Course Leader: Oriana Awwad
Home Institution: The University of Jordan
Course pre-requisite(s): Pharmacology or Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge for the provision of patient-centered care and patient education. In addition, it aims to provide the students with the knowledge of medication safety and medication errors in the treatment of health disorders.
By the end of this course, students should be able to understand the basic concept of pharmacotherapy and clinical pharmacy, to use the available clinical practice guidelines and to generate patient education. In addition, students should be able to understand the concept beyond the rational drug use medication errors and recognize how to avoid them.
1) The patient care process
2) General guidelines for clinical pharmacy practice and level of evidence
3) Health Literacy and Medication Use
4) Medication Safety Principles and Practices: a focus on treatment-related problems
5) Patient education: a focus on asthma and COPD patient’s
Lectures and workshops and role-plays
Required Course Materials
DiPiro: Pharmacotherapy A Pathophysiologic Approach 12e
Exercises, Quizzes, Role-plays