Course Outline - Perspectives in Pharmacy
Course Outline - Perspectives in Pharmacy
PERSPECTIVE IN PHARMACY
Course
Description: Rationale: This course orients the students with the science and practice of the
pharmacy profession.
Focus: Focus on the history, regulations, and practice of pharmacy and roles of
pharmacists in handling mediations and in health care.
Outcomes:
1. Value Pharmacy as Health Profession.
2. Demonstrate an appreciation of history, cultural heritage, and mathematics.
3. Describe the roles of Pharmacists in the different areas of Practice, in
handling medications, and in delivery of the health care system.
Outline:
PRE-MID
I. History, evolution, and milestone in Pharmacy
II. Scope of Practice and Essential Functions of Pharmacists
III. Current and Emerging fields in Pharmacy
IV. The seven/ten star Pharmacist
V. Exclusive and Non-exclusive Functions
per Philippine Pharmacy Act of 2016
MIDTERM
VI. Evolution and milestones in Pharmacy Education
VII. Overview of the Pharmacy Curriculum
VIII. Pharmacy Research
IX. Post-graduate training and specialty
X. Continuing Professional Development
XI. Professional licensure Examination
XII. Pharmacy Practice Setting Requirements
a. Laws Affecting
b. Pharmacy Practice
c. Philippine Practice
d. Standards for Pharmacists
e. Code of Ethics for Filipino Pharmacists
f. Professional Pharmacy Associations
Private, government, and non-government agencies
Affecting Pharmacy Practice
PRE-FINALS
XIII. Drug Research
XIV. Compounding, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance
XV. Pharmaceutical Marketing and Retail
XVI. Medication Therapy Management
XVII. Product Regulation
XVIII. Public Health and Pharmaceutical Policy
XIX. Pharmacy Education
XX. Institutional Pharmacy
XXI. Community Pharmacy
FINALS
XXII. Drug Discovery and Development
XXIII. Category of Drugs
XXIV. Different Dosage Forms of Drugs
XXV. Therapeutic Category of Drugs
XXVI. Health Products in the Market
XXVII. Pharmacists Role in Handling Medication
XXVIII. Pharmacist Role in Healthcare, Health Promotion,
Drug Information Dissemination, and Medication
Therapy Management
XXIX. Role of Pharmacist as a Supervising Pharmacist
In Retail Outlet
References:
● Ansel, H Popovich G. and Allen, Jr L., Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug
Delivery System, 8th Ed., USA: Lea & Febiger, latest edition.
● Konner, D.D., Pharmacy Law Desk Reference. (2008)
● Kremer, E. and Urdang, G., History of Pharmacy: A Guide and a Survey.
● Tallis, N. and Arnold-Foster, K. Pharmacy History: A Pictorial Record.
● Four Thousand Years of Pharmacy: An Outline History of Pharmacy and Allied
Sciences.
● Global Perspectives of Pharmacy Education and Practice.
RUSELL ALEN V. FERNANDEZ, RPh, MSPharm. MARY BELEN T. MOGOL, RPh, Ph.D.
Instructor Program Head - Pharmacy