FARM4100 – Personalised Drug Therapy
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The course will provide students with competence regarding complex pharmacotherapy, exemplified by patients in the extremes of life (i.e. children and the elderly) and patients with multi morbidities. In addition, the course will provide students with competence regarding causes of individual variability in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, efficacy and safety of drugs, pharmaceutical issues on fluid therapy and nutrition, and personalised administration of drugs. The course will also provide students with experience with interprofessional collaboration.
Learning outcome
After completing the course:
- you can describe various contributors to individual variability in pharmacokinetics and - dynamics, especially how this?might deviate in children and the elderly compared to the standard population, and the impact of this on pharmacotherapy for these patients.
- you can describe clinical challenges in the treatment of multi morbid patients.
- you can describe situations in which personalised administration of drugs might be relevant, and challenges in connection to such administration, including pharmaceutical issues on fluid therapy and nutrition.
- you can, in collaboration with other students, prepare and present proposals for treatment optimisation for patient cases.
- you will have knowledge about and understand your own and other's roles and responsibilities in an interprofessional team, and can reflect on the value of interprofessional collaboration within health care.
- you will have insight into data protection requirements regarding patient data, e.g. in medical records, medication charts and the national?Summary Care Record.
Admission to the course
The course is only available to students enrolled at the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
- FARM1100 – Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- FARM1110 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 1
- FARM1120 – Social Pharmacy
- FARM1130 – Pharmaceutically Based Organic Chemistry
- FARM1140 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 2
- FARM1150 – Pharmaceutical Based Biochemistry
- FARM2100 – Medicinal Chemistry
- FARM2110 – Pharmacotherapy 1
- FARM2120 – Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
- FARM2130 – Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry
- FARM2140 – Pharmaceutical Microbiology
- FARM2150 – Formulation of Drugs and Quality Assurance in Drug Production
- FARM3100 – Pharmacognosy
- FARM3110 – Pharmacotherapy 2
- FARM3120 – Medicine Use and Public Health
- completed and approved pharmacy practice period in FARM3130 – Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE)
- passed the compulsory HSE-courses HMS0501 – Safety and Physical Environment, HMS0502 – Positive Learning Environment, HMS0503 – Laboratory Safety, HMS0506 – Patient Clinic Safety and HMS0507 – Fire Safety required for students at the 5-year Master`s Programme in Pharmacy.
Course exemptions:?Laws and regulations describing the overall learning outcome regulate the Pharmacy Programme. Exemptions are only granted if all learning outcomes in the course are covered.
Teaching
Lectures and student active teaching, including seminars, skill training and interprofessional education/ internship. Participation at skill training sessions and participation in interprofessional education/internships (SamPraks) are compulsory. In total there is up to 50 hours of compulsory sessions.
- 30 hours lectures
- 60 hours student-active teaching
Several versions of interprofessional education (SamPraks) will be offered, with a restricted number of spots per category. You will find more information about SamPraks here (only in Norwegian): SamPraks - Sammen i praksis - SamPraks - Sammen i praksis (uio.no).?Admittance will be regulated through an application process administrated by SamPraks. If there are more applicants to one category than available spots, the spots will be distributed by a database administering the composition of student groups in SamPraks.
For participation in versions of SamPraks that involve direct contact with patients the students must have filled in declarations forms for MRSA and tuberculosis carriership, as well as submit a police certificate (politiattest) as described in the first paragraph of section 5-4 of Helse- og omsorgstjenesteloven (only in Norwegian).?
Compulsory participation in the course must be completed and compulsory submissions must be approved to pass the exam.?Read more about what applies in the event of absence from compulsory activities.
As?the?teaching involves laboratory and/or field work, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance.?Read about your insurance cover as a student.
Access to teaching:?A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Compulsory participation and approved assignments are valid for 3 years.
Examination
Oral exam with 1 hour for preparations and 40 minutes examination. The oral exam counts 100 % of final grade.
This course has compulsory assignments that must be approved before you can sit the finale exam.
Examination support material
Students may use any aids they require, but cooperation or communication with others are not allowed during the exam.
Language of examination
The examination text is given in Norwegian. You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- How to use AI as a student
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.