| CODE | CPH5400 | ||||||
| TITLE | Rational Prescribing | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 3 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will provide an excellent basis for family medicine specialists to update their knowledge on therapeutic prescribing in situations which are commonly found in Family Medicine. The participants will be expected to apply the knowledge thus obtained for the prescribing for individuals and population groups in order to enhance skills in rational prescribing. Study-unit aims: The study-unit will look at: - Principles of Therapeutic Prescribing. - Therapeutic goals and cost-effective prescribing. - concepts in adverse drug reactions - evidence Based Prescribing. How to get useful information about drugs. - EU and WHO regulatory Frameworks. - inter-patient Variability + Pharmacogenetics. - practice/National Formularies, Safe Prescribing. - inter-professional Relationship between the Community Pharmacist and the Family Doctor. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of this study unit, the student will be able to: - Understand legislation with respect to drug prescribing, and in the EU and WHO context - Establish individualized therapeutic goals and evaluate therapeutic outcomes - Practice cost-effective pharmacotherapy and understand evidence based prescribing 2. Skills By the end of this study unit, the student will be able to: - Recognize, avoid, and manage adverse drug reactions - Prescribe based on considerations in various populations (pediatrics, geriatrics, obstetrics) - Understanding the process of developing an individual and institutional formulary - Work effectively and ethically with other health care professionals Main Texts - Jones, Oliver The hands-on guide to practical prescribing / Oliver Jones, Nandan Gautam. Blackwell, 2004. (in library) - Amanda Scoggins, Jan Tiessen, Tom Ling, Lila Rabinovich Prescribing in primary care - Understanding what shapes GPs' prescribing choices and how might these be improved by http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR443.html - BMA. INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE ON PRESCRIBING IN GENERAL PRACTICE Guidance for GPs www.lmc.org.uk/downloadfile.aspx?path=/.../prescribing0904.pdf |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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