Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) Second Year Community Pharmacy Notes PDF
1. Definition, scope, of community pharmacy, Roles and responsibilities of Community pharmacist
2. Community Pharmacy Management
a) Selection of site, Space layout, and design
b) Staff, Materials- coding, stocking
c) Legal requirements
d) Maintenance of various registers
e) Use of Computers: Business and health care soft wares
3. Prescriptions – parts of prescription, legality & identification of medication related problems like drug interactions.
4. Inventory control in community pharmacy: Definition, various methods of Inventory Control ABC, VED, EOQ, Lead time, safety stock
5. Pharmaceutical care: Definition and Principles of Pharmaceutical care.
6. Patient counselling: Definition, outcomes, various stages, barriers, Strategies to overcome barriers Patient information leaflets- content, design, & layouts, advisory labels
7. Patient medication adherence: Definition, Factors affecting medication adherence, role of pharmacist in improving the adherence.
8. Health screening services: Definition, importance, methods for screening Blood pressure/ blood sugar/ lung function and Cholesterol testing
9. OTC Medication- Definition, OTC medication list & Counselling
10. Health Education: WHO Definition of health, and health promotion, care for children, pregnant & breast
feeding women, and geriatric patients.
Commonly occurring Communicable Diseases, causative agents, Clinical presentations and prevention of communicable diseases – Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Typhoid, Amoebiasis, Malaria, Leprosy, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and AIDS, Balance diet, and treatment & prevention of deficiency disorders Family planning – role of pharmacist
11. Responding to symptoms of minor ailments: Relevant pathophysiology, common drug therapy to, Pain, GI disturbances (Nausea, Vomiting, Dyspepsia, diarrhea, constipation), Pyrexia, Opthalmic symptoms, worms infestations.
12. Essential Drugs concept and Rational Drug Therapy, Role of community pharmacist
13. Code of ethics for community pharmacists