PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS – PRACTICAL

Course Code: ER20-24P

25 Hours (1 Hour/week)

Scope: This course is designed to train the students in the basic skills required to support the pharmaceutical care services for selected common disease conditions.

Course Objectives: This course will train the students on

1. How to prepare a SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan) note for clinical cases of selected common diseases

2. Patient counselling techniques/methods for common disease conditions

Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to

1. Write SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan) notes for the given clinical cases of selected common diseases

2. Counsel the patients about the disease conditions, uses of drugs, methods of handling and administration of drugs, life-style modifications, and monitoring parameters.

Practicals

I. Preparation and discussion of SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan) notes for at least SIX clinical cases (real / hypothetical) of the following disease conditions.

1. Hypertension

2. Angina Pectoris

3. Myocardial Infarction

4. Hyperlipidaemia

5. Rheumatoid arthritis

6. Asthma

7. COPD

8. Diabetes

9. Epilepsy

10. Stroke

11. Depression

12. Tuberculosis

13. Anemia (any one type as covered in theory)

14. Viral infection (any one type as covered in theory)

15. Dermatological conditions (any one condition as covered in theory)

II. Patient counselling exercises using role plays based on the real / hypothetical clinical case scenarios. The students are expected to provide counselling on disease condition, medications, life-style modifications, monitoring parameters, etc. and the same shall be documented. (Minimum 5 cases)

III. Simulated cases to enable dose calculation of selected drugs in paediatrics, and geriatrics under various pathological conditions. (Minimum 4 cases)