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Early Clinical Experience in Pharmacy
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Syllabus
Course Title: Early Clinical Experience in Pharmacy
Course Number:
Team Leader:
Cynthia Raehl, Pharm.D.
Email: raehl@cortex.ama.ttuhsc.edu
Phone: 356-4010
Team Members:
C.A.Bond, Pharm.D.
Email: cbond@ama.ttuhsc.edu
Phone: 356-4000, ext.244
Carlos Fernandez, Pharm.D.
Email: carlosr@ama.ttuhsc.edu
Phone: 356-4000, ext.307
Tresa Woods, M.S.
Email: twoods@ama.ttuhsc.edu
Phone: 356-4000, ext.283
Teresa Sterling, Pharm.D.
Email: sterling@cortex.ama.ttuhsc.edu
Phone: 356-4000 ext. 321
Textbook/Course Materials:
Recommended: Gallo JJ, Fulmer T, Paveza GJ, Reichel W. Handbook of Geriatric Assessment, 3rd ed. Aspen publishers, Geithersburg, MD, 2000
Prerequisites or Concurrent Enrollment:
- Geriatric Student Teaching Assistant (GSTA) or Early Clinical Experience
- Participant Student (ECEPS)
- First year Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate
Catalog Description:
Early clinical experiences at first and second year of doctor of pharmacy program. Two elective semester credit hours will be given upon completion of second year enrollment.
Course Mission:
This course is designed to provide early clinical experiences to first and second year Doctor of Pharmacy Students. The clinical experiences will be provided through the integration of lectures, discussions, presentations, and structured visits to a volunteered geriatrics patient population. Upon completion of the course, the candidates should be able to effectively communicate with geriatric patients, and perform some commonly used geriatric physical and mental assessment. Also, the candidate should be familiar with the common medical and social issues related to the geriatric population.
Tech's Top Ten:
- Communication
- Problem Prevention and Solving.
- Providing Patient-Specific Pharmaceutical Care.
- Moral Reasoning, Ethical, and Legal Judgment.
- Advancing the Profession and Promoting Good Health.
- Personal Growth
Course objectives:
- To define the normal aging process and the disease process that exists in the geriatric population.
- To demonstrate appropriate interaction and communication techniques with seniors in the clinical setting.
- To perform physical, social, and cognitive assessments with seniors of varying levels of care.
- To compare and contrast various roles of geriatric health care professionals.
- To examine information gathered during clinical visits along with written historical information to obtain comprehensive objective assessment of the senior patient.
- To evaluate and critique senior health care and determine the role of the clinical pharmacist.
Teaching methods:
This course will consist of interactive lectures, discussions, presentations and patient visits. Close faculty interaction, and mentoring are encouraged. Patient assessment, and documentation skills will be taught in lectures, practiced during patient visits, and reinforced during discussion, and presentations.
Attendance:
Candidates are expected to attend all visitation, discussion, presentation, and relevant training sessions. Make-up sessions are allowed only with pre-arrangements, or special arrangements with assigned preceptors.
Class Timeliness/Tardiness:
All candidates are expected to uphold a professional level of respect for their fellow
classmates and preceptors, by arriving on time to all sessions. The following Clerkship policy has been adopted to discourage tardiness:
- One excused tardy up to 30 minutes. After 30 minutes the tardiness becomes an absence.
- The 2nd tardy (and all subsequent tardies) will result in a 2% (a 2 point) reduction per incidence in the final grade for the clerkship. Example: If there are 3 tardies total, 1 is excused and the other 2 will result in a 2% deduction per incidence, for a total of 4 points deducted, thus an 84% will be reduced to an 80% per this example.
Overview of Examination Schedule:
There is no examination for this course. Assessment questionnaires will be administered to students at the beginning, middle, and the end of each semester. The assessments are not graded. It is required that students to complete the assessments to receive credits in this course.
Grading methods:
Grading will be based on students' attendance, participation, and written documentation of each clinical visit.
Attendance: 40% of total grading
Participation: 40% of total grading
Written documentation: 20% of total grading
Intellectual Integrity:
All work completed in this course is expected to be from the candidate him/herself. All paraphrased work that is not original, must be referenced to the appropriate source. Word-for-word copying of another's work is unacceptable unless it is surrounded by quotation marks and is referenced. Violations of intellectual integrity will result in a zero grade for the course.
Second Chance policy:
This is an elective course. There will be no second chance policy.
Etiquette and Professional Attire:
Candidates are encouraged to respect the learning environment and exhibit professional behavior at all times. Candidates will not have access to printers during class time. Candidates should concentrate their computer activities on this course. Completion of other course work during this time is discouraged. Surfing the net is
inappropriate. Under no circumstances, will food and drinks be allowed in the classroom. Candidates, who in the observations of the faculty are disrupting learning, may be asked to leave the classroom. Return to the classroom will be considered following a meeting with the course team and demonstration of appropriate understanding of behavior. Candidates will frequently be asked to provide short analytical responses to questions posed in class. Upon being addressed, Candidates will rise, introduce themselves in a professional manner, restate the question or problem succinctly and then deliver their response. Professional attire is required when Candidates present scheduled individual or group verbal presentations. For these presentations, candidates should wear clean white pressed lab jackets with name tags. Shorts, tee shirts, and jeans are not acceptable at any time for men or women. Candidates not meeting professional attire expectations will not earn a group grade. All Candidates within a group will be prepared to answer questions and provide insight into the group presentation; therefore, all group members should be professionally attired.
Candidate Disability:
Any student who, because of a disability, may require special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the Teaching Team within one week of the beginning of this course to make the necessary accommodations.
Ethical Standards:
The ethics standards for the School of Pharmacy and the APhA Code of Ethics is in effect for all components of this course. Candidates found to be in violation of ethical standards will receive zero (0) points for the course and will be reported to the Credentialling and Student Affairs Committees of the School of Pharmacy.
Missed Examination Policy:
N/A
Facilities:
Group sessions (e.g., training, oral presentations), may be held in an appropriate classroom at the clinical site or at the School of Pharmacy campus site. Clinical visitations will be conducted at individual clinical sites. Primary clinical site is Craig Methodist Retirement Community.
Candidate Inquiries:
Questions or comments should be directed to the team leader or to the faculty member leading the lecture/discussion period. All team members are required to post office numbers at which they may be reached.
Communication:
The student's communication must be both ethical and professional. Intentional misrepresentation of a colleague to another (e.g., physician, nurse) will result in immediate dismissal from the course and the student will receive a grade of 0%. The candidate is responsible for promoting good communication between the pharmacist,
patient, physician, and the School. Learn from your preceptors how to handle conflicts and discuss any disagreements with your preceptor in private, not in front of patients, customers or other employees. Learning is not passive, and the more you question and pursue, the more prepared you will be to practice when you graduate. Constructive criticism is a means of learning and is not meant to embarrass. Any conflicts, which may arise between the candidate and the preceptor, should first be handled by discussing with one another. If resolution of the conflict is not achieved, then bringing the issue to the attention of the course coordinator is strongly encouraged. Our goal is to ensure the most amicable environment possible.
Immunizations:
Before reporting to a clinical site, candidates must have completed all immunizations required by the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and their clinical site. It is the responsibility of each student to present a current copy of their immunization record (see required immunization list below) to individual preceptor, upon arrival for
day one orientation. Candidates who have not completed the required immunizations or do not have their record of these required immunizations will not be allowed to start at the site. Failure to comply will result in an unexcused absence for each day missed until the required immunization record is presented to the Primary Preceptor of Record.
- Flu vaccine - required annually
- TB - required annually
- MMR (2 doses) - many of you received these as a child
- DT - within the last ten years
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Hepatitis B (3 doses) - a 6 month process from the first of the shot
- (1st day, 30 days and 6 months from day of 1st shot)
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Chicken Pox (2 doses if received after 13th birthday)
- In August, 1999 the State passed a new law regarding vaccinations for health care providers. It is now required that all health care providers be vaccinated for chicken pox. Please obtain this vaccination and provide written proof to Student Services Office. To self-report, you must make a written statement giving month, day and year of infection and given written signature. Emails are not acceptable.
Course Schedule: (see attached)
Course Schedule:(Class of 2004 students)
Year 1
Semester One
10/00
Training: Family / social history, ADL/IADL, communication
10/00
Visit: FH / SH, ADL / IADL, vision / hearing
Semester Two
2/01
Training: chart review
2/01
Visit: brief patient visit, chart review
3/01
Consultant pharmacist interview
3/01
Training: GDS / MMSE
3/01
Visit: GDS / MMSE / ADL / IADL
4/01
Training: medical history / pain assessment
4/01
Visitation: medical history / pain assessment, ADL / IADL
Year 2
Semester One
9/01
Training: obtaining Subjective & Objective information for active illnesses; clock drawing exercise
9/01
Visitation: S&O, 2 clock drawing, ADL / IADL
10/01
Visitation: S&O, ADL / IADL
10/01
Discussion: S & O
11/01
Visitation: ADL / IADL, SOAP
11/01
Presentation: SOAP
Semester Two
2/02
Visitation: SOAP update
2/02
Presentation SOAP update, answering drug information
3/02
Visitation: vital signs, pain assessment, mental Examination
4/02
Planning meetings: public service on a geriatric health issue
4/02
Public service
Course Schedule:(Class of 2005 students)
Year 1
Semester One
10/01
Training: Family / social history, ADL/IADL, communication
10/01
Visit: FH / SH, ADL / IADL, vision / hearing
11/01
Training: Review of social hx, determination of condition and chief complaints, discussion of death & dying issues.
11/01
Visit: Review SH, ADL & IADL status, determine presences of Advance Directives
Semester Two
2/02
Training: chart review
2/02
Visit: brief patient visit, chart review
3/02
Consultant pharmacist interview
3/02
Training: GDS / MMSE
3/02
Visit: GDS / MMSE / ADL / IADL
4/02
Training: medical history / pain assessment
4/02
Visit: medical history / pain assessment, ADL / IADL
Year 2
Semester One
9/02
Training: obtaining Subjective & Objective information for active illnesses; clock drawing exercise
9/02
Visit: S&O, 2 clock drawing, ADL / IADL
10/02
Visit: S&O, ADL / IADL
10/02
Discussion: S & O
11/02
Visit: ADL / IADL, SOAP
11/02
Presentation: SOAP
Semester Two
2/03
Visit: SOAP update
2/03
Presentation SOAP update, answering drug information
3/03
Visit: vital signs, pain assessment, mental Examination
4/03
Planning meetings: public service on a geriatric health issue
4/03
Public service