Introduction
to Hospital and Hospital Pharmacy
Hospital
and its Organisation,
Hospital
Pharmacy: Objectives, Functions, Organisation, Planning, Personnel and
Administration of Hospital Pharmacy Services; Hospital Drug Policy – General
Considerations;
Hospital
Committees: Purpose, Organization and Functions of Pharmacy and Therapeutic
Committee (PTC), Role of Hospital Pharmacist in Hospital Committees and
Practice of Rational Drug Therapy and Drug Exchange Program;
Hospital Formulary
Organization,
Formulary Content, Preparation and Distribution; Pharmacy Procedural Manual
Preparation; Drug distribution, Dispensing to Inpatient and Ambulatory Patient
care, Dispensing of ancillary and controlled substance; Procurement and
Distribution of alcohol; Manufacturing of Bulk and sterile supplies; Storage
and Handling of Radio isotopic Pharmaceuticals; Budget Planning, Purchasing and
Inventory Control; Use of Surgical Instruments & Hospital Equipment.
Clinical Pharmacy
Introduction,
Scope, History and Development of Clinical Pharmacy; Investigational use of
Drugs and Drug Therapy Monitoring with examples, Adverse Drug Reaction
Management; Drug and Poison Information, Medication history review and Patient
Counseling; Patient Compliance, Patient Data Analysis and its Use in evaluation
of Clinical Tests for Common Disease States and Organ Functional Tests (Liver, Pulmonary
and Renal) for Drug Therapy; Definition and Differences of Generic and
Prescription Drugs;
Basic Principles of Drug Therapy
Concepts of Essential Drugs and Rational Drug
Use;
Drug
Distribution: Out Patient and In Patient Services; Unit dose drug distribution
systems, floor ward stock systems, satellite pharmacy services, central sterile
services and bed side pharmacy;
Drug-
Drug Interactions: Mechanism of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic
interactions with suitable examples; Food and Drug interactions. Incidence,
Classification and Surveillance Methods of Adverse Reactions of Drugs;
Therapeutic Aspects of Pharmaco Genetics;
Drug
induced Disease – Dermatological, Hepatic, GI, Renal, Gout, Parkinsonism,
Cancer, Depression, Psychosis, Ototoxicity, Ocular toxicity and Teratogenicity.
Adverse drug reactions.
Pharmaco Therapy of Diseases
Diseases:
– Symptoms, Manifestation, Patho-Physiology and Etiology of - Gastrointestinal
diseases: Peptic ulcer, Ulcerative colitis, Hepatitis & Cirrhosis (Liver).
Cardio Vascular System diseases – Angina Pectoris, Acute Myocardial Infunction,
Atherosclerosis, Essential Hypertension, Cardiac arrhythmia. Respirtory
diseases – Asthma and T.B.; STD – HIV, Syphilis and Gonorrhea.; Anemia,
Parkinsonism, Diabetes, Gout and Rheumatiod arthritis.
Pharmaco
Therapy and Critical Analysis of Rational Use of Drugs in the following
Disorders: Cardio Vascular, Respiratory, Renal, Gastro-Intestinal, Nervous,
Psychiatric, Rheumatic, Hematological, Endocrine and Infections.