FARM1120 – Social Pharmacy

After completing the course:

• you have knowledge about the history of pharmacy and role of pharmacists in the healthcare system in a local and global perspective.
• you have understanding of the terms adherence, concordance, patient safety, health literacy, and patient's understanding of medicine use.
• you have gained basic knowledge about communication as a term and tool, and have skills in clinical communication with patients / customers.
• you have knowledge about health professional's ethics, and can reflect on professional ethical dilemmas.
• you have knowledge about terminology commonly used in health and disease and social inequality in societies and peoples, including the sami peoples rights and status as indigenous peoples.
• you have knowledge of pharmaceutical terminology and sources for consumption of pharmaceuticals in Norway, and the stakeholders in the pharmaceutical market.
• you will have a basic knowledge of the structure and development of pharmaceutical legislation, as well as the main principles within the field of pharmaceuticals and health.
• you have knowledge about drug information sources and self-care, digital competence with insight into e-health, welfare technology and digital security, and can assist in the development and use of suitable technology at both individual and system level.

The admission requirements for the 5-year Master´s Programme in Pharmacy.

Health, safety and environment (HSE): There are compulsory HSE courses at the beginning of the first semester. For students who start at the 5-year Master´s Programme in Pharmacy, the following HSE courses are required HMS0501 – Safety and Physical Environment, HMS0502 – Positive Learning Environment, HMS0503 – Laboratory Safety, HMS0506 – Patient Clinic Safety and HMS0507 – Fire Safety.

If you fail to pass the HSE-courses within the set deadlines you will not be allowed to continue the study programme until the courses are passed, i.e. the following year at the earliest.

Course exemption: Laws and regulations describing the overall learning outcome regulate the Pharmacy programme. Exemptions are only granted if all learning outcomes in the course are covered.

Exemption for FARM1120 – Social Pharmacy is not granted on the basis of passed exam in FRM1020 – Pharmacy and the society (discontinued).

Lectures and active student involvement, including:

• 6 hours lectures
• 21 hours seminars (7 seminars of 3 hours each)
• 12 hours data-lab, pharmacy simulation-lab and simulation in The Pharmacy Game
• 46 hours other types of student active teaching
• 1 hour digital Q&A session about project assignment and job shadowing
• 2 hours Q&A before the exam

The following are compulsory:

• 1 lecture with the introduction to this course
• 1 job shadowing
• 2 reflection notes, 1 interview with user of medicines, 1 one-week adherence log
• 1 group based assigned project, including peer review and presentation of the project.
• 2-3 excursions
• Completed at least 4 of 7 seminars
• Pharmacy Simulation-lab

It is required that you have completed a minimum of 4 of the seminars, as well as a minimum of 80% attendance in total for mandatory teaching.

Read more about what applies in the event of absence from compulsory activities (only in Norwegian).

In order to participate in job shadowing/excursions out in the clinic, it is a requirement that the HSE course HMS0506 – Patient Clinic Safety must be passed.

As the teaching involves laboratory and/or field work, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance. Read about your insurance cover as a student.

Access to teaching: A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Compulsory participation and approved assignments are valid for 3 years.

Final oral exam which counts 100 % towards finale grade.

This course has mandatory assignments that must be approved before you can sit the final exam.

Withdrawal from an examination: It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for the following course: FRM1020 – Pharmacy and the society (discontinued).

This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Withdrawal during an examination / Resitting an examination