Courses Handbook 2008

310398 (v.1) Pharmacotherapy 427


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 303177 (v.2) Pharmacotherapy 336 or any previous version
Syllabus: Throboembolic disorders and their management. Drug therapy in the elderly. Problems of urination. Dementia and its management. Disorders of the blood, including anaemias. Disorders of the pituitary, adrenal and parathyroid glands and their management. Clotting disorders and their management. Nutritional disorders and their management including the use of artificial foods. Case studies exemplify the principles of clinical problem solving and patient care plans.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 060117 Internal Medicine
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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