This block contains epidemology, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and pharmacotherapy as they relate to cardiology. This block covers materials from basic biochemistry to advanced pharmacotherapeutics as they relate to nutrition.
Topics reflect the standards of current pharmacy practice in nutrition.
Accordingly, the overall goal of this block is to enable pharmacy students to integrate their knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide an individualized nutrition pharmacotherapeutic plan for a given patient. This block focuses on the pathophysiology, pharmacology, and pharmacotherapy relevant to diseases affecting the central nervous system. The main goal of this block is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide optimal pharmaceutical care to patients with neurologic disorders. Disease states covered include dementias, epilepsy, headache, Parkinsonism, acute and chronic pain and stroke. The purpose of this block is to enable students to integrate the pathophysiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and therapeutic knowledge in the management of specific disease states.