Postgraduate - UnitPGC5010 - Infectious diseases pharmacotherapy

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Offered	Parkville First semester 2014 (Off-campus) Parkville Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Ms Sharmila Khumra

Notes

Previously coded PGC6010
For postgraduate coursework pharmacy discontinuation dates, please see http://www.pharm.monash.edu.au/students/pg-coursework/unit-discontinuation-dates.html

Quota applies

This unit is quota restricted. Selection is on a first-in, first enrolled basis. For more information please contact the faculty at http://monash.edu/pharm/future/contact/

Synopsis

This unit will provide a broad overview or introduction to the treatment and management of infectious diseases. The focus will be on common infections seen in community and hospital settings, principles of microbiology and infectious diseases, antimicrobial use, and antimicrobial stewardship. The broad unit objectives are for students to develop and apply infectious diseases and antimicrobial use knowledge and skills in the care of patients, especially those with infections. These may be patients in the community or hospital settings. The knowledge and skills developed will be at a general level rather than at the level required for a specialist infectious diseases pharmacist.

Outcomes

On completion of the unit students will be able to:

Prepare and analyse treatment plans that optimise the use of anti-infectives.
Recommend approaches to manage patients requiring anti-infective therapies.
Demonstrate critical thinking, communication skills relevant to peers and patients and problem-solving, with a focus on infectious diseases related and anti-infectives related topics.

Assessment

Assignment 1: 25%
Assignment 2: 25%
Contribution to on-line discussions: 30%
Submission of a learning portfolio: 20% (hurdle)

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Sharmila Khumra

Workload requirements

Students are expected to allow 10-12 hours per week over the semester in study time.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Clinical pharmacy
Pharmacy practice

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites however it is preferable for students to have completed PGC5001 Evidence based practice prior to enrolling into this unit.

Prohibitions

This unit cannot be taken with PGC5003 Patient data and pharmacotherapy 2 without prior approval from the relevant Course Director as there is significant overlap in content.