2024
Applied Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy I
Name: Applied Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy I
Code: CMS13775I
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Ciências Farmacêuticas
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC aims to provide students with knowledge and skills in specific therapeutic areas, integrating the contents of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, applying the therapies available in the different pathophysiological frameworks, organized according to the anatomophysiological systems.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Students must:
1. Acquire knowledge and skills in specific therapeutic areas, integrating and applying the contents of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy;
2. Identify and characterize the different pathophysiological conditions and recognize the available therapeutic alternatives;
3. Integrate the pharmacological/pharmacotherapeutic approach in the context of the care trajectory, for each specific patient;
4. Identify, describe and characterize the different therapeutic groups and active ingredients available for each studied disease, regarding mechanism of action, indication, dosage and adverse events;
5. Understand, conceive and develop opinion and critical analysis on diagrams and treatment algorithms, guidelines and existing therapeutic protocols;
6. Analyze, resolve and discuss clinical cases, simulated and real, according to the contents taught.
1. Acquire knowledge and skills in specific therapeutic areas, integrating and applying the contents of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy;
2. Identify and characterize the different pathophysiological conditions and recognize the available therapeutic alternatives;
3. Integrate the pharmacological/pharmacotherapeutic approach in the context of the care trajectory, for each specific patient;
4. Identify, describe and characterize the different therapeutic groups and active ingredients available for each studied disease, regarding mechanism of action, indication, dosage and adverse events;
5. Understand, conceive and develop opinion and critical analysis on diagrams and treatment algorithms, guidelines and existing therapeutic protocols;
6. Analyze, resolve and discuss clinical cases, simulated and real, according to the contents taught.
Contents
1. Basic concepts: drugs classifications, rational use, polypharmacy, self-medication and pharmacovigilance;
2. Drugs used to CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM diseases treatment: arrhythmias, arterial hypertension, ischemic heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, dyslipidemia, thromboembolic disease, peripheral vascular disease and cerebrovascular disease;
3. Drugs used to BLOOD diseases treatment: anticoagulants, antiplatelets and antithrombotics, anti-hemorrhagics, anaemias and stimulating factors for hematopoiesis;
4. Drugs used to CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM diseases treatment: insomnia, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, headache and migraine, Alzheimer, Parkinson disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, addictions, anesthetics and central analgesics;
5. Drugs used to MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM diseases treatment: anti-inflammatory drugs used to pain treatment, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, hyperuricemia and gout.
2. Drugs used to CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM diseases treatment: arrhythmias, arterial hypertension, ischemic heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, dyslipidemia, thromboembolic disease, peripheral vascular disease and cerebrovascular disease;
3. Drugs used to BLOOD diseases treatment: anticoagulants, antiplatelets and antithrombotics, anti-hemorrhagics, anaemias and stimulating factors for hematopoiesis;
4. Drugs used to CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM diseases treatment: insomnia, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, headache and migraine, Alzheimer, Parkinson disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, addictions, anesthetics and central analgesics;
5. Drugs used to MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM diseases treatment: anti-inflammatory drugs used to pain treatment, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, hyperuricemia and gout.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical teaching will be essentially expository. The constructivist aspect will also be advocated, in a transversal way, in T and TP sessions.
In EC, the method will be based on learning in a real context, with observation/participation in clinical activities, developed in places where care is provided where the pharmacist develops his professional activity. These sessions will be supervised by a tutor in the local context and by the teaching staff of the UC, being carried out in institutions with a collaboration protocol in teaching with the UÉ.
At the seminar, a guest pharmacist will share with students, the applicability of the UC's disciplinary component, in a real context.
The evaluation will be divided into two stages:
i) Continuous assessment - T (60%), two tests; TP (20%), with presentation/discussion of practical cases; and clinical teaching (20%), evaluated according to the established criteria - case report.
ii) Total assessment by final exam (100%) - T + TP + EC.
In EC, the method will be based on learning in a real context, with observation/participation in clinical activities, developed in places where care is provided where the pharmacist develops his professional activity. These sessions will be supervised by a tutor in the local context and by the teaching staff of the UC, being carried out in institutions with a collaboration protocol in teaching with the UÉ.
At the seminar, a guest pharmacist will share with students, the applicability of the UC's disciplinary component, in a real context.
The evaluation will be divided into two stages:
i) Continuous assessment - T (60%), two tests; TP (20%), with presentation/discussion of practical cases; and clinical teaching (20%), evaluated according to the established criteria - case report.
ii) Total assessment by final exam (100%) - T + TP + EC.
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