FARM3120 – Medicine Use and Public Health

After completing the course you will be able to:

• describe medication use in society and assess real-world challenges associated with use of medicines, including drug misuse and drug addiction.
• explain concepts such as epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, waste-water epidemiology, and digital data security.
• calculate basic epidemiological measures of frequency, association, and significance.
• critically evaluate results of epidemiological studies and communicate evidence-based risks of medication use to patients and the general public.
• discuss why prioritization in healthcare is necessary and how pharmacoeconomic analyses can be carried out and used for.
• discuss laws and regulations related to medicines and the pharmacist´s professional role.

Passed the exam in:

• ​FARM1100 – Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• FARM1110 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 1
• FARM1120 – Social Pharmacy
• FARM1130 – Pharmaceutically Based Organic Chemistry
• FARM1140 – Pharmacology, Physiology and Cell Biology 2
• FARM1150 – Pharmaceutical Based Biochemistry
• The compulsory HSE-courses HMS0501 – Safety and Physical Environment, HMS0502 – Positive Learning Environment, HMS0503 – Laboratory Safety, HMS0506 – Patient Clinic Safety and HMS0507 – Fire Safety required for students at the 5-year Master`s Programme in Pharmacy.

The compulsory parts of:

• FARM2100 – Medicinal Chemistry
• FARM2110 – Pharmacotherapy 1
• FARM2120 – Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
• FARM2130 – Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry
• FARM2140 – Pharmaceutical Microbiology
• FARM2150 – Formulation of Drugs and Quality Assurance in Drug Production

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.

The information about overlaps is not complete.

Passed the exam in:

• FARM2100 – Medicinal Chemistry
• FARM2110 – Pharmacotherapy 1
• FARM2120 – Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
• FARM2130 – Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry
• FARM2140 – Pharmaceutical Microbiology
• FARM2150 – Formulation of Drugs and Quality Assurance in Drug Production

Lectures and student-active teaching, including colloquia, flipped classroom and computer lab, communication seminar and a pharmacy-simulation in The Pharmacy Game.

• 22 hours lectures - the introductory lecture is compulsory
• 2 hours e-learning module
• 4 hours seminar and pharmacy-lab, as well as participation in a simulation in The Pharmacy Game (compulsory)
• 12 hours data lab with approval of one data-lab report (compulsory)
• 26 hours colloquia
• 4 hours PBL (compulsory)

Compulsory participation in the course must be completed and approved and compulsory submissions must be approved to sit the exam. Read more about what applies in the event of absence from compulsory activities (only in Norwegian).

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 written exam which counts 100 % towards the final grade.

Before admission to take the exam can be granted, you must have:

• completed all compulsory teaching activities
• approved PBL teaching
• approved the data-lab report in pharmacoepidemiology

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

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