MED 4680 Clinical Pharmacology Consults
Provide senior students with the opportunity to participate in the clinical pharmacology consultation services. Consultation experience frequently involves drug overdose, adverse drug reactions, and drug pharmacokinetics. Goals: At the end of this elective, senior students will be able create differential diagnoses of common allergic signs and symptoms, interpret common immunologic testing in adults and children, develop management plans for their assigned patients, and ultimately develop a rational approach to caring for similar patients in the future (prior to referring patients to an internist or allergist). Unique Objectives: Correctly interpret results of drug levels and other laboratory tests to optimize care on their assigned patients; develop a rationale plan for treating common drug overdoses using available nomograms and knowledge of drug pharmacokinetics; attain fund of knowledge and skills to enable the students to work-up and provide initial care for patients with drug-induced hepatitis, alcohol intoxication and withdrawal, recreational drug use, and drug poisoning.
Offered
USUHS