Clinical pharmacy provides a platform to perform activities through which pharmacist cooperates and coordinates with other health professionals in designing, implementing and monitoring a therapeutic care plan in order to give better care to patients evaluation and review of drug utilization process. It provides understanding regarding monitoring, reporting and management of various types of adverse drug reactions with a thorough knowledge of factors affecting them. It plays a critical role in understanding of different drug interactions like drug-drug, drug-food, drug-lab and drug-disease interactions. The subject enables students to find and manage drug induced diseases. The students will also have an insight of role of computers in e-prescription, pharmacotherapy planning, clinical research and data management in different clinical settings. The students will gain a competency regarding how to write and how to evaluate drug literatures. Students will learn the practical skills of taking patient’s history, dose calculation for pediatric patients and establish drug information resources. Also it will polish the knowledge of students regarding management of different diseases of CV, pulmonary and GE units.
At the end of this course, students will have a better understanding of clinical pharmacy, its scope and practice. They will be able to communicate with the patients in an effective way. Moreover, they would be able to collect and analyze case studies of various patients.