Section 1: The Patient
- Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
- Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
- Communication skills for pharmacists and their team
- History Taking/ Gathering Information
- Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer
Section 2: The Medicine
- The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
- Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
- Formularies in pharmacy practice
- Complementary and alternative medicines
- Using calculations in pharmacy practice
Section 3: The Medicine Formulation
- Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
- Suppositories and pessaries
Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product
- Production of sterile products
- Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process
- Standard operating procedures
- Information retrieval in pharmacy practice
- Control of health professionals and their staff
- Continuing professional development and revalidation
Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare
- The role of pharmacy in healthcare
- Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas
- Structure and organization of pharmacy
- Intra- and inter-professional working
Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond
- Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access
- Routes of administration and dosage forms
- Labelling of dispensed medicines
- The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation
- Public health and pharmacy interventions
