DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES

Clinical pharmacy is the branch of Pharmacy, in which pharmacists provide patient care that optimizes the use of  medication and promote health, wellness and disease prevention.

The objective is promotion of human health through safe, efficacious and affordable pharmaceutical interventions. To provide pharmacy students with knowledge as well as technical and scientific skills for appropriate use of therapeutic substances.

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

The end of this course the students will be able to;

• Describe the clinical pharmacy and other patient oriented pharmacy terms.
• Interpret the relationships between clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical care and good pharmacy practice.
• Recognize the importance of pharmacist in patient education and counseling.
• Explain the principles of rational drug use.
• Students will be familiar with the pharmacist's roles in the management of frequently-encountered acute cases in the pharmacy and express the updated pharmacotherapy approaches to different diseases.
• Discuss landmark advances of different medicines with unique impact on pharmacist activities and services.

Implement pharmacist’s role in realizing health system, national, and global health care goals