Clinical Pharmacy

Recommended Prerequisites

Human anatomophysiology, Clinical Biochemistry, Human Physiopathology, Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy.

Teaching Methods

The teaching will be carried out through lectures of matter, trying to give a great comprehension to the subjects developed. In the theoretical-practical component, theoretical contents will be applied to the resolution of clinical cases.

Learning Outcomes

Knowing that Clinical Pharmacy is defined as that area of Pharmacy concerned with the rational medication use, this curricular unit aims to prepare pharmacists to integrate a health care team, playing its unique role in taking patient care, particularly by improving medicines-related health outcomes for individual patients.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theoretical component: Clinical Pharmacy as a field of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The clinical method. Pharmacotherapy and the patient’s health. The issue of polipharmacy and adherence to therapy. Clinical pharmacists services (medication reconciliation, medication review, pharmacotherapy follow-up). Special issues in pharmacotherapy: children, pregnant women and elderly. Individualization of therapy (dose adjustment in renal and liver failure, clinical pharmacokinetics). Intervention of the clinical pharmacist at different levels of health care (primary care, intermediate care, acute care).

Theoretical – practical component: consolidation of knowledge in the theoretical component by solving clinical cases.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Margarida Coutinho de Seabra Castel-Branco Caetano

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 25.0%
Exam: 75.0%

Bibliography

Alldredge, Brian K. et al. (Eds.) – Koda-Kimble and Young’s Applied Therapeutics: the Clinical Use of Drugs. 10th International Edition. Philadelphia, USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Wolters Kluwer Health, 2013. ISBN: 9781451175769.

Walker, Roger & Whittlesea, Cate (Eds.) – Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 5th Revised Edition. London, UK: Churchill Livingstone, 2012. ISBN: 9780702042935.

Herrera Carranza, Joaquin – Manual de Farmácia Clínica Y Atención Farmacéutica. Madrid, Espanha: Elsevier España, 2006. ISBN 8481746584.