in the literature, and what constitutes a "complete search."
- Portray an awareness of the practical
approaches to specific situations and problems in providing
drug information including common ethical problems arising in
a drug information practice.
- Discuss the use of non-literature information
sources such as specialists, agencies and drug manufacturers.
- Effectively communicate responses to drug
information requests both verbally and in writing to those
who requested such information.
- Record responses to drug information requests
using procedures that will document the provision of pharmaceutical
care.
- Conduct a literature search using indexing
and abstracting services.
- Conduct literature searches using electronic
databases including on-line systems and CD-ROM based systems.
Part II: Interpreting the Medical Literature
14. Describe the process for
approval of a new drug product in the United States.
15. Evaluate and interpret study design and methods, results,
and conclusions of primary drug literature.
Part III: Basic Biostatistics
16. Define and interpret basic
concepts of biostatistics including types of data, data distribution,
descriptive statistics and measures of variability.
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