Content with Disciplines : Pharmacy

Service Learning I & II

School: Purdue University Main Campus Professor: Dr. Robert K. Chalmers COURSE GOALS: a. Provide a caring experience that inculcates the values and ethics of treating people as individuals b. Continue development of student foundational and professional abilities c. Develop sensitivity to persons who are different by virtue of cultural, race, age, economic circumstance, disability or other reasons d. Experience the important interrelationship of social services and social support to a person·s or family unit·s health care efforts and effectiveness e. Increase social awareness of health-related issues and citizenship enhancement in general COURSE DESCRIPTION: Service Learning I – For first and…

Pharmacy Practice – “Community Practice”

Taught Autumn QuartersCredit Hours: 4 (quarter) Course Description This is a class designed to allow students to experience how a pharmacist in a continuity setting would gather information and counsel patients in a variety of areas, as listed in the course syllabus. Information is provided using specific examples of specific products with emphasis is heavy in application to practice. Information on different OTC products, parapharmaceuticals, ancillary products, disease management issues, and breastfeeding issues are topics not covered in other courses. Recommendations of how products should be used or how disease management/healthcare management issues should be taught by pharmacists are also…