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31/10/2025, 23:40 Community Pharmacy Practice - Course Materials

Community Pharmacy Practice

This course provides students with competencies and knowledge for the provision of
evidence-based pharmaceutical care of the clinical situations that can be handled by the
pharmacist in the community pharmacy.

Examples of services:

1. Responding to minor ailments (including upper respiratory tract, gastrointestinal, and
musculoskeletal symptoms, skin, eyes, and ears, and childhood symptoms) with over-the-
counter products.

2. Concepts of dispensing and patient assessment,

3. Concepts of patient counselling, and

4. Concepts of patient monitoring in outpatient care settings as components of care planning are
presented.

5. The course also introduces students to community pharmacy services for chronic-diseased out-
patients as well as pharmacist participation in health screening and disease prevention
activities.

Teaching methods

Didactic lectures

Assignments
Quizzes/ forms/ online interaction

Integrated case-based learning (ICBL) is adopted in tutorials and/or aligned field-retrieved
cases to simulate real practice activities and to enable students acquire skills and competencies
targeted in this course.

Student presentations/role plays ..

Flipped classrooms

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