1 credit
Spring 2026 Lecture
This is the first course in a series of five courses focused on aiding in the individual professional development of student pharmacists through a focus on systematic, holistic patient work up grounded in the Pharmacists' Patient Care Process (PPCP). These courses place a heavy emphasis on refining a student's own systematic patient work-up and monitoring approach, practicing holistic, patient-specific care plan development, and refining other skills to prepare students for experiential education. The cases used in each class simulate actual patient cases which include continuity of care challenges, typical problems/diseases seen across pharmacy settings (e.g., ambulatory care, community, hospital, etc.), and multiple chronic diseases. The cases will include topics within the corresponding Integrated Pharmacotherapy (IPT) courses as well as integrating previous IPT content and topics not within IPT. Class time will be spent working up patients individually and as a team, discussing the monitoring/PPCP process, identifying and applying drug information resources, and verbally communicating pharmacotherapy plans to peers and faculty. The complexity of patient cases and volume of patients cared for will increase throughout the case series sequence. All course activities are designed to help enhance the transition into introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences.
Learning Outcomes1Develop your own standardized approach for systematic and effective patient workup and monitoring for use in any clinical setting within the Pharmacist's Patient Care Process framework. a. Clearly detail your process to explain what information is relevant to collect/assess. b. Identify a method for organizing collected information that contributes to an effective monitoring approach. c. Complete patient workup in an efficient (or timely) manner.
2Create a holistic patient-specific, evidence-based pharmacotherapy plan for one or more patients that includes both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management strategies. Prioritize patient problems based on clinical setting/encounter. b. Utilize evidence-based resources (primary literature, guidelines, etc.) in the selection and adjustment of pharmacotherapy for the delivery of care to every patient. c. Develop solutions to address barriers related to the social drivers of health. d. Adjust recommendations with new or unanticipated information. e. Create a detailed monitoring plan to achieve prioritized goals of therapy.
3Communicate patient workup processes and/or pharmacotherapy plans clearly to a variety of audiences (e.g., patients, providers, pharmacists, other healthcare team members, etc.).
4Refine your professional identity (the ability to think, act, and feel like a pharmacist) through development of your own standardized workup and monitoring process, development of patient-specific, evidence-based pharmacotherapy plans, and reflective communication activities.
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