Semester – 1 Courses
DP 610-1: Pharmacotherapy: Internal Medicine
The Internal medicine focuses on the management of conditions commonly encountered in internal medicine. The objectives of the course in internal medicine are to provide the student with a good grounding in this clinical area.
DP 610-2: Pharmacotherapy: Cardiology
This specialization course covers the management of cardiac diseases. It includes pharmacotherapy in the management of complex cardiovascular cases. The practice approaches and prepares the students to provide optimal cardiac care.
DP 610-3: Pharmacotherapy: Infectious Diseases
This course covers the management of infectious diseases. It includes pharmacotherapy in the management of common infection cases. The course approaches and prepares the students to provide optimal patient care for patients with infectious diseases.
DP 610-4: Pharmacotherapy: Oncology
This course covers the specialized management of oncology diseases. It includes advanced and specialized pharmacotherapy in the management of complex cancer cases. The approach is to prepare students to provide advanced oncology care.
DP 611: Professional Skills
This course trains students to develop professional skills related to pharmacy practice. Skills expected to develop with this course are complementary to the topics in Pharmacotherapy.
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 clinical outcomes are addressed.
DP 613: Pharmacy Research, Evaluation and Presentation (PREP)
This is a course on Pharmacy practice research methodologies, Literature evaluation, applied biostatistics, and presentation of research data. It includes detailed methods of qualitative and quantitative research designs. The critical appraisal methods and supporting tools/guidelines. The application of inferential and descriptive statistics in research project. Also providing skills on research data presentation.
DP 614: UAE healthcare system
This course is designed to overview features of the healthcare system in the United Arab Emirates. Transformation in healthcare are discussed. The course also covers a comprehensive overview of key features of public health and disease prevention. It also explains different roles of healthcare team members.
DP 615: Interpretation of Laboratory Data
This course is an application to the fundamentals of interpreting laboratory test results that will illustrate how the results of a particular laboratory test should be interpreted, and allow students make accurate and critical diagnostic decisions. It provides pharmacy students with essential information on common laboratory tests used to screen for or diagnose disease, monitor the effectiveness and safety of treatment, or assess disease severity. Each laboratory test is described in terms of its clinical uses and relation to the pathophysiology of the disease.
DP 616: Clinical Nutrition and Diet Therapy
This course is designed to explore the scope of clinical nutrition and diet therapy for pharmacists. The rationale of using various nutrition and diet therapy will be covered with their need, advantages, disadvantages, complications and monitoring parameters.
DP 617-1: Genetics and Clinical Immunology
This course discusses the principles of human genetics with application to the study of biological function and the genetic basis of common inherited disorders. Also, the course explores the basic principles of host defense against pathogens, including aspects of innate and adaptive immunity, and immune evasion strategies. The mechanisms of antibody formation and molecular aspects of cellular immunity, including T and B cell interactions and lymphocyte memory formation, will be emphasized, and connections to modern medicine will be highlighted. In addition, the course covers autoimmune, allergic and immunodeficiency diseases, as well as new advances in interventional and clinical immunology and the molecular and genetic basis of immunologically-mediated diseases.
DP 617-2: Pharmacoeconomics
This course covers the economic, clinical, and humanistic aspects of healthcare interventions, reflecting on health technology assessments. The course explains the methods to measure costs and outcomes in micro (clinical) and macro (administrative) economic levels. Different stakeholder perspectives and economic frameworks for the evaluation and interpretation of pharmacoeconomic analyses become center part of this course. Pharmacoeconomic modelling is also discussed.
DP 617-3: Pharmacy Management
This course covers essential pharmacy practice managerial skills including personnel and product management, addressing workplace conflict, continuous quality improvement, and leadership. The course places special emphasis on how to receive and respond to different types of patients in a pharmacy. The course builds upon these skills in the development of a business plan to implement an innovative pharmacy service.
DP 617-4: Antimicrobial Stewardship
This course covers innovative and current best practice use of antimicrobial agents in advanced and complex clinical conditions. Evaluation of antimicrobial use at prescriber, pharmacist, and nurse levels to match with best practices. It also includes approaches to develop methods to improve rational utilization of antimicrobials.
Semester – 2 Courses
DP 620: System-Based Care & Population Health
This course reviews the current components of system-based care and population health. This course analyzes the roles and responsibilities of each professional and healthcare program and how they coexist as part of the current health care practice. Quality of health care delivery as specific to different populations is also evaluated. Emphasis will be on preparing clinical pharmacists to implement population-specific intervention plans which will influence health outcomes, health determinants and policies.
DP 621: Prescribing skills
This course intends to enhance the students’ skills of prescribing, medications monitoring, communication with patients and healthcare professionals, data interpretation, and pharmaceutical calculations. The course will prepare the students for the PSA exam.
DP 622: Advanced Pharmacotherapy-1
This course covers advanced pharmacotherapy knowledge and skills to improve patient outcomes through activities. The learning happens with studying complex clinical cases. It enables students to evaluate and recommend advanced pharmacotherapy decisions.
DP 623: Advanced Pharmacotherapy-2
This course covers pharmacotherapy topics not covered in DPH522: Advanced Pharmacotherapy 1. This course covers advanced pharmacotherapy knowledge and skills to improve patient outcomes through activities. The learning happens with studying complex clinical cases. It enables students to evaluate and recommend advanced pharmacotherapy decisions.
DP 624: Complex Case discussion
This course is designed to enhance clinical training skills in clinical specialties. Students in this course will have an opportunity to obtain 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. Throughout the semester, students participate in clinical case discussions in order to professionally apply their advanced pharmacotherapy knowledge.
DP 625: Pharmacist-led Clinics
This course intends to highlight the role of pharmacist in leading ambulatory care clinics, explore the different 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 knowledge of drugs using in sports by the athletes and other person. It studies the 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 explore the perspectives of the role of Athlete Support Personnel.
DP 626-2: Pharmacy Elective-1 – Parenteral Nutrition
This course is designed to explore the scope of clinical problems related to parenteral nutrition and intravenous therapy. Students will be taught the rationale of using various 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 actively engage the pharmacy student with select 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 rationale of using various therapies on the selected diseases on the basis advantages, disadvantages, complications and monitoring parameters.
DP 627-2: Pharmacy Elective-2; Clinical Trials
The course covers essentials of clinical research especially the clinical trials. It overviews good clinical practices on appropriate conductance of clinical trials with examples. Landmark clinical trials are discussed to ensure how to adapt clinical practice based on the findings.
Year – 2 Rotations
DP 630R: Ambulatory Care
This course empowers students to practice in ambulatory care set up at an advanced level. It focuses on specialized patient care by assisting them in every step of the visit. Evaluate and improvise the pharmacists’ care process model at ambulatory care setting. It is a mandatory rotation.
DP 631R: Critical Care
This rotation empowers students to 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 conditions commonly encountered in internal medicine. The objectives of the experience in the Internal Medicine are to provide the APPE student with a good grounding in the database and skills of internal medicine. Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process is practiced in this rotation to improve patient care. Demonstration of leadership, advocacy, and innovation in improving the services are practiced. This is a mandatory rotation.
DP 633R: Infectious Diseases
This concentration rotation facilitates practice opportunities to abilities gained from concentration courses in infectious diseases. The focus of this training is to develop specialized practice in patients with even advanced and complex infectious disease conditions. A detaied search in the broad area 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 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 broad 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 pharmacotherapeutic management of geriatric patients in direct patient care. The activities of the experience are to build upon abilities acquired from didactic learning and introductory pharmacy practice experience to provide services to old patients. This is an elective rotation.
DP 642R: Oncology
This an advanced rotation facilitates practice opportunities to abilities in oncology. The focus of this training is to develop specialized practice in patients with even advanced and complex conditions that require cancer therapy. A detailed search in the broad 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 a working experience on applying principles of pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy issues related to infants and children. The rotation prepares students to provide 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, 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 pharmacotherapeutic management of chronic conditions. Pharmacists’ patient care process in selected 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 disease specific pharmacy services that addresses patient-centered treatment efficiency, safety and cost -efficacy. This is an elective rotation.
DP 645: Clinical Seminar
This course is designed as a companion to all APPE experiences. During APPE, the student will identify a case/question that needs to be researched. Upon approval of the faculty supervisor, the student will research the case/question through systematic review of the literature following an evidence based practice approach. The student will deliver a presentation on the approach to answering the case/question. The presentation will be made before an audience of students, faculty, and practitioners.