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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

303178 (v.2) Pharmacotherapy 325

Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.5
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     311038 (v.1) Antimicrobial Chemotherapies 220 or any previous version
    OR
    11677 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 233 or any previous version
AND
    311044 (v.1) Biochemical Pharmacology 224 or any previous version
    OR
    8013 (v.5) Pharmacology 224 or any previous version
    OR
    2998 (v.4) Chemotherapy 224 or any previous version
AND
    311046 (v.1) Systems Pharmacology 335 or any previous version
    OR
    11681 (v.3) Pharmacology 335 or any previous version
Syllabus: Concepts of Pharmaceutical care, patient assessment, patient education, patient monitoring and evidence-based medicine. Cardiovascular risk, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias. Dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome. Pneumonia and urinary tract infection. Diabetes mellitus Asthma, chronic airways limitation. Renal disorders. Pressure, arterial, venous and diabetic ulcers.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 060117 Internal Medicine
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 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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