Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences
Learning Methods
Online
Seminar
Workshop
Module Offerings
7202CPPHAR-MAR-CTY
7202CPPHAR-SEP-CTY
Aims
This module aims to develop students’ ability to optimise medicines for individual patients (including those with multi-morbidity) by updating their knowledge of clinical therapeutics and skills in its application in real life practice.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Assess the impact of multi-morbidity on medicines use in individual patients
2.
Choose (or make recommendations on), the most appropriate treatment(s) for commonly encountered long-term conditions by applying their knowledge of pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, published evidence and guidelines
3.
Critique patients’ medication regimes to identify examples of inappropriate polypharmacy and recommend safe strategies for de-prescribing
4.
Develop robust and realistic plans for the on-going management of long-term conditions when patients transfer between care settings
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:• Definitions of medicines optimisation
• Impact of multi-morbidity on medicines use
• Polypharmacy and de-prescribing
• Preventing or minimising adverse drug reactions
• High risk drugs
• Transfer of care
• Medicines use in the elderly
• Management of commonly encountered long-term conditions – the emphasis on individual conditions may change each year depending on emerging evidence and changes to national guidelines. The priority therapeutic areas will normally be:
: Cardiovascular disease – e.g. hypertension, stable angina
: Obesity
: Type 1 and type 2 diabetes
: Pain and musculoskeletal disorders – e.g. osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and gout
: Mental health – e.g. dementia, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder
: Living with cancer
: Chronic kidney disease
: Gastrointestinal disorders – e.g. GORD
: Parkinson's disease
: Epilepsy
Module Overview:
This module aims to develop students’ ability to optimise medicines for individual patients (including those with multi-morbidity) by updating their knowledge of clinical therapeutics and skills in its application in real-life practice.
This module aims to develop students’ ability to optimise medicines for individual patients (including those with multi-morbidity) by updating their knowledge of clinical therapeutics and skills in its application in real-life practice.
Additional Information:The majority of this module involves work-based training under the guidance of a Practice-based tutor (PBT), following a prescribed schedule. The student and PBT are also supported by the Clinical Liaison Tutor team.