Pharmaceutical Care in the Ambulatory Setting: Community Pharmacy Practice

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Pre-requisite: Students are required to be classified in 4th Professional Year. This practice provide students with comprehensive in -depth experience in the provision of pharmaceutical care in the community pharmacy. Its emphasis is the pharmacist's responsibility in the prevention, detection and solution of pharmacotherapeutic proble ms through a systematic pharmacist delivered patient care process. Students will be integrated to the following pharmacist responsibilities: prescription processing, counseling, compounding, direct patient care services such as medication therapy managemen t, chronic diseases education and immunizations, and providing drug information and recommendations to other health care professionals. The main instructional methodology is practice based learning. Grading system: Passed (P), Not Passed (NP) since August 2013.