Pharmaceutical Practice and Management 2 - Practice

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

The lectures of the semester will further outline the pharmaceutical supply system, especially in community and clinical practice, and pharmaceutical care. Interactive discussions will cover essential topics regarding self-medication, patient counselling and over the counter products used in minor diseases. Main aim of these studies is to solidify pharmacy practice and related knowledge in legislation, health economics, marketing and pharmaceutical care, in order to understand pharmacoeconomics, drug allocation, pharmaceutical management, evidence based medicine, clinical pharmacy services.

The course will introduce the basic function of the health care system and pharmaceutical supply chain in respect of general legal, pharmaceutical, economical, marketing relations and specialties. Further, the fundamentals of health economics and pharmaeconomics, the concepts of pharmaceutical care and the basic tasks and services in hospital and clinical pharmacy are covered to support pharmacists; clinical knowledge. Development of legal norms, hierarchy of norms, patients rights, claim for damages and other legislative aspects of pharmacy practice are introduced in this semester. Lectures will cover basic knowledge regarding marketing and specific issues in marketing for pharmacists.

Students can access the slides of the lectures and further reading material on a designated web-based interface (e.g. MS Teams and/or Neptun Meet Street).

Lectures

Practices

• 1. Pharmaceutical Care: evolution, principles. - Télessy István
• 2. Pharmaceutical Care: feasibility and technique, legal framework, levels - Télessy István
• 3. Pharmaceutical Care: Special populations - Télessy István
• 4. Pharmaceutical Care: Asthma. Allergic rhinitis, COPD 1 - Télessy István
• 5. Pharmaceutical Care: Asthma. Allergic rhinitis, COPD 2 - Télessy István
• 6. Definition and history of marketing - Fittler András Tamás
• 7. The pharmaceutical and healthcare market - Fittler András Tamás
• 8.

  Decision Analysis

  - Domián Bálint Márk
• 9.

  Decision Tree

  - Domián Bálint Márk
• 10. Midterm-test - Fittler András Tamás
• 11. Drug Utilization Studies - Vida Róbert György
• 12.

  Quality of Life

  - Vida Róbert György
• 13. Marketing mix and SWOT analysis - Fittler András Tamás
• 14. Marketing Communication, Regulations on Drug-Advertising - Fittler András Tamás
• 15. Life cycle management - Vida Róbert György
• 16. Price strategies, Distribution - Vida Róbert György
• 17. End-of-the term test - Fittler András Tamás
• 18. End-of-the term test - Vida Róbert György

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

List of study aids to acquire curriculum (books, notes, other) and all presentations can be downloaded from MS Teams and/or Neptun MeetStreet.

Notes

Recommended literature

C. Bond (ed.): Evidence-based Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Press, London, 2002.

A. J. Winfield, R. M. E. Richards (eds.): Pharmaceutical Practice, Churchill Livinstone

C. H. Knowlton, R. P. Penna (eds.): Pharmaceutical Care, ASHSP

M. Stephens (ed.): Hospital Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Press, London, 2006.

Rosemary R. Berardi, Stefanie P. Ferreri et al.: Handbook of Nonpresciption Drugs, 17th edition, American Pharmacists Association, 2012.

Walker, Roger: Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2011.

Edzard Ernst, Simon Singh: Trick or Treatment, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. Section IV: Nutrition and Nutritional Supplementation, Section XI: Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Edzard Ernst, Simon Singh: Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial

John P. Griffin, John Posner, Geoffrey R. Barker: The Textbook of Pharmaceutical Medicine, 7th Edition, 2013.

Paul Rutter: Community Pharmacy - Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment 4th Edition. Elsevier 2017

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Acceptance of term/semester:

Regular attendance of classes (maximum 25 % of absence is accepted),

Assignments given in class should be carried out during term-time, further OTC presentations and Evaluation of counseling skills in practice (these are criterion requirements for the course, the completion of oral case study in the end-of-the semester is required for the evaluation) must be completed, and

mid-term and end-of-the term test be written/taken. Passing the tests is not obligatory for semester acceptance; however advisable as you will likely have better results and a good recommended grade for PPM2. There is a retake opportunity only for the end-of-the term test.

Mid-term exams

Mid-term tests:During the semester a mid-term test will be written. In case of unsuccessful or missed test, additional questions will be added to the end-of-the-term test. The number of additional questions may vary regarding the number of unsuccessful or missed mid-term tests.There is no retake opportunity for the unsuccessful or missed mid-term tests.

End-of-the-term test: On the last week of the semester, a test will be written on the whole semester's curriculum. Further additional questions are included in the end-of-the-term test, if the student has not carried out an assignment during the semester. The number of these questions may vary according to the unsuccessful or missed assignments. In case of unsuccessful or missed end-of-the term test, one retake opportunity is granted to make up during the last week of the semester.

The practical grade for PPM2 is based upon the completion of the given assignments, self-care and nonprescription pharmacotherapy module, the mid-term test.

Making up for missed classes

Retake opportunity is possible following personal discussion for the end-of-the term test.

Exam topics/questions

End-of-the-term test will be on the whole semester’s curriculum. Additional questions can be included in the end-of-the-term test, if the student has not carried out an assignment during the semester or in case of unsuccessful midterm test.

Assessment of the student performance is carried out according to a five-grade scale: 100-86,1% -excellent (5); 86-77,1% -good (4); 77-68,1% -satisfactory (3); 68-60,1% -pass (2); and below 60,0% -fail (1) respectively.

In case of the PPM 2. we offer recommended grade only in case of average (3), good (4) and excellent (5). For those who reached 2 or failed (1) the end-of-the term test and the retake, will come to oral exam, where the students should elaborate two essay questions. If a student got fail (1) as a grade in the end-of-the term test, also there will be a written Minimum Exam Test before the oral exam. In case of pass (2) there is no Minimum Exam Test.

Final recommended grade for PPM2 is based upon the completion of the given assignments, self-care and nonprescription pharmacotherapy module, the mid-term test and the end-of-the term test. The practice part must be completed and accepted (criterion requirements) for all students, however depending on the recommended curriculum students may not receive a separate practical grade.

Examiners

• Ashraf Amir Reza
• Botz Lajos
• Fittler András Tamás
• Vida Róbert György

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Ashraf Amir Reza
• Domián Bálint Márk
• Fittler András Tamás
• Télessy István
• Vida Róbert György