*Note
on course proficiencies*
YEAR 4
SEMESTER 1 - 2 - 3
Drug Information
PHAR 5691
Course Description:
A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional practice
setting dealing with drug information services.
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. Discuss the importance of obtaining patient-specific
information when accepting a drug information request.
2. Determine whether the primary, secondary, or tertiary literature
should be searched to formulate an answer to a drug information
question.
3. Use the printed or electronic databases of the National Library
of Medicine (i.e. Index Medicus, MEDLARS, etc.) to perform a comprehensive
search of the medical or pharmacy literature to obtain a bibliography
of primary literature articles for evaluating in answering a drug
information question.
4. Retrieve information from common drug information databases
(i.e. Micromedex, etc.).
5. Retrieve, analyze, and interpret the professional, lay, and
scientific literature to provide drug information to patients,
caregivers, health professionals, and the public.
6. Use Science Citation Index to find citations of articles published
later than a specific article.
7. Explain the importance of using an evidenced-based approach
in evaluating the literature and providing drug information.
8. Explain the role, sources, and development of clinical guidelines
and consensus reports for the treatment of specific diseases.
9. Evaluate a pharmacotherapy clinical study for appropriate research
and statistical methodology to determine the validity of results,
conclusions and clinical applicability.
10. Comprehensively search and critically evaluate the literature
to recommend the best treatment, when a therapeutic controversy
exists.
11. Provide concise, applicable, and timely responses to drug
information requests from health care providers and patients.
12. Present drug information in a manner that promotes rational
drug therapy.
13. Reference citations in the medical or pharmacy literature
in the format required by Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals.
14. Develop a system for documentation of answers to drug information
requests.
15. Develop a quality assurance program to assure that all pharmacists
in an institution, or drug information center are providing accurate,
reliable, and evidenced based information.
16. Develop a personal filing system for maintaining important
literature relevant to one’s practice and continual self-learning.
17. Perform a drug usage evaluation (DUE).
18. Review a drug class, or group of drugs used to treat a disease,
to select the best product for inclusion in an institution’s formulary.
19. Identify the appropriate agencies or organizations for reporting
an adverse drug reaction.
20. Discuss the function and role of drug information centers
and poison control centers.
