Pharmacotherapeutic Follow-up I

Recommended Prerequisites

Solid training in Cellular Biology, Biochemistry, Anatomophysiology, Physiopathology, Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy.

Teaching Methods

Develop strategies and dynamic procedures, in order to gain the students active participation, challenging them constantly to seek solutions to the problems. In this type of education, the teaching practice has defined goals that express different levels of competence, ie, the development of personal, interpersonal and instrumental competencies, as well as professional skill and dexterity.
After the theoretical integration, classes serve as practice sessions to solve clinical cases, by resorting to medication review or pharmacotherapy follow-up methodologies.

Learning Outcomes

To provide the student with skills on a continuous and integrated provision of health care to groups of chronically ill patients in order to improve the clinical, economic and humanistic. Check capabilities that enable optimization of information provided to the patient and encourage greater adherence to treatment strategies. The clinical pharmacist will have to develop new competencies in communication, information retrieval, critical analysis, ethical behavior, teamwork and leadership. The assistential pharmacist will have to learn to systematize and to register its action in each type of service carried out.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Evolution of concepts in Pharmaceutical Care.
Theoretical frameworks to support the decision-making process in Pharmaceutical Care.
Clinical pharmacist services: pharmaceutical services focused on the improvement of the process of use of medicines (medication review) and pharmaceutical services centered in the improvement of clinical, humanistic and economic outcomes (pharmacotherapy follow-up).
Developing methodologies formedication review and pharmacotherapy follow-up.
Guidelines for the interpretation of a clinical case.
Resolution of practical cases of systematic approach to clinical situations: cardiovascular disease, dyslipidaemia, depression, diabetes, osteoarticular disease and osteoporosis.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Margarida Coutinho de Seabra Castel-Branco Caetano

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

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.
Caramona, M.; Vitória, I; Teixeira, M.; Alcobia, A.; Almeida, P.; Horta, R.; Reis, L. – Normas de Orientação Terapêutica. Lisboa:
Dader, M.J.F.;Muñoz, P.A.; Martínez-Martínez, F. – Atenção Farmacêutica: conceitos, processos e casos práticos. 1ª ed. São Paulo: RCN Editora, 2008.
Fauci, A.;Braunwald, E.; Kasper, D.; Hauser, S.; Longo, D.; Jameson, J.; Loscalzo, J. – Harrison Medicina Interna. 17ª ed.McGrawHill, 2009.
Goodman & Gilman’s – The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 11th ed. New York [etc.]: McGraw-Hill. 2006.
Hatah, E. et al. – General practioners’ perceptions of pharmacists’ new services in New Zealand. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. 34:2 (2012) 364-373.