2024

Hospital Pharmacy

Name: Hospital Pharmacy
Code: CMS13758I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Ciências Farmacêuticas

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

This UC aims to acquire knowledge and skills within the scope of activities in the hospital pharmacy, namely in the effective and safe management of hospital therapy and resources, the clinical situations of pharmaceutical intervention, and the knowledge of the rules that govern these activities.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. To acquire knowledge and skills for the development of activities in the hospital pharmacy;
2. To understand the importance of an effective and safe management of therapy and hospital resources, in the multidisciplinary care team;
3. To recognize the clinical rules that govern the activity of the hospital pharmacist;
4. To identify and evaluate the clinical situations of pharmaceutical intervention;
5. To recognize the importance of hospital pharmaceutical services at the institutional level;
6. To understand the need for an adequate management of resources and compliance with drug use policies.

Contents

1. Introduction to hospital pharmacy;
2. Medicines selection;
3. Medicines purchase;
4. Medicines reception and storage;
5. Pharmacotechnics;
6. Distribution of medicines;
7. Clinical pharmacy;
8. Clinical trials in a hospital environment;
9. Rational use of medicines.

Teaching Methods

Collective contact sessions for the transmission of fundamental knowledge where active methodologies that appeal to student / student interaction will be used, such as theoretical and practical activities, debates, group / peer research work, problem solving / exploring CTS & A situations, which allows cooperative learning, a very effective method of solving problems and promoting learning.
The assessment is carried out through: Final exam (65%); Work on pharmaceutical practice in clinical situations of intervention by the pharmacist (15%); Participation in theoretical and practical classes: discussion of practical cases within the scope of pharmacotherapy and pharmaceutical care (10%); communication skills (10%).