Pharmacy Annual Curriculum- Fifth/Final Prof.

Fifth/ Final Professional Year Curriculum

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PHARMACY PRACTICE-V (CLINICAL PHARMACY-II)    THEORY   Marks: 100 

1. RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS: Rational Prescribing, Rational Dispensing, Problems of Irrational Drug Use, Learning about drug use problem, Sampling to study drug use, Indicators of drug use.

2. INTRODUCTION TO ESSENTIAL DRUGS: Criteria for selection, Usage and Advantages. Development of EDL.

3. DRUG UTILZATION EVALUATION & DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW (DUE/DUR): Development of protocol of use of few very low therapeutic indexes drug groups like Steroids, Vancomycin and Cimetidine.

4. CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETICS: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Digoxin, Theophylline, Gentamycin, Lithium, Phenytoin, Carbamazepine, Phenobarbitone, Valproic Acid, Cyclosporin and Vancomycin.

5. PHARMACEUTICAL CARE, ITS SCOPE, MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION OF CARE PLAN:

6. CLINICAL THERAPEUTICS: General Strategy: Terminology of Disease. Management and Treatment. Drug Selection.7. CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY:(a) General information. Role of pharmacist in treatment of poisoning and general management of poisoning & over dosage. Role and Status of Poison Control Centre.(b) Antidotes and their mechanism of action.

8. SAFE INTRAVENOUS THERAPY & HAZARDS OF IV THERAPY 9. NON-COMPLIANCE: Definition, introduction and importance, Extent of non-compliance, Methods of assessment, Reasons for non-compliance, Strategies for improving compliance.10. DISEASE MANAGEMENT:• Unit V: Central nervous system unit (Stroke, Epilepsy, Psychosis)• Unit VI: Infectious diseases (Meningitis, tuberculosis, dermatological infections, Rabies, Urinary tract infection, Malaria fever, Typhoid fever, Fungal infections of skin, AIDS, Dengue fever, Common Cold, Pharyngitis & Tonsillitis, Conjunctivitis)• Unit VII: Endocrinology Unit (Diabetes Mellitus, Hyper/Hypothyroidism, pituitary gland non-malignant disorders)• Unit VIII: Oncology Unit (Types of tumors, Brief introduction to oncological diseases e.g.  prostate cancer, breast cancer, lungs cancer)• Unit IX: Nephrology Unit (Renal failure, nephrotic syndrome)• Unit X: Hematology Unit (Bleeding disorders/coagulopathies/clotting disorders e.g. thrombocytopenia, hemophilia, Vit. K deficiency, Anemia).

PHARMACY PRACTICE-V (CLINICAL PHARMACY-II)    PRACTICAL   Marks:100    

• Clerkship in the Clinical Setting. A project Related to Clinical Pharmacy Practices will be completed by the students and will be evaluated by the external examiner.
• Student are required to take/present verbal presentation, communication, written and problem-solving skills, critical analysis of data and provision of care through a weekly conference and projects

PHARMACY PRACTICE-VI (FORENSIC PHARMACY)     THEORY   Marks:100 

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION: Forensic Pharmacy & Forensic Pharmacist, History of Drug Legislation and Pharmacy Profession in Pakistan, National Health Policy, National Drug Policy, Essential Drugs, Prescription handling at Retail level and Record keeping, Drug Control Administration at Federal and Provincial level.

2. ROLE OF FORENSIC PHARMACIST: Forensic drug Measurement, Post-mortem redistribution (PMR), Medication errors, prescription forgery, product tampering, Insurance fraud, use of drugs or alcohol in car accidents or violent actions, Legal and illegal pharmaceutical evidence in criminal investigations, use of abused drugs in the workplace, professional malpractice, quackery and health care fraud.

3. PHARMACEUTICAL ETHICS: Patents and Generics, Ethics in Sale, Ethics in Industry, Ethics in Research.

4. STUDY OF DRUG LAWS: 

a. The Drugs Act 1976 and rules framed there under.

b. Provincial Drug Rules (Respective Drug Rules will be taught in the relevant province). 

c. Advertisement rules.

d. Other Related rules and Legal aspects.

5. THE PHARMACY ACT 1967:

6. CONTROL OF NARCOTICS SUBSTANCES ACT 1997: Laws relating to Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

7. THE POISONS ACT 1919:

8. THE FACTORIES ACT 934:

9. SHOPS AND ESTABLISHMENTS ORDINANCE 1969 WITH RULES:

PHARMACEUTICS-VII (PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT & MARKETING) Theory Marks:100

1. MANAGEMENT & MARKETING:

a. Nature and Principles of Management:

b. Types and Functions of Managers:

c. Planning: Purpose and types of Planning, Steps in Planning

d. Organizing:

e. Management Control Systems: Purpose, Steps in the Control Process, Forms of operations control. Requirements for adequate control, Critical control points and standards.

f. Motivation:

g. Innovation and Creativity:

h. Principals of Marketing:

i. Product Management:

j. Marketing Research:

2. PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Material Management, Planning of production, Batch record maintenance.

3. MARKETING MANAGEMENT:

a. Ethical consideration of Pharmaceutical Marketing

b. Difference between Pharmaceutical Marketing and Consumer Marketing

c. Major stakeholders within pharmaceutical market environment.

d. Marketing Research (Process and Methodology)

e. Market Analysis Techniques 3Cs (Customer analysis, Company analysis, competitors analysis)

f. Evaluating the marketing performance (audit tools and audit process)

g. Designing sales force structure, sales force size and sales quota

h. Marketing channels, Promotion and Advertising and Salesmanship.

4. SALES MANAGEMENT: Personnel, Buying, Receiving, Pricing, Sales promotion and Customer Services.

5. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT: General principles, strategies, short- and long-term planning and objectives.

6. BUSINESS COMMUNICATION:  Importance and benefits of business communication, components of communication, concept and problems of communication, 7C’s of communications.

7. STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND GLOBAL MEETINGS: Background information on groups, purpose and kinds of meetings, solving problems in meetings, leadership responsibilities in meetings, participant’s responsibilities in meetings.