UMH - EXTERNAL PRACTICES II

EXTERNAL PRACTICES II

Course

Code: 1719

Degree: Bachelor's in Pharmacy

Faculty of Pharmacy

Year: Year 5 of Bachelor's in Pharmacy

Semester: Spring

Type: Internships

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Lecture: 0

Laboratory: 6

Hours: 296.25

Directed: 206.2

Shared: 90

Autonomous: 0

Subject matter: External Practice

Module: External Practice and Final Degree Project

Department: Engineering

Area: PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Supervised training period at pharmacies and hospital pharmacy services.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
LOPEZ PINTOR, ELSA	■	■	■
NAVARRO RUIZ, ANDRES			■
GARCIA MONSALVE, ANA			■
JIMENEZ PULIDO, INMACULADA			■
MATOSES CHIRIVELLA, MARIA CARMEN			■
MURCIA LOPEZ, ANA CRISTINA			■

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Understand the structure and function of the human body at different stages of development.
Know the economic, cultural, and social factors affecting the health sciences professions, as well as the economic, ethical, and social implications of professional decisions.
Identify the differences between normal human body function and its changes and determine the impact from demographic, environmental, social, and cultural determinants of the health of a population.
Apply the professional code of ethics considering user rights and existing legislation.
Ability to analyze, evaluate, and assess individual and group situations, identify problems, interpret data, and formulate solutions to individual and/or group problems.
Assess information critically and apply the scientific method to improve the profession.
Establish good interpersonal communication to address the community you work with and the individuals you relate to effectively and with empathy.
Be capable of working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and leading multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to update, consolidate, and integrate new knowledge to improve the profession using continuous self-learning techniques and critical analysis.
Capability to use and promote innovation and creativity to solve professional problems.

Specific competencies

Know how to apply the scientific method and acquire skills to handle legislation, information sources, bibliographies, the development of protocols, and other aspects considered necessary for the design and critical assessment of preclinical and clinical trials.
Design, prepare, supply, and dispense medicines and other health products of interest.
Provide therapeutic counseling in pharmacotherapy and diet therapy, as well as within the nutritional and food fields at establishments providing services.
Promote the rational use of medicines and health products, as well as acquire basic knowledge in clinical management, health economics, and efficient use of health resources.
Identify, evaluate, and assess the problems related with drugs and medicines, as well as participate in pharmacovigilance activities.
Perform activities of clinical and social pharmacy, following the cycle of pharmaceutical care.
Intervene in health promotion activities and disease prevention for the individual, family, and community with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary vision of the health-disease process.
Develop communication and information skills, both oral and written, to deal with patients and users at the center where you work professionally. Promote work capabilities and collaboration in multidisciplinary teams and those related with other health professionals.
Know the ethical and deontological principles in terms of the legal, regulatory, and administrative provisions governing the profession, understanding the ethical implications of health in a changing social context.
Recognize your own limitations and the need to maintain and update professional skills, placing special emphasis on self-learning of new knowledge based on available scientific evidence.

Professional competencies

Know, understand, and apply legal, social, and economic conditions related with the health field and in particular with medication.
Understand ethical and deontological principles and act according to the laws, regulations, and administrative provisions that govern professional practice with other health professionals, acquiring teamwork skills.
Understand and apply management techniques in all pharmacy activities.
Possess basic knowledge of the Spanish National Health System, of health legislation in general, and that specifically related with medication, health products, and pharmaceutical care.
Organize and manage the operations of a pharmacy.
Understand the operation and management of a hospital or primary care pharmacy, including the staff working in them.
Manage medications.
Rational conservation, custody, dispensing, and distribution of medication and other pharmaceutical products.
Develop master formulas and medicinal preparations.
Provide pharmaceutical care to patients.
Perform pharmacovigilance.
Perform the billing for a community pharmacy, if applicable.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

01To know the physical structure of the SFH, the characteristics and minimum value in infrastructures of each one of the areas that compose it
02To know the organization chart of the SFH and the functions of the personnel assigned to it
03To know the operation of the SFH, organization of guards and schedules
04Be able to handle the SFH management software and stock control, expiration and other applications tools
05To know the State and Autonomous Normative Framework of the SFH and to be able to answer questions of related basic legislation
06Know and respect the ethical principles of the Pharmaceutical Deontological code and bioethics, and be able to apply them to the professional day to day
07Know and be able to handle the bibliography of compulsory tenure and other sources of useful information in a SFH
08Know, list and be able to identify, differentiate and manage the medicines, sanitary products, raw materials and other SFH products
09To be able to be updated of the news that happen in the pharmaceutical world during the stays: Normative Projects, new norms, medicines or current topics
010Know and be able to actively participate in the preparation of orders, reception, conservation and control of expiration of medicines and sanitary products, and handle associated documentation
011Know the organization of the SFH stores and be able to participate in the review of the same
012Know and be able to apply the basic concepts in the review of orders, management of purchases and Stock applied to the SFH
013Know the methodology and procedure, and be able to intervene in any study of drug selection
014To know and apply the regulations and methodology of the dispensation of medicines in the hospital area, and be able to complete the documents associated with the dispensing of medicines, such as the cookbook or the accounting book of narcotics
015To be able to participate in the elaboration of some protocol of use of medicines.
016Be able to interpret and validate medical prescriptions and make pharmaceutical intervention reports.
017To know the distribution of the medication in the cars of Sisytemas Unidosis and to be able to Review medication and returns in DU, before its dispensation.
018Be able to participate in the management of requests for compassionate use ..
019Participate in the management of clinical trials and know how to handle the associated documentation
020Being able to participate in the review of first aid kits and / or carts
021Know the Pharmacovigilance System and be able to put in place mechanisms for reporting adverse reactions
022To know the Norms of Correct Elaboration and Quality Control of FM and PO and to be able to actively participate in the elaboration and quality control of FM and PO in the pharmaceutical unit
023Know the different types of artificial nutrition and be able to participate in the design, development, monitoring and evaluation of the nutritional status of patients
024To know techniques and precautions in the manipulation of cytotoxic agents and to be able to participate under supervision in the validation of the prescriptions and their elaboration
025Know the functioning of a pharmacokinetic unit and be able to perform some pharmacokinetic report

Teaching units

Association between objectives and units

Objective/Unit	U1	U2	U3	U4	U5
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
010
011
012
013
014
015
016
017
018
019
020
021
022
023
024
025

Schedule

Week	Directed hours	Shared hours	Total hours
1	4	6	10
2	4	6	10
3	4	6	10
4	4	6	10
5	4	6	10
6	4	6	10
7	4	6	10
8	4	6	10
9	4	6	10
10	4	6	10
11	4	6	10
12	4	6	10
13	4	6	10
14	4	6	10
15	4	6	10

Basic bibliography

Villa Alcázar, Luis F. "Medimecum guía de terapia farmacológica /". Madrid Adis 2013.

Complementary bibliography

Herrera Carranza, Joaquín. "Manual de farmacia clínica y atención farmacéutica". Madrid [etc.] Elsevier D.L. 2003.
"Documento de Consenso FORO de Atención Farmacéutica". Consejo General de Colegios oficiales de Farmacéuticos.

Software

BOTPLUS

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Project-based learning: Realization of a project to solve a problem, applying acquired learning and promoting abilities related to planning, design, performing activities, and reaching conclusions.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

The final evaluation of the student will be based on the following grades:

1. Memory of the work done: 30%. The student must do a personal (original) writing of the work done during the practices, following the script of the course syllabus and the guidelines of the person responsible for the subject. In addition, it must contain a last section where the student's personal opinion on the practices performed is expressed.

This work must be delivered 15 DAYS BEFORE the final exam of the subject.

It will contain 30% of the final grade.

2. Teaching activities and assignments during the course: 20%

Throughout the course, there will be teaching activities and / or evaluable complementary work related to the acquisition of competences of the subject. The performance of these evaluable activities and their delivery in time and form will constitute up to 20% of the final grade.

NOTE: Students who complete the 6-month period in a Hospital Pharmacy Service are included in their rotation, this work, directed by the assigned tutor in the Hospital where the stays are held. In this case, unless indicated otherwise, this work will be delivered 15 DAYS BEFORE the final exam of the subject.

3. Tutor evaluation: 20% The tutor will continuously evaluate the student's learning during the internship period that will be translated at the end of the internship period on the standardized evaluation form.

4. Final exam
The student will be examined, at the end of the 6 months of stays, of the knowledge / skills acquired in the Stays and of the content of the teaching activities, Seminars and / or evaluable work carried out in this regard.

Type of exam: The exam will be test type and / or short questions. It will be considered passed when obtaining a score equal or superior to five.

FINAL QUALIFICATION: The final mark, from 0 to 10 points, will be obtained from the weighted sum of each of the notes obtained in the previous sections.

Each part must be approved separately.

SUSPENSION COURSE
Suspicion final exam: Students who have not passed the exam but the rest of evaluable activities, will only have to repeat the final exam, being entitled to a second examination exam, which will be:
Suspension of the Period January to July: in September, in extraordinary convocation.
Suspended from the period from July to January: in July, in an extraordinary convocation, which coincides in date with the regular final examination of students from the period from January to July of the subsequent convocation.

Students who suspend the extraordinary call must complete the course again in an integral manner.

Suspended full period of stays: Students who have not successfully completed the period of stay, for any circumstance, will have to repeat the subject in full, having to re-enroll in a new period, performing the same procedures as the first time.

NOTE: Failure to comply with the rules of attendance of the subject will make it impossible to evaluate the same, and the student should repeat the subject in a later period.

The regulations require the completion of six months of stays. If, during the period, any unforeseen circumstances (accident, illness, etc.) prevented the student from going to the school for a period exceeding fifteen days, the student must complete the period in another call.

For more information: Consult the web of the subject and download Normativa:

https://sites.google.com/a/goumh.umh.es/farmacred/

Academics: EXTERNAL PRACTICES II