Goals of the Pharmacotherapy Curriculum

Basic Pharmacotherapy Principles
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  • To educate the resident in using the appropriate tools needed in managing drug therapy, which will ultimately lead to excellent, rational medical care. 
  • To train residents to justify their drug selection for their patients using evidence based medicine.
  • To address core competencies found in this document
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Pharmacy Pearls

This is a series that we run about once a month for the Family Medicine Residency on Wednesday afternoons. Come ask Dr.See and Dr. Ginzburg your questions! 
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PAST TOPICS:
ACEIs
ADHD
Anticoagulants for Afib
Antibiotics in Pregnancy
Antipsychotics
Anxiety
Beta Blockers
BPH
​Bridging in Afib
Depression
Diabetes
Geriatrics-Polypharmacy
Hypertension
Migraine 
Novel Oral Anticoagulants
Ophthalmics
​Osteoporosis
Sunscreens
  1. Establish individualized therapeutic goals and evaluate therapeutic outcomes
  2. Practice cost-effective pharmacotherapy
  3. Recognize, avoid, and manage adverse drug reactions; drug allergies; drug-drug, drug-herb/supplement, and drug-food interactions
  4. Prescribe based on considerations in special populations (pediatrics, geriatrics, obstetrics)
  5. Dose appropriately based on hepatic and renal function
  6. Therapeutic drug monitoring (how and why to measure drug concentrations)
  7. Consider the use of complementary and alternative medicine
  8. Critically evaluate scientific literature and practice evidence-based medicine
  9. Discuss sources for accessing unbiased drug information
  10. Provide patient education as necessary
  11. Prescribe medications with consideration of insurance plan and hospital formularies
  12. Pharmacy regulations (prescription writing, controlled substances) ​​

Look It Up!!!!!

Look it up!! Instructions!
This is where we take clinical questions, drill them down to focused PICO questions and search the evidence at the point of care!
Need a Topic for Journal Club?

Check out www.medscape.com and look at the specialty specific pages for current hot topics.
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See Some Examples