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Presentation
Presentation
The curricular unit of Pharmacotherapy will address the therapeutic schemes applied in the most prevalent pathologies in clinical practice, based on clinical guidelines. Thus, it is intended that students master the names of the most relevant active ingredients for the practice of the pharmaceutical profession and associate them with their therapeutic indication. The student should acquire integrated knowledge of the concepts of dosage, compliance, drug associations and interactions, contraindications and therapeutic rationality. This unit aims to empower students with knowledge and attitudes that lead to obtaining the most favorable risk / benefit relationships arising from the selection and use of medicines in a real-life setting.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor; Master Degree | Trimestral | 5
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
4 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT477-4553
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
Cardiovascular diseases 1.1 Hypertension 1.2 Heart failure 1.3 Cerebro-vascular diseases and peripheral vascular disease 1.4 Dyslipidemia 1.5 Anemia Endocrinology 2.1 Diabetes mellitus 2.2 Thyroid dysfunction 2.3 Menopause 2.4 Hormonal contraception Respiratory diseases 3.1 Asthma 3.2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Gastrointestinal diseases 4.1 Peptic ulcers 4.2 Inflammatory bowel diseases Genito-urinary diseases 5.1 Benign prostatic hyperplasia 5.2 Urinary incontinence Psychiatry and Neurology 6.1 Anxiety disorders 6.2 Psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder and depression Rheumatology 7.1 Rheumatoid arthritis 7.2 Osteoporosis 7.3 Gout Antimicrobials 8.1 Bacterial, parasitic, fungal and viral infections.
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Objectives
Objectives
The Pharmacotherapy course aims to provide students with knowledge and attitudes that lead to the achievement of the most favourable risk/benefit relationship when selecting and using medicines. The measures and therapeutic schemes to be applied in diseases of higher prevalence in clinical practice will be addressed, supported on standards of clinical practice. It is expected that at the end of this course students will be able to: Identify drugs and their therapeutic indication; Integrate knowledge of the concepts of dosage, adherence, associations and drug interactions, contraindications and therapeutic rationality Know the standards of clinical practice for the various pathologies addressed Advise clinicians on alternative therapies, considering the benefit/risk ratio of the prescribed therapies Mastering sources of information on medicines, to update and enable the conduct of reviews of medicines.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
The lectures will be mostly expository, using clinical case examples to illustrate the therapeutic choices. In practical classes, problem-based learning will be used whenever possible and appropriate, encouraging students to discuss the different therapeutic alternatives for the cases presented (with the teacher's guidance) in class. As part of the course assessment, students will develop a monograph to support a clinical situation not covered in the core content of the course, in order to develop their problem-solving skills by consulting the most appropriate literature. This element includes the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. In addition, for the assessment of the course, students will be encouraged to create a set of multiple-choice questions that may be included in one of the tests to be taken during the term.
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References
References
INFARMED (2021). INFOMED - Base de dados de medicamentos de uso humano. (https://extranet.infarmed.pt/INFOMED-fo/index.xhtml) INFARMED (2021). Prontuário Terapêutico Online. (https://app10.infarmed.pt/prontuario/index.php) Guidelines das Sociedades da Especialidade (portuguesas, europeias e americanas) Alldredge, B., Corelli, R., Ernst, M.; Jr, J. G., Jacobson, P.; Kradjan, W., Williams, B. (2012). Koda-Kimble and Young’s Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs . (Wolters Kluwer, Ed.) (10th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. Brunton, L. (2011). Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. In Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (12th ed., pp. 417). Ordem dos Farmacêuticos (2011). Normas de Orientação Terapêutica
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
