Objectives
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Describe patient’s journey through acute illness and transition processes between care settings
2. Perform patient assessment, which includes individual history-taking
3. Draft pharmaceutical care plans, through performing pharmacotherapy work-up and identifying patient-specific care goals and plan
4. Communicate (verbal/written) care plan to patient and/or recommendations to health care professionals
5. Perform necessary documentation of patient encounter and care plan
6. Conduct clinical case presentations
Who Should Attend
Pharmacy - direct community-based patient-care work
Entry Requirements
The candidate must have / be:
(1) Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (with or without Honours classification) or an equivalent qualification
(2) Registered pharmacists with the Singapore Pharmacy Council (or overseas equivalent), and holding a current and valid practicing certificate
(3) at least 2 years of working experience as a patient-care pharmacist post pre-registration training (preferably)
(4) Completion of PR5134 Advanced Skills in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent training/work experience
Class Schedule
The attachment schedule for experiential learning will be dependent on the choice of host institution by the course candidate. The course coordinator will reach out to successfully registered course candidates for discussion and confirmation of the attachment site and schedule.
Lesson Delivery
a) Class Facilitated Training - 2.5 hours
b) Supervised Field Training - 20 hours
c) Practical Training - 10 hours
d) Synchronous e-Learning - 5 hours
e) Assessment - 15.5 hours
