*Note
on course proficiencies*
YEAR 4
SEMESTER 1 - 2 - 3
Family Medicine
PHAR 5684
Course Description:
Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience in a family practice
setting.
Cr. 6. (0-18)
Prerequisite:
Fourth year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of
the instructor.
Course Proficiencies:
The student will be able to:
1. Assume personal responsibility for attaining
excellence in one’s own ability to provide primary care.
2. Educate patients in an effort to prevent therapeutic problems
in the primary care setting.
3. Identifying and resolve therapeutic problems in the primary
care setting.
4. Generate a chronologically based medication history that includes
OTC drugs, prescription drugs, natural products, herbal remedies,
and dietary supplements.
5. Perform a focused physical examination to monitor a patient’s
response to drug therapy and absence of adverse effects.
6. Organize patient data into a format that facilitates making
clinical decisions.
7. Recommend pharmacotherapy for common acute illnesses.
8. Recommend pharmacotherapy for chronic diseases treated in a
family practice clinic.
9. Assume responsibility for monitoring patients and judge the
continued effectiveness of their therapeutic plan in achieving
optimal therapeutic outcomes.
10. Determine the extent to which patients adhere to therapeutic
plans.
11. Use effective strategies that promote preventive health care
behaviors in patients.
12. Demonstrate an understanding of how a family medicine clinic
is operated (e.g., scheduling clinic appointments, patient waiting
time, medical record retrieval, clinic assessment and examinations,
prescribing medications, system for refilling medications, chart
documentation, charging fee-for-service)
13. Provide proper instruction for return appointment or referral
to assure continuity of care.
14. Explain when and why consultations are sought, and how consultants
and consultative services are chosen.
15. Provide patient-care services in an inter-disciplinary setting.
16. Demonstrate understanding of appropriate communication among
providers, consultants and patients.
17. Using cultural sensitivity, counsel patients on medications
and chronic disease management.
18. Present patient cases and therapeutic recommendations to physicians
and other healthcare providers.
19. Complete an evidence-based pharmacotherapy case report ready
for publication.
20. Design a collaborative practice agreement for pharmacist management
of drug therapy.
