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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Aleksandra Bule
Study type:Full time
Target audience:Clinical Pharmacy
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine

Objective

1. Become familiar with drug use in hospital, data presenting opportunities (DDD/1000 bed days).
Give deeper understanding of topics about safe and rational drug use in hospital setting, drug dosing, also in special patient groups, for patients with organ failure, as well about therapeutic drug monitoring opportunities and main principles.
2. Improve student skills in pharmacotherapeutic problem identification (e.g. drug side effects and drug interactions), documentation and resolving.

Prerequisites

Clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Describe common pharmacotherapy problems and basic principles of drug dosage adjustment.

Skills

Analyze clinical cases and identify pharmacotherapy problems.

Competence

Independently analyze clinical cases, interpret real and potential pharmacotherapy problems and present a possible plan for solving these problems.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Clinical Pharmacy, FFMp1Master’sLimited choiceAlīna Kriviņa, Aleksandra Bule
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Clinical Pharmacy, FFMpz1Master’sLimited choice