You will continue to use your DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy as the required text. CLPH 567 - Principles of Drug Information and Literature Evaluation. 2 credits, meet once a week for approximately four hours on a day and time mutually agreeable to the group assembling at your site. The course covers the use and evaluation of primary, secondary and tertiary literature, medical and pharmaceutical data bases, considerations for geriatric and pediatric questions, study design, investigational drugs, clinical application of biomedical statistics, pharmacy and therapeutics committees, and ADR evaluation and reporting. STAT 503 or its equivalent is a prerequisite to the Drug Information Services and Literature Evaluation course.
Suitable courses are often available at regional campuses.
A correspondence course is also available, Call Pharmacy Continuing Education for more information. You also will be required to purchase the course notes manual. Access to a computer with internet access is required. Purdue University is approved by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education. This is a continuing education activity of Purdue University, an equal access, equal opportunity institution.