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Course Name Pharmacotherapeutics-I Practical
Course Code PD.211P
Program Pharm. D.
Campus Kochi

Syllabus

Guidelines for practical

Students are required to collect cases from various departments of AIMS hospital and five cases per academic year should be presented including both sessional practicals in SOAP format and 15 cases should be included in record covering most common diseases which is dealt in the theory syllabus.

  • Student has to understand the changes in physiological functioning in the given disease condition of the patient.
  • Learn the normal values of laboratory parameters applicable to each
  • Explain the medication history and current drug therapy by direct patient interview
  • Able to interpret the variations in laboratory parameters and justify the reasons for
  • Explain the rationale about the changes in drug therapy & clinical outcome
  • Learn the PK/PD parameters of each drug in the treatment regimen and correlate it with clinical outcome of the patient.
  • Compare the current treatment regimen of the patients with the approved treatment guidelines

Assignments:

  1. Discuss the global impact of How do healthcare disparities, lifestyle factors, and access to treatment contribute to the prevalence of hypertension worldwide?
  2. List the strategies to minimize the risk of Drug induced renal disorders , including appropriate drug selection, dosing, and patient monitoring.
  3. Prepare an assignment on the role of Gene therapy in treating genetic
  4. Explain the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on the management of diabetes? Discuss how these technologies might improve early detection, treatment adherence, and monitoring of diabetes complications.
  5. Mention the potential applications of stem cells in IVF and reproductive medicine

Text Books / References

TEXT BOOKS:

  1. Joseph Dipiro et al. Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic approach. 10th edn. Mc Graw- Hill; 2017
  2. Roger Walker and Cate Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 5th edn. Churchill Livingstone publication; 2012
  3. Robbins and Pathologic basis of disease. 6th edn Philadelphia: Elsevier;2003
  4. Laurence L. Brunton, Randa Hilal-Dandan, Björn C. Knollmann. Goodman & Gilman’s: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 13th Mc Graw- Hill; 2018

REFERENCE BOOKS:

  1. Kodak-Kimble, Mary Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs. 11th ed. Philadelphia: LPWW;2009
  2. Eric T. Herfindal. Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 5th Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Publication;1992
  3. Lloyd Young and Koda-Kimble. Applied Therapeutics: The clinical Use of Drugs. 10th Wolters Kluwer: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2013
  4. Robbins and Pathologic basis of disease. 6th edn Philadelphia: Elsevier;2003
  5. Scott L. Traub. Basic skills in interpreting laboratory data. American Society of Health System Pharmacists; 1992

JOURNALS:

  1. Clinical pharmacology and Wiley-Blackwell
  2. Indian Journal of Medical Med know Publications
  3. American Journal of Wolters Kluwer

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