On completion of the unit the student, in the context of cardiovascular disease, should be able to:

• Demonstrate how to improve pharmaceutical care for patients
• Provide effective presentations
• Respond appropriately to simple medicines information queries
• Demonstrate how to perform medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital
• Provide appropriate medicines related advice to patients in a suitable manner
• Review therapy and prepare pharmaceutical care plans
• Constructs effective approaches for improving adherence

This unit will include:

Workshops, lectures and hospital placements corresponding to 8 ECTS

Assessment will be in three parts, all of which must be passed to pass the course. The pass mark for all parts is 60%.

Part 1: Portfolio, which includes placement documentation, workshops and write ups, reflections on placements, and different clinical skills, reflective essay and a mini objective structured clinical examination. The portfolio must be handed in one week before the written exam.

Part 2:

2 hours: OSCE-exam

Part 3:

Written exam, 2 hours, which includes:

-1 hour, open book exam to include pharmaceutical care plan

-1 hour, 30 multiple choice questions based on scenarios (Closed book exam, no support materials allowed)

Part 2 and 3 will be completed on the same day.

If you fail one of both parts of the exam, you must re-sit the part(s) you did not pass, including all the elements of that part(s).