Pharmacy - Adv Infct Dis-Trnlt Case Stdes

Catalog description

This course is an interdepartmental elective focusing on advanced clinical decision-making within the field of infectious diseases. Utilizing clinical infectious disease cases based off of real-life patients, students will assess and make therapeutic recommendations via team-based active-learning exercises. These activities aim prepare students for advanced pharmacy practice and residency experiences in acute care settings with complicated and challenging patients, by providing students hands-on instruction in reading and assessing patient data including laboratory values and radiology reports, following patient progress over multiple days and adjusting patent care plans based on new unforeseen data, writing infectious diseases-specific SOAP notes, orally presenting patients using presentation styles expected for 4th year APPE rotations and residency rotations, and using basic scientific principles when determining appropriate courses of patient care. Additional professional preparation in "soft skills" will be provided. Prerequisite: Students must be admitted to the school of Pharmacy to enroll in this course. Students must be in their third professional year (P3).