Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences · Courses
PCW
4 courses with the subject PCW, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PCW 521Patient Care Workshop1
The Patient Care Workshop series integrate information from the courses offered during that term as well as previously mastered material in a way that assists students in mastering course material in an active learning environment and in a manner that helps to develop problem-solving skills. In addition, these workshops are designed to cross disciplinary boundaries to foster deeper understanding of the material by the student. Students will be expected to employ critical-thinking skills, demonstrate effective written and verbal communication, and function effectively in small group sessions. The workshops will be led by peer leaders and faculty facilitators under the direction of a faculty course coordinator. Patient Care Workshop 1 is the first workshop in the Patient Care Workshop (PCW) Sequence, introducing students to the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process (PPCP). The Patient Care Workshops are a series of small group learning opportunities that maximize peer-to-peer learning and faculty modeling. Patient Care Workshop 1 will incorporate pharmacology and pharmacotherapy topics into clinically oriented discussion, explore evidence-based decision making, and instruct how to write formal Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan “SOAP” notes. Cases will be derived from pre-requisite and co-requisite course content. Prerequisite: Doctor of Pharmacy Students, PTP518, PHM510. Corequisite: PHD525, PTP521.
Patient Care Workshop 2 will build upon the skills and tactics taught in PCW1. More specifically, this workshop will start to build more clinically oriented decision making and SOAP note documentation. For PCW2, students will take a more clinically oriented case-based approach to learning. Cases will be derived from pre-requisite and co-requisite course content. Students will continue to advance the skills learned in PCW1 with respect to evidence-based approaches to clinical cases, writing more complete and sophisticated SOAP notes, and engaging in critical thinking and problem-solving with respect to clinical scenarios which are developed using material taught in the previous and concurrent semester of Spring P2. Prerequisite: Doctor of Pharmacy Students, PCW521, PTP521, PHD525. Corequisite: PTP520, PTP524.
Patient Care Workshop 3 assists students in mastering course material in an active learning environment and in a manner that helps to further develop and refine problem-solving skills. Building upon the problem-solving abilities and patient-centered care skills introduced and reinforced in previous IPS workshops, PCW531 engages students in discussion of patient-oriented care that requires integration of course material and practice foundations from the
Patient Care Workshop 4 is the final workshop of the PCW series. PCW4 is a continuation of previous workshops in that it will be a small-group, facilitator-led discussion centered around patient care that integrates materials taught previously or concurrently in the required PharmD curriculum. PCW4, however, is distinguished from previous workshops in that the complexity of patient cases will be enhanced and will require students to present at least one evidence-based professional presentation. In this regard, PCW4 is a 2-credit course secondary to the increased demands of the course. Cases for PCW4 include challenging multidisciplinary patient scenarios, therapeutic controversies, the practice of Medication Therapy Management, and actual and potential drug-related problems for students to evaluate. Students will be required to critically evaluate literature to synthesize appropriate evidence- based recommendations that will be presented in small group discussions as well as in the student’s individual professional presentation. Prerequisite: Doctor of Pharmacy Students, PCW531, PTP530, PTP539. Corequisite: PTP531
