May 19, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

PPR 6591L Clinical Abilities Lab I


Lecture: 0 Lab: 0.5 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 0.5
Clinical Abilities Lab I is the first course in the Clinical Abilities Lab series. The series of courses occur during the second professional year of the PharmD curriculum. This lab-based course instructs students through in class lectures and discussions that are essential for a pharmacy practitioner to provide patient care using the pharmacists’ patient care process. The Clinical Abilities Lab also provides students opportunities to practice and develop trustworthiness when performing entrustable professional activities (EPAs). Students will apply and integrate knowledge from the Pharmacotherapy course sequence to patient cases. Throughout the Clinical Abilities Lab series, students will practice communication with patients and other healthcare providers, educating patients and caregivers on medications and self-monitoring devices, patient interviewing skills, physical assessment, performing prescription drug utilization reviews, and prescription verification. Knowledge of commonly prescribed medications, drug information, biostatistics, pharmacy law, and pharmacy calculations are reinforced.