Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in Doctor-pharmacist Cooperation

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026

Course director

  • Marek Erika Mária

    associate professor,
    Department of Public Health Medicine

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAF-TKL-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Topic

The course aims to improve the collaboration between doctors and pharmacists, providing medical students with an insight into the key knowledge, challenges and evolving and expanding pharmacist competencies that are essential for the successful doctor-pharmacist collaboration.

In teaching the subject, particular emphasis is placed on identifying opportunities and strategies for collaboration and the factors that influence them. The acquirement of a background knowledge of the professional activities of pharmacists ultimately serves the healing and improvement of patients and the availability of appropriate drug therapy.

Lectures

  • 1.

    Historical overview - the development of the pharmacist profession

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 2.

    The role of pharmacists in patient-centred care - adherence, patient education, prevention

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 3.

    Ethical and legal considerations in pharmacotherapy

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 4.

    Knowledge of drug discovery and manufacturing

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 5.

    Regulatory tasks related to medicines: drug authorisation, dietary supplements, "Miracles", etc.

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 6.

    Pharmaceutical supply chain related knowledge

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 7.

    Pharmacovigilance, the role of health professionals in the safety of medicines

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 8.

    Systemic and organisational challenges

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 9.

    Potential implementation of new pharmacist competencies, presentation through international examples 1

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 10.

    Potential implementation of new pharmacy competencies, illustrated by international examples 2

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 11.

    Framework, possibilities, forms of doctor-pharmacist cooperation, future directions

    - Katz Zoltán
  • 12.

    Written exam

    - Katz Zoltán

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Pharmaceutical Public Policy: The Politics of Innovation
David J. Salas, Randall D. S. Schreiber

2020; Springer

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Active participation at lectures (85% at least), and successful completition of the final written test.

Mid-term exams

There is no mid-term exam.

Making up for missed classes

Based on individual consultation with the lecturer.

Exam topics/questions

The exam will be based on the lectures and the recommended readings.

Examiners

  • Katz Zoltán

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars