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Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Dosing and Monitoring 

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Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Dosing and Monitoring
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Overview

Duration

6 weeks

Total fee

11,044

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

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Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Dosing and Monitoring
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Highlights

  • Duration 6 weeks
  • Weekly study 2 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Dosing and Monitoring
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  • On this course you will learn about the principles of clinical pharmacokinetics, including factors that affect the absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and binding of drugs. You will learn how to integrate these principles into the process of monitoring, evaluating and adjusting dosing for patients.
  • You will learn through critical thinking and problem-solving exercises that relate to drug dosing and monitoring functions, that are commonly performed by pharmacists in clinical practice.

Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Dosing and Monitoring
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

The Fish Tank ? A Simplified Model of First-Order Elimination

Welcome to this course

The Fish Tank Model - Introduction and Definition

Assessment of the week

Dosing Basics ? How to Determine the Right Amount of Drug for a Patient

How to Determine the Right Amount of Drug for a Patient

The Ups and Downs of Predicting Changes in Drug Concentration

Predicting changes in drug concentration

The Challenges of Assessing Renal and Hepatic Clearance

Renal and hepatic dose adjustment

What Pharmacists Need to Know about Dosing Aminoglycosides and Vancomycin

How to optimize efficacy and minimize toxicity on dosing Vancomycin and Aminoglycoside?

Clinical Application - Vancomycin and Gentamycin Case Practice

Clinical recommendations on the dose adjustment on Vancomycin and Aminoglycoside

Assessment of the Course

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