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Dec 18, 2024
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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
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MPAS 624 - Clinical Therapeutics IV 1.00 credit hours Clinical therapeutics IV is the fourth in a series designed to develop the knowledge about the principles and practices of pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics; it is delivered synchronously with the Bridge Course that prepares students for their clinical year. This course will build on Clinical Therapeutics I-III with special focus on the review of common pharmacotherapies used in specific rotations, as well as practice with parmacologic patient counseling and inpatient and outpatient prescribing. The principles of patient safety, specifically related to altered pharmacodynamic/kinetic/genetic properties related to age, ethnicity as well as cost/benefit of pharmacological interventions will be reviewed with each drug class and with commonly prescribed medications in primary care. Emphasis will be placed on the cost/benefit of pharmacological interventions and interpretation of the medical literature using principles of evidence-based medicine in pharmacologic management of disease.
Prerequisite(s): MPAS 503 , MPAS 513 , MPAS 523 , MPAS 535 , MPAS 543 , MPAS 552 , MPAS 562 .
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