Thursday, March 3, 2011

Fourth Professional, First Semester, Pharmaceutics

PHARMACEUTICS-VIII (Clinical Pharmacy-I)
(Theory)


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1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PHARMACY: Terminologies, Basic Components and Scope.

2. PATIENT PROFILE:

(a) Patient disease profile.

(b) Taking case History.

(c) Drug Profile of 25 Drugs (Adrenaline, Aminoglycosides, Anti TB Drugs, Antiepileptics, Atropine, Benzodiazepines, Cepahlosporins, Chlorpheniramine, Cimetidine, Digoxin, Dobutamine, Dopamine, Fluroquinolone, Frusemide, Lactulose, Macrolides, Metoclopramide, Morphine/Pethedine, Nifedipine, NSAIDS, ORS, Penicillins, Prednisolone, Salbutamol, Vancomycin)

3. CLINICAL TRIALS OF DRUG SUBSTANCES. Designing of clinical trials, Types of trials, Choice of patients, Exclusion of patients and Monitoring a clinical trial.

4. EMERGENCY TREATMENT.

PHARMACEUTICS-VIII (Clinical Pharmacy-I)
(Laboratory)

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Clerkship in the Clinical setting. A project related to Clinical Pharmacy Practices will be completed by the students and will be evaluated by the external examiner.

Recommended Books

1. Roger Walker, Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics,
2. Guard Paul, A Behavioral Approach to Pharmacy Practice, Black Well, USA, 2000.
3. Herfindal Gourley, Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics,
4. A J Winfield, Pharmaceutical Practice, Churchill Levingstone, London, 2nd Ed.,
5. Kavin Taylor, Pharmacy Practice, Taylor & Francis, New York, 1998.
6. Deborah Rosenbaun, Clinical Research Coordinator Hand Book,
7. Simon Cook, Clinical Studies Management, a Practical Guide to Success,
8. Joseph. T. Dipiro, Encyclopedia of Clinical Pharmacy.
9. Joseph T Dipiro, Encyclopedia of Pharmacy. Marcel Dekker Publishing 2002.
10. Mellainie J Rantucci, Pharmacist Talking with Patients.1997
11. Smith GDG and Aronson J K, Oxford Text Book of Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, Oxford Universotu Press, UK, 1990.
12. Hansten P and Horn J, Drug interactions. Lee & Febiger, Philadelphia, USA, 1989.

Fourth Professional, First Semester, Pharmaceutics

PHARMACEUTICS-VII (Hospital Pharmacy-I)
(Theory)


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1. INTRODUCTION

(a) Role of Pharmacist in Hospital.

(b) Minimum standards for pharmacies in Institutions/Hospitals.

(c) Research in Hospital Pharmacy.

2. HOSPITAL AND ITS ORGANIZATION

(a) Classification of Hospitals.

(b) Organizational Pattern.

(c) Administration.

(d) Clinical Departments.

(e) Nursing, Dietectic, Pathology, Blood Bank, Radiology and other supportive services etc.

(f) Role of Pharmacy in Hospital.

(g) Hospital Finances.

3. PHARMACY, ITS ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL

(a) Pharmacy specialist.

(b) Drug information Centre.

(c) Poison Control Centre and Antidote Bank.

(d) Pharmacy Education.

(e) Determining the need of Professional and other departmental staff.

(f) Professional services rendered.

4. PHARMACY AND THERAPEUTIC COMMITTEE.

5. THE HOSPITAL FORMULARY

(a) General Principles and guidelines to develop Formulary.

(b) Format.

(c) Preparation of the Formulary & Role of Pharmacist.

(d) Benefits and problems.

(e) Keeping up-to-date Formulary.

(f) Contraceptives.

6. DISPENSING TO INPATIENTS

(a) Methods of Dispensing & SOP’s.

(b) Unit dose dispensing.

(c) Other concepts of dispensing, Satellite Pharmacy etc.

7. DISPENSING TO AMBULATORY PATIENTS.

8. DISTRIBUTION OF CONTROL SUBSTANCES.

9. DISPENSING DURING OFF-HOURS.

10. SAFE USE OF MEDICATION IN THE HOSPITAL

(a) Medication error.

(b) Evaluation & Precautions of Medication Error.

(c) Role of Pharmacist in Controlling Medication Error.

Recommended Books

1. William Hassan, Hospital Pharmacy, Lee & Febiger, Washington, 5th Ed., 1986.
2. N I Bukhari, Hospital Pharmacy, Aziz Book Depot, Lahore-Pakistan, 2000.
3. Martin Stephen, Hospital Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Press, London, 2003.

Third Professional, Second Semester, Pharmaceutics

PHARMACEUTICS-IV (Community Pharmacy)
(Theory)


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1. DEFINITIONS AND BACKGROUND.

2. PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY PHARMACY: Epidemeology & its Control, Preventive Health (EPI & CDC), Family Planning and Health Policy & National Drug Policy.

3. PATIENT ASSESSMENT.

4. MEDICAL COMPLICATION OF DRUG TAKING: General and Socioeconomic Aspects.

5. PATIENT PHARMACIST COMMUNICATION.

6. PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNCELLING.

7. CONTROL OF DRUG ABUSE AND MISUSE.

8. ROLE OF PHARMACIST: As Public Health Educator in the Community for Drug Monitoring and Drug Information.

Recommended Books

1. Roy Robertson, Management of Drug Users in the Community: A Practical Handbook.
2. Remington’s Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mack Publishing Company, USA, 2001.
3. Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia.

Third Professional, Second Semester, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY-IV (Instrumentation)
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Note:- The topics will be taught with special reference to their Pharmaceutical Applications.

1. CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHODS: Column Chromatography, Thin Layer Chromatography, Gas Liquid Chromatography, HPLC and GCMS.

2. ELECTRO CHEMICAL METHODS: Potentiometry, Polarography and Radiochemical Techniques.

3. DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY.

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NOTE:- Practicals of the subject shall be designed from time to time on the basis of the above mentioned theoretical topics and availability of the requirements, e.g. Determination of the Purity and Composition of the unknown drugs by using at least each of the above techniques.

Recommended Books

1. Lough W J, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Blacki Academic Press, New York, 1996
2. William Kemp,Organic Spectroscopy, Ellsi Horwood, London, 1990. 3. M Aminuddin & Javed Iqbal, Theory and Practice of Chromatography, University Grants Commission, Islamabad-Pakistan (2000).
4. A H Beckett and J B Stennlake, Practical Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Part I and II, the aulton Press, London.
5. A M Knevel and F E Digangi, Jenkins’s quantitative Pharmaceutical Chemistry, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.
6. A Braithwaite and F J Smith, Chromatographic Methods, Chapman and Hall, London.
7. E Heftmann, Chromatography, Von Nostrond Reinheld Co, New York, 1975.
8. A Pryde and M J Gilbert, Applications of High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Chapman & Hall, London, 1979.
9. E Stahl, Thin Layer Chromatography, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969.
10. R Hamilton, Introduction to HPLC, P A Sewell, Chapman & Hall, London, 1982.