Knowledge

The student is able to:

• Differentiate between minor and major illnesses
• Select the most appropriate course of action including selection of appropriate therapy
• Describe and recommend appropriate pharmaceutical therapy for the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease

Skills

The student is able to:

• Provide effective presentations
• Effectively reflect on experiential learning to identify future learning needs

General Competence

The student is able to:

• Demonstrate how to improve pharmaceutical care for patients
• Demonstrate how to perform medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital
• Respond appropriately to simple medicines information queries
• 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, seminars, team based learning, student led presentations and hospital placements corresponding to 8 ECTS

• 14 hours lectures
• 12 hours workshops
• 12 hours of team based learning
• 8 hours of student led presentations
• 4 hours of formative assessment
• 25 hours placements
• 35 hours self-directed learning

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, with reflective essay. The portfolio must be handed in on the last exam day.

Part 2:

30 minutes: 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)

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).

The students evaluate the teaching according to the Quality Assurance System at the University of Bergen