Monash University

Leader: Mr Greg Duncan

Offered

Parkville First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

Counselling and communications. Patient compliance. Patient education. Introduction to public health. Systematic patient care. Health literacy. Standards and competencies.

Objectives

Students will develop an:

• Understanding of effective communication with patients and prescribers; health literacy; the problems of medication non-compliance and means of overcoming them; the role of the pharmacist in patient education; illness behaviour, normal and abnormal; the placebo effect and how it relates to pharmacy practice;

the concepts of self role and sick role; systematic care of patients including of pharmaceutical care; mpetencies and standards in professional pharmacy.

• Ability in the areas of accessing information; written and oral communication; patient counselling; problem-solving in clinically oriented situations; creating, maintaining and utilising individual patient records.

• Appreciation of the relationships existing between drugs, medicines, patients and society; and the role of the pharmacist in patient care.

Assessment

Written examination: 80% (3 hours), tutorial assessment (online)

Contact hours

18 lectures over 12 weeks; 5 x 3hr tutorials

Prerequisites

VCP1011 or VCP1012