Graduate students and undergraduate students from other faculties may be admitted to the course with permission from the instructor. A 160 hour clerkship normally completed during a 4-5 week period in the summer immediately prior to entering the fourth year clinical Pharmacy courses. The role of the pharmacist in the resolution of drug-related problems will be stressed. Alternative Medicines in Pharmacy Practice . Pharmacotherapeutic intervention in selected acute and chronic diseases and disorders.
Emphasis is on recommendations for and monitoring of drug therapy.
Models of linear and dose-dependent systems in pharmacokinetics including sustained release, volumes of distribution, drug clearance, metabolite kinetics, multiple dosing and computer modelling. Students will be assigned to clinicians in the selected specialty who are members of either the Faculty of Medicine or Pharmaceutical Sciences and who are appointed as clinical instructors for this course. A study of physical and chemical properties of pharmaceutical systems with emphasis on formulation and preparative aspects. A study of problems in pharmaceutics with emphasis on biopharmaceutical aspects. A study of problems in pharmaceutics with emphasis on aspects of quality evaluation.