Special Pops. Pharmacotherapy: Preg, Peds, & Ger.

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Special Populations Pharmacotherapy: A Focus on Pregnant, Pediatric, & Geriatric Patients that will focus on common disease states affecting the pediatric, geriatric, and pregnant populations and their management. These specific patient populations require special consideration because of their varying pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics profiles. Pathophysiological and pharmacological principles of each disease state and their respective treatments will be reviewed. The course will be based on team-led topic presentations and in -class discussion to enhance students' knowledge base and improve oral and written communication skills. Each team will be responsible for presenting assigned topics (pregnant, pediatric, or geriatric topic) and creating an in -class application exercise for each topic. Additionally, each student who is not presenting will be responsible for developing questions to ask each presenting team. Class participation points will be based on student engagement with…