دكتور صيدلة
Doctor of Pharmacy (Post-Bachelor)

Semester – 1

DP 610-1: Pharmacotherapy Updates: Emergency Medicine

The emergency medicine focuses on the advanced management of conditions commonly encountered in acute and critical care pharmacotherapy. The objectives of the course in emergency medicine are to specialize the student with an advanced grounding in this clinical area.

DP 610-2: Pharmacotherapy Updates: Cardiology

This specialization course focuses on the advanced management of cardiac diseases. It includes advanced and specialized pharmacotherapy in the management of complex cardiovascular cases. The case-based learning prepares the students to provide optimal cardiac care.

DP 610-4: Pharmacotherapy Updates: Oncology

This course covers focuses on the advanced management of oncology diseases. It includes advanced and specialized pharmacotherapy in the management of complex cancer cases. The case based learning prepares students to provide optimal oncology care.

DP 611: Advanced Clinical Skills

This course develops advanced clinical skills in pharmacy practice. The skills include interprofessional care, vaccination, medication recommendations, and advanced clinical pharmacy services. It focuses on evidence-based decision-making and optimized patient care in complex and special populations.

DP 612: Evidence-Based Practice

This course covers higher levels of evidence utilization in clinical pharmacy practice. It focuses on advanced search and critical appraisal skills. Critical writing of high-quality reports on clinical specialty fields is also practiced. Patient-centered practice principles to protect patient values and achieve specialized clinical outcomes are addressed. Students prepare a research proposal as part of this course.

DP 617-2: Health Economics & Outcomes Research

This course covers the specialized economic, clinical, and humanistic aspects of healthcare outcomes, reflecting on health technology assessments. The course explains the advanced methods to measure costs and outcomes in micro (clinical) and macro (administrative) economic levels. Different stakeholder perspectives and complex economic frameworks for the evaluation and interpretation of health economic analyses and related outcomes research become center part of this course.

DP 617-3: Pharmacy Administration & Leadership

This course covers advanced pharmacy administration and leadership skills, including personnel, product, and technology management, addressing workplace conflict, informatics, continuous quality improvement, and leadership. The course places specialized emphasis on receiving and responding to different types of patients, technology and products in a pharmacy. The course builds upon these complex skills in developing a business plan to implement an innovative pharmacy service.

Semester – 2

DP 620: Modern Health Systems

This course reviews the complex components of health systems pertaining to clinical pharmacy practice. This course analyzes the specialized roles and responsibilities of each professionals and programs and how they coexist as part of the current health care practice. Quality of health care delivery as specific to special populations is also evaluated. Emphasis will be on preparing clinical pharmacists to modernize patient and population care in health systems.

DP 621: Prescribing skills 

This course intends to enhance the students’ complex skills of prescribing, medications monitoring, communication with patients and healthcare professionals, data interpretation, and pharmaceutical calculations. The course will specialize the students for the Prescribing Skills Assessment exam.

DP 622: Pharmacotherapy Updates: Infectious Diseases

This course covers advanced pharmacotherapy knowledge and skills in infectious diseases. It enables students to evaluate and recommend complex pharmacotherapy decisions in multiple infectious diseases.

DP 623: Pharmacotherapy Updates: Internal Medicine

This course introduces the clinical use of medications in preventing and managing complex multi-morbid conditions and serves as a foundation for delivering advanced pharmaceutical care. The course will enhance intricate and specialized therapeutic knowledge and skills vital to delivering patient care and improve clinical outcomes in internal medicine.

DP 624: Complex Case discussion

This course is designed to advance case-solving skills in different clinical topics. Students in this course will have an opportunity to specialize medication related information, identify drug related problems, design a pharmaceutical care plan, and discuss with preceptors. The student will be able to systematically present and discuss complex clinical cases related to advanced pharmacotherapy disease topics. This course covers some conditions in Advanced Pharmacotherapy I and 2.

DP 625: Pharmacist-led Clinics

This course intends to advance the role of pharmacist in leading ambulatory care clinics, explore the complex examples of real-world pharmacist-led clinics in different specialties and train them to design an efficient and successful simulated pharmacist-led clinic and gather the necessary resources to implement them.

DP 626-1: Pharmacy Elective-1 – Drugs in Sport

This course focuses on advanced knowledge of drugs using in sports by the athletes and other person. It studies the complex perspective of International and national regulation of drug use, monitoring, testing and legal aspects of drug use in sports. This course will allow the student to learn specialized roles of Athlete Support Personnel.

DP 626-2: Pharmacy Elective-1 – Parenteral Nutrition

This course is designed to advance the scope of clinical problems related to complex parenteral nutrition and intravenous therapy. Students will be taught the rationale of using complex intravenous therapy and parenteral and enteral nutritional therapy with their advantages, disadvantages, complications and monitoring parameters.

DP 627-1: Pharmacy Elective-2; Critical Care

This course is designed to advance students with complex real-life problems encountered by pharmacists in critical care practice settings such as the Intensive Care Unit, Cardiac Care Unit and Emergency Department. Students will be taught the specialized rationale of using various therapies on the complex diseases on the basis advantages, disadvantages, complications and monitoring parameters.

DP 627-2: Pharmacy Elective-2; Clinical Trials

The course covers advances of clinical research especially the clinical trials. It specializes good clinical practices on appropriate conductance of clinical trials with complex examples. Landmark clinical trials are discussed to reinforce how to adapt specialized clinical practice based on the findings. 

Year – 2 Rotations

DP 630R: Ambulatory Care

This course empowers students to advance their ambulatory care practice. It focuses on specialized patient care by assisting them. Evaluate and improvise the pharmacists’ care process model at complex ambulatory care setting. It is a mandatory rotation.

DP 631R: Critical Care

This rotation empowers students to advance their practice in critical care, especially with complex clinical cases. The opportunity is to be part of delivery of highly advanced and specialized critical care. Improvements in process and quality of pharmacists provided critical care services are essential. This is a mandatory rotation. 

DP 632R: Internal Medicine

The Internal medicine rotation focuses on management of complex conditions encountered in internal medicine. The objective is to advance the experience in the Internal Medicine. Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process is practiced in this rotation to improve complex patient care. Demonstration of leadership, advocacy, and innovation in improving the services are practiced. This is a mandatory rotation. 

DP 633R: Infectious Diseases

This specialized rotation facilitates practice opportunities to abilities gained from complex infectious diseases. The focus of this training is to develop specialized practice in patients with even advanced and complex infectious disease conditions. A detailed search in the complexities of infectious diseases prepares students to be specialist infectious diseases clinical pharmacists. This is a mandatory rotation. 

DP 640R: Cardiology

This is an advanced rotation facilitates advanced practice opportunities to abilities gained from specialization course in cardiology. The focus of this training is to develop specialized practice in patients with even advanced and complex cardiovascular conditions. A parallel research in the specialized area of cardiology prepares students to be specialist cardiology clinical pharmacists. This is an elective rotation.

DP 641R: Geriatrics

The advanced pharmacy practice experience provides a student with experience in the complex pharmacotherapeutic management of geriatric patients in direct patient care. The specialized activities of the experience are to build upon abilities acquired from didactic learning to provide specialized services to old patients. This is an elective rotation. 

DP 642R: Oncology

This an advanced rotation facilitates specialized practice in oncology. The focus of this training is to develop specialized practice in patients with even advanced and complex oncology conditions. A detailed search in the specialty area of oncology prepares students to be specialist cancer support clinical pharmacists. This is an elective rotation. 

DP 643R: Pediatrics

The pediatrics rotation is designed to provide an advanced experience on applying advanced principles of pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy issues related to infants and children. The rotation prepares students to specialize Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process in the pediatric population. Demonstration of leadership, advocacy, and innovation in improving the services are practiced. Students need to be involved in professional interactions with patients with complex conditions, care givers and healthcare professionals in improving patient outcomes. This is an elective rotation. 

DP 644R: Disease State Management

The disease state management rotation focuses on complex pharmacotherapeutic management of chronic conditions. Specialized pharmacists’ patient care process in complex chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes mellitus, pulmonary disorders, psychiatry with or without renal and hepatic dysfunction) are practiced in this rotation. Demonstration of leadership, advocacy, and innovation in improving the services are expected. The disease focused approach enables students to provide specialized disease specific pharmacy services that addresses patient-centered treatment efficiency, safety and cost -efficacy. This is an elective rotation.

DP 645: Clinical & Research Seminar

This course is designed as a companion to all APPE advanced experiences. During APPE, the student will identify a case/question that needs to be researched in advanced levels. Upon approval of the faculty supervisor, the student will research the case/question through specialized systematic review of the literature or a research project following an evidence-based practice approach. The student will deliver a specialized presentation on the advanced approaches to answering the complex case/question. The presentation will be made before an audience of students, faculty, and practitioners. Students have to participate in prescribing skills assessment as part of this course.