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.
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.

Assessments

Centralised Exam

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