Clinical Pharmaceutical Services

Recommended Prerequisites

Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy and Clinical Pharmacy.

Teaching Methods

As aulas serão espaços de discussão onde a literatura publicada será analisada de forma a permitir a identificação das características intrínsecas a cada serviço farmacêutico em estudo. Com esta metodologia o estudante aprenderá a reconhecer as principais atividades que compõem o design dos serviços farmacêuticos centrados no doente e que podem influenciar diretamente o seu sucesso.

Learning Outcomes

Pharmaceutical care is a patient-centered philosophy of assistential practice in which the pharmacist, as a health care team member, has responsibilities in patient medication. This curricular unit aims to introduce the students in the last year of their training to the new pharmacist services that the clinical pharmacist can provide to population and draw attention to the urgent need to implement it in the current health care system for the benefit of all.

To do this, the student must develop skills that will allow a patient-centered approach, including communication, information retrieval, critical analysis, ethical behavior, teamwork and leadership, in addition to strong scientific expertise in pharmacology and pharmacotherapy. The new pharmacist will have to learn to systematize and to register its action in each type of service carried out. The main barrier that he will have to overcome will be his own mind.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Pharmacist services that monitor the process of the use of medicines from a preventive standpoint, identifying risk factors and acting within their constraints, and pharmacist services that monitor the outcomes from a reactive standpoint, identifying negative clinical outcomes and acting on their causes.

Identification and characterization of new pharmacist services patient-centered:

- new medicines service

- risk factors prevention and control

- adherence/compliance to therapy

- medication review

- pharmacotherapy follow-up

- medication reconciliation

- information about medicines

- pharmacist indication

- medication management

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Margarida Coutinho de Seabra Castel-Branco Caetano

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Resolution Problems: 50.0%

Bibliography

Castel-Branco M.M; Caramona M.M; Fernandez-Llimos F; Figueiredo I.V. Implementation needs for new pharmaceutical services focus on the patient. Acta Farmacêutica Portuguesa. (2013) 2:1; 15-20

Cipolle, R. J.; Strand, L. M.; Morley, P. C.  Pharmaceutical care practice: the clinician’s guide. 2nd edition. New York [etc.]: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2004.

Dader, M. J. F.; Muñoz, P. A.; Martínez-Martínez, F. Atenção Farmacêutica: conceitos, processos e casos práticos. 1ª edição. São Paulo: RCN Editora, 2008.

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

Winfield, A.; Richards, R. – Pharmaceutical Practice. 2nd ed. Edinburg: Churchill Livinsgtone, 1998.

Rovers JP, et al. A Practical Guide to Pharmaceutical Care. 2nd Edition. 2003, Washington, D.C., American Pharmaceutical Association.