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Clinical Pharmacy
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Rotation Selection | Rotation Scheduling | Core Rotation
Competencies
 In agreement with the Lebanese American University (LAU)
School of Pharmacy and AUB, students, as part of their requirements leading to a
Bachelor of Science or a Pharmacy Doctor degree in pharmacy, complete a program
of clinical education and training at AUBMC. Students will be exposed to proper,
direct–patient, pharmacy-care practice and patient-oriented, pharmacy services.
Through patient monitoring, therapeutic consultations, in-service presentation
and communication with other healthcare professionals and patients alike,
students gain additional clinical experience in the various specialties of
medicine: internal medicine (inpatient and outpatient psychiatry,
hematology-oncology, infectious disease, endocrinology, neurology, surgery,
gastroenterology, cardiology, dermatology), pediatrics, critical care and family
medicine.
The Doctor of Pharmacy Professional Pharmacy Experience Program
consists of seven 4-week, advanced, practice rotations plus one 4-week, research
rotation. The program consists of four required rotations (one community, one
internal medicine, one pediatrics, one critical care area (cardiology or
medicine)) and three elective rotations.
The Bachelor of Science is a
16-week module divided into 3-4 practice rotations in the various specialties of
medicine listed above and based on availability.
Rotation Selection
Students will be matched with the
rotation based on their choice and availability. In July, students are asked to
rank, in order of preference, the elective rotations they would like to
do.
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Rotation Scheduling
The director of the Experiential
Program at LAU and the site coordinator schedule all rotations. Students are not
to contact individual preceptors to schedule or reschedule rotations. Students
desiring to modify their schedule need to approach the director of Experiential
Program with a valid reason by the first or second week of September before the
start of the first rotation/module.
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Core Rotation
Competencies
A direct patient care experience in which the pharmacist
is responsible for the patient's total pharmaceutical care. Core rotations must
meet 15 of the 18 competencies. The competencies in red below are to be included
in a core rotation.
 Collect
data (pharmacy computer, computerized laboratory system, patient chart and
nursing records) to design a pharmacotherapeutic plan
- Interpret data
- Develop a pharmacotherapy problem list
- Design a therapeutic plan for the identified
patient-specific problem(s) through the pharmacodynamic, economic, quality of
life and ethical/legal considerations (using primary literature where
appropriate)
- Implement the pharmacotherapy plan, including appropriate
monitoring parameters and their limitations
- Monitor/Modify the therapeutic plan
- Document outcomes achieved through the implementation of a therapeutic plan
- Interpret, generate and disseminate knowledge in pharmacotherapy
- Document and report new, unusual or severe pharmacotherapeutic events (e.g.
adverse reactions, drug interactions, new drug effects and drug/device/assay
defects)
- Disseminate pharmacotherapeutic knowledge to patients, practitioners,
healthcare team members and healthcare managers in order to foster the safe,
effective and economic use of therapeutic agents
- Evaluate self-care products, therapeutic devices and supplies and counsel
patients on their selection and use
- Appropriately interview a patient
- Present a patient case in an organized and complete case presentation format
- Extract important and relevant information from primary literature and apply
it to the care of individual patients
- Promote adherence to institution guidelines, pathways and algorithms for
disease management
- Demonstrate a sense of responsibility for the drug therapy
outcomes of the patients being followed
- Perform physical assessment when appropriate and be able to interpret the
results of the physical exam
- Display a professional demeanor with patients and other healthcare
professionals
The LAU School of Pharmacy is a member of the American
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The Doctor of Pharmacy Program is
accredited by the American Council on Pharmacy Education (ACPE). The next
on-site visit will take place in spring 2008. As of June 2002, LAU Doctor of
Pharmacy graduates are eligible to sit for the Pharmacist Licensure Examination
in all 50 states. To date, the Doctor of Pharmacy Program at LAU is the only
program outside the US to enjoy such an accreditation status.
For more
information, you can access the LAU School of Pharmacy website at http://www.lau.edu.lb/academics/school-phar/.
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