Pharmacy Practice

Section 1: The Patient<br>1. Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness<br>2. Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines<br>3. Communication skills for pharmacists and their team<br>4. Consent<br>5. History Taking/ Gathering Information<br>6. Concordance<br>7. Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer<br><br>Section 2: The Medicine<br>8. Control of medicines<br>9. The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine<br>10. Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics<br>11. Formularies in pharmacy practice<br>12. Complementary and alternative medicines<br>13. Using calculations in pharmacy practice<br>14. Veterinary pharmacy<br><br>Section 3: The Medicine Formulation<br>15. Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)<br>16. Oral unit dosage forms<br>17. Packaging<br>18. Solutions<br>19. Suspensions<br>20. Emulsions<br>21. External preparations<br>22. Suppositories and pessaries<br>23. Powders and granules<br><br>Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product<br>24. Production of sterile products<br>25. Parenteral products<br>26. Opthalmic products<br>27. Inhaled products<br>28. Parenteral nutrition and dialysis<br>29. Radiopharmacy<br>30. Specialized services<br>31. Appliances<br><br>Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process<br>32. Clinical governance<br>33. Risk management<br>34. Standard operating procedures<br>35. Audit<br>36. Information retrieval in pharmacy practice<br>37. Control of health professionals and their staff<br>38. Continuing professional development and revalidation<br><br>Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare<br>39. The role of pharmacy in healthcare<br>40. Ethics – the theory<br>41. Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas<br>42. Public health<br>43. Structure and organization of pharmacy<br>44. Intra- and inter-professional working<br><br>Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond<br>45. The prescription<br>46. Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access<br>47. Routes of administration and dosage forms<br>48. Labelling of dispensed medicines<br>49. Monitoring the patient<br>50. The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation<br>51. Public health and pharmacy interventions<br>52. Substance use and misuse