Overview

Module 4: Medication Therapy Management and Patient Education

Sessions Objectives

1. Comprehensive Medication Management – CMM and Medication Therapy Management

• Know more about medication therapy problems.
• Discuss the role of pharmacist in CMM.
• Define the CMM and how it is delivered.
• Understand the Barriers of CMM.
• Define the concept of medication adherence
• Identify potential barriers to adherence
• Define the concept of medication therapy management
• Recognize the role of pharmacists in improving medication adherence and improving the health care outcomes

2. General Guidelines for Patient Counseling

• Learn about Patient Counseling History & Definition
• Discuss Pharmacist and patient roles
• Learn more about Patient Counseling Steps
• Determine the useful links The Concept of patient-centeredness
• Steps during patient Counselling – Main Concepts?
• Topics commonly covered include.

3. Communication with CNS Mental Health Patients

By the end of this session, you will learn about:

• Depression treatment options and how to give counselling to your patient.
• Insomnia triggers and different treatment strategies.
• Anxiety treatment options and important information to give your patient.
• Headache and Migraine. different types, treatments, prevention strategies.

4. OTC Policy and Guidelines | Pharmacist as an OTC Prescriber

• Differentiate between prescription Vs. OTC drugs
• Know more about the OTC Policy and Guidelines among the global
• Understand the OTC Medication Safety Tips (Patient & Pharmacist)
• Learn how to ensure the safety of OTC products
• Learn how to teach patients “Medicines in My Home (MIMH)”
• Provide the List of OTC among the global, Educational Resources: OTC Medication, and Toolkits.
• Discuss the Pharmacist Role for Proper Patient Assessment AND OTC Selection.
• Discuss how Pharmacists maintain the proper selection and use of OTC products.
• Learn the Effective Practice of OTC Counseling
• Determine the 7 Steps to Consider in Clinical Reasoning
• Illustrate the OTC Differential Diagnosis – An Example
• Define How Pharmacist Become a Prescriber for OTC Medications in different disease specialties.
• Understand the systematic way of dealing with OTC Medications.

5. Top symptoms in the pharmacy Migraine and Headache

• Discuss the types and pathophysiology of headache.
• Determine the treatment approaches of migraine and headache.
• Evaluate the OTC medications that used in the management of headache.
• Describe important patient counseling key points needed to educate the patient.
• Evaluate the role of pharmacist on patients with headache and migraine.

6. Types of Vitamins and selection between them

• Understand the definition and types of vitamins.
• Define each type of vitamins, sources, deficiency, and toxicity.
• Determine how to maintain the best use of vitamins.
• Describe the role of pharmacist in use and recommendation of vitamins
• Illustrate how pharmacist promote vitamin patient counseling
• Discuss some case studies and how to use the proper approach in vitamin use.

7. Role of Pharmacist in Clinical Pharmacokinetic Monitoring

• Discuss the primary goal of pharmacokinetics.
• Determine the role of pharmacists in pharmacokinetics
• Define the PK responsibility of pharmacist
• Provide the steps of TDM needed for pharmacists
• Discuss FADIC Clinical Guide to apply pharmacokinetics
• Illustrate the PK training packet for pharmacists

8. Role of Pharmacist-led Pharmacotherapy

• Collaborates with other health professionals to make therapeutic decisions such as drug and drug product selection, therapeutic drug monitoring, and drug dosing.
• Participates in the planning and development of patient treatment.
• Investigates therapeutic alternatives and recommends or initiates management of patient-related problems based on interpretation of literature & clinical experience.
• Communicates the results of these investigations to health care practitioners in a manner appropriate to the training, skill, and need of that health professional.
• Assists in the management, monitoring, and modification of drug therapy in patients with chronic disease.
• Reviews patient records and orders regarding drug therapy and recommends and initiates changes as appropriate.

9. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics for Clinician

• Describe Main Ideas of pharmacokinetics (PK) for Clinician and the clinical application of PK parameters in clinical practice.
• Describe physiologic factors and disease states that affect drug disposition.
• Describe pharmacodynamics (PD) and how to apply its principles to clinical practice.

10. UK Report for 2050 of Antimicrobial Resistance and Need for Antimicrobial Stewardship

• Learn about the impact of antimicrobial resistance on the world’s economy if the problem is not tackled.
• Learn How we can change our use of antimicrobial drugs to reduce the rise of resistance in genetics, genomics and computer science.
• Learn How we can boost the development of new antimicrobial drugs.
• Learn about the potential for alternative therapies to disrupt the rise in resistance.
• Learn about the need for coherent international action that spans drugs regulation, and drugs use

11. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection 

• Design an appropriate treatment regimen for a patient with a Rhinosinusitis.
• Develop a definitive treatment plan for management of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis.
• Determine the treatment plan Influenza and Difference between Influenza and Cold.

12. Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

• Distinguish between the two main types of lower respiratory tract infection.
• Distinguish differences in 2005–2016 treatment guidelines for hospital-acquired pneumonia.
• Design an empiric treatment, according to type and severity of lower respiratory tract infection, for patients in the
  inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Justify the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program in managing lower respiratory tract infections.

13. Urinary Tract Infection

• Describe and define Urinary tract infections associated with the hospital setting
• Describe the epidemiology, microbiology, and treatment of the following:
  o Acute cystitis
  o Acute pyelonephritis
  o Catheter associated UTI
  o Asymptomatic bacteriuria

14. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

• Describe pathophysiology / predisposing factors for tissue infections (SSTIs).
• Recognize clinical presentation and monitoring consideration.
• List primary pathogens associated with skin and soft tissues infections.
• Discuss appropriate antimicrobial therapy for SSTIs.

15. Multidrug-Resistant Organisms | Antibiotic Threads, Detection, Epidemiology, and Management

• Discuss the mechanisms of resistance behind common multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens.
• Determine Most common MDR Organisms.
• Discuss the mechanisms of resistance of common MDR.
• Describe the microbiology challenges associated with the identification of multidrug-resistant bacteria.
• Discuss the prevalence and epidemiology of multidrug-resistant bacteria.
• Describe the current evidence-based strategies in the management of invasive multidrug-resistant bacteria.

16. All What you need about the Vaccines

• Identify the type of immunity and vaccines?
• Discuss the vaccines route of administration, storage, adverse effects, contraindications and precautions.
• Determine the immunization schedules of CDC and Saudi MOH.
• Discuss the COVID-19 and Flu Vaccination.
• Identify the role of pharmacist in immunization.
• Determine the Vaccine Types
  • Considerations When Scientists Create Vaccines
  • The 4 Main Types of Vaccines
  • Live Attenuated (viral and bacterial) Vs. Inactivated
  • Live Vaccines are Used to Protect Against

Duration: 16 Weeks