322016 VU Self-Medication - M10 (2019W)

Course contents
• Patients & Diseases & Treatment
• Chronic vs. Acute diseases
• Limitation with regard to the self-medication
• Generics
• Compliance
• General aspects of patient counseling
• Type of complaints and their rating
• Advisory competence
• Patient counselling and patient interview
• drug selection criteria
• self-medication in high-risk patients
• Self-medication in multimorbid patients
• Special drug therapy
• analgesics, antiphlogistics and antipyretics (patient interview)
• disorders of the musculoskeletal system (patient interview)
• digestive tract (patient interview)
• antiemetics (patient interview)
• respiratory diseases (patient interview)
• obesity (patient interview)
• smoking cessation therapy (patient interview)
• Alimentary substitution (patient interview)
• Vitamins (patient interview)

Objectives of the course:

The students
• know frequently asked questions from current pharmaceutical practice and can offer adequate advice.
• Based on their specialist knowledge, they can represent their own opinions regarding pharmacotherapy and act on their own responsibility.