. . . . CORRESPONDENCE COURSE U.S. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT CENTER AND SCHOOL SUBCOURSE MD08O4 EDITION 200 THERAPEUTICS I A patient who visits a physician or physician extender frequently receives a prescription for a medication. That prescription is brought to the pharmacy to be filled. The patient expects professional attention at the pharmacy. Part of that expectation involves any caution or warning the patient should heed while taking the medication. In your role, you will serve as a source of drug information. Patients and friends will ask you specific questions concerning the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications. You must know the trade and generic names of literally hundreds of medications. Furthermore, you must know the cautions and warnings associated with many agents. How are you to know this information about drugs? Certainly you have had instruction which presented the basics of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. This instruction has given you a sound foundation for learning more in these areas. This subcourse will present instruction in anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. The material in anatomy and physiology is included to refresh your memory or to give you additional information so you can better understand the pharmacology material. This subcourse is not intended to be used as an authoritative source of drug information. As you know, new drugs are constantly being discovered and new uses for existing drugs are being found through research. Therefore, you must rely upon this subcourse to review concepts or to learn new information. You are then to use other sources (see lesson 1 of this subcourse) to gain new information as it is discovered. ---------------------- Length: 197 Pages Estimated Hours to Complete: 14 Format: PDF file Size: 1.2 MB ---------------------- Subcourse Components: Lesson 1. Professional References in Pharmacy. Lesson 2. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology Important to Therapeutics. Lesson 3. Introduction to Pharmacology. Lesson 4. Local Anesthetic Agents. Lesson 5. The Central Nervous System. Lesson 6. Agents Used During Surgery. Lesson 7. Sedative and Hypnotic Agents. Lesson 8. Anticonvulsant Agents. Lesson 9. Psychotherapeutic Agents. Lesson 10. Central Nervous System (CNS) Stimulants. Lesson 11. Narcotic Agents. ---------------------------- Anyone may take this course. However, to receive credit hours, you must be officially enrolled and complete an examination furnished by the Nonresident Instruction Branch at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Enrollment is normally limited to Department of Defense personnel. Others may apply for enrollment, but acceptance is not guaranteed. This file is in PDF format and requires a PDF reader. A free PDF reader is available from Adobe through the link below. This Course in available only by Download. |
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