FARM4100 – Personalised Drug Therapy
Course content
The course will provide students with competence regarding complex pharmacotherapy, exemplified by patients in the extremes of life (i.e. children and the elderly) and patients with multi morbidities. In addition, the course will provide students with competence regarding causes of individual variability in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, efficacy and safety of drugs, pharmaceutical issues on fluid therapy and nutrition, and personalised administration of drugs. The course will also provide students with an understanding of inter professional education.
Learning outcome
After completing the course
- you can ?describe various contributors to individual variability in pharmacokinetics and - dynamics, especially how this?might deviate in children and the elderly compared to the standard population, and the impact of this on pharmacotherapy for these patients
- you can describe clinical challenges in the treatment of multi morbid patients
- you can describe situations in which personalised administration of drugs might be relevant, and challenges in connection to such administration, including pharmaceutical issues on fluid therapy and nutrition
- you can, in collaboration with other students, prepare and present proposals for treatment optimisation for patient cases
- you will have knowledge about the value of communication and collaboration with other health care professions in a clinical setting
- you will have insight into digital safety in connection to storage of patient data, e.g. in medical records, medication charts and the national?Summary Care Record
Admission to the course
The course is only available to students enrolled at the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
- FARM1100 – Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- FARM1110 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 1
- FARM1120 – Social Pharmacy
- FARM1130 – Pharmaceutically Based Organic Chemistry
- FARM1140 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 2
- FARM1150 – Pharmaceutical Based Biochemistry
- FARM2100 – Medicinal Chemistry
- FARM2110 – Pharmacotherapy 1
- FARM2120 – Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
- FARM2130 – Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry
- FARM2140 – Pharmaceutical Microbiology
- FARM2150 – Formulation of Drugs and Quality Assurance in Drug Production
- FARM3100 – Pharmacognosy
- FARM3110 – Pharmacotherapy 2
- FARM3120 – Medicine Use and Public Health
- completed and approved pharmacy practice period in FARM3130 – Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE)
- passed the compulsory HSE-courses HMS0501 – Safety and Physical Environment, HMS0502 – Positive Learning Environment, HMS0503 – Laboratory Safety, HMS0506 – Patient Clinic Safety and HMS0507 – Fire Safety required for students at the 5-year Master`s Programme in Pharmacy.
For students admitted to the 5-year Master`s Programme in Pharmacy until and including 2016 and who have been transferred from the old study plan, separate formal prerequisite knowledge apply. These are in professional compliance with the formal prerequisite knowledge that apply to the course, but may be replaced by courses from the old study plan, as well as transitional courses. Students on transitional arrangements may contact the study administration for a complete overview of the formal prerequisite knowledge required.
Course exemptions:
Laws and regulations describing the overall learning outcome regulate the Pharmacy programme. Exemptions are only granted if all learning outcomes in the course are covered.
Teaching
Lectures and student active teaching, including seminars, skill training and interprofessional education/ internship. Participation at skill training sessions, completing the introduction module (digital) in interprofessional education/internships and participation in an seminar on interprofessional education are compulsory (up to 50 hours).
- 30 hours lectures
- 60 hours student-active teaching
Several versions of interprofessional education (SamPraks) will be offered, but with a restriced number to be admitted per category. You will find more information about SamPraks here (only in Norwegian): SamPraks - Sammen i praksis - SamPraks - Sammen i praksis (uio.no).?Admittance will be regulated through an application process using Nettskjema (a link will be available in Canvas). If there are more applicants to one category than available positions, a draw will be made.?
Compulsory participation in the course must be completed and compulsory submissions must be approved to pass the exam.?Read more about what applies in the event of absence from compulsory activities.
As?the?teaching involves laboratory and/or field work, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance.?Read about your insurance cover as a student.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Compulsory participation and approved assignments are valid for 3 years.
Examination
Oral exam with 1 hour for preparations and 40 minutes examination. The oral exam counts 100 % of final grade.
This course has compulsory assignments that must be approved before you can sit the finale exam.
Examination support material
Students may use any aids they require, but cooperation or communication with others are not allowed during the exam.
Language of examination
The examination text is given in Norwegian. You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.