Academics

Course Description:
The purpose of this rotation is to provide training to the students in clerking cases in the Department of Internal Medicine. Vital to this is the mandatory participation in the ward rounds with the internists on a daily basis for duration of time assigned to this department. The focus must be on each case markers namely, patient details, lab data, medication regimen and the associated rationale of therapy. The students must anticipate that each and every case will present with some issues to be dealt with in terms of the medication regimen. 
A total of stated cases must be clerked and the same must be disseminated to the class in the form of presentations / group discussions on a weekly basis. The students must select a particular case for the final exam presentation.
Subject Objectives
The objectives of this clerkship for the students are to:

• Participate and involve in the ward rounds with the internists (physician specializing in internal medicine).  
• Carefully and efficiently clerk the cases assigned to them.
• Follow closely all aspects of each patient's care, and should be up to date on the patient's clinical status, lab data, medications, etc.

Course Description
The purpose of this rotation is to provide training in pediatric medicine and infant care. Students will participate in the direct primary care of the infant and children in the hospital while supervised and supported by an interdisciplinary faculty consisting of physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.

Subject Objectives
The objectives of this clerkship for the students are to:

• Define different age groups within the pediatric population.
• Explain general pharmacokinetic & pharmacodynamic differences in pediatric versus adult patients.
• Identify factors that affect selection of safe and effective drug therapy in pediatric patients.
• Identify strategies for appropriate medication administration to infant and young children.

Course Description
Students will be exposed to critically ill unstable patients for whom the common pathway of resuscitation will apply. Procedural skills will vary depending on which unit students rotate through, but basic procedural skills will be obtained in any units they are placed to. Other common pharmacotherapy intervention will vary depending on unit specialty.

Subject Objectives
The objectives of this clerkship for the students are to:

• Understand the fundamental principles of overall management of cases in the intensive care unit:
• Recognize conditions when a patient has a life-threatening illness and needs intensive monitoring and care in an ICU setting
• Learn Basic tenets of pharmacotherapeutic aspects of stabilization of an unstable patient
• Understanding of a thorough differential diagnosis for patients with life threatening conditions

Course Description
The objectives of this clerkship for the students are to provide exposure to an intense clinical experience that introduces students to the basic principles of surgery. The clerkship is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills relevant to surgical management that all students should possess. In addition, it aims to emphasize teamwork, patient responsibility, and professional behavior as essential qualities to develop. Pharmacotherapeutic aspects of surgery are also given due emphasis in the clerkship.

Course Description
As part of clerkship experience, students will have the opportunity to be involved with inpatient, outpatient and on-call duties of obstetrics and gynecology practices.
Formal and informal daily teaching sessions and rounds with the faculty and resident staff are an integral part of the training. The Problem Based Learning System is used in the training held at the assigned hospitals.  Those sessions are constructed so as to cover the Obstetrics and Gynecology Care objectives under the guidance of preceptors.  

Subject Objectives
The objectives of this clerkship for the students are to learn the course of normal and abnormal labor, normal and complicated deliveries, care of newborn infants in the delivery room, and the clinical management of patients with gynecologic disorders.
Although a portion of learning will be derived from observation, the bulk will result from direct experience in outpatient clinics, the operating room and "on the deck" of labor and delivery. There is also a significant didactic learning component that includes a series of lectures, conferences and teaching rounds. 

Course Description
This clerkship will provide a broad overview or introduction to the treatment and management of infectious diseases. The focus will be on common infections seen in community and hospital settings, principles of microbiology and infectious diseases, antimicrobial use, and antimicrobial stewardship. The broad unit objectives are for students to develop and apply infectious diseases and antimicrobial use knowledge and skills in the care of patients, especially those with infections. These may be patients in the community or hospital settings. The knowledge and skills developed will be at a general level rather than at the level required for a specialist infectious diseases pharmacist.
Subject Objectives
The objectives of this clerkship for the students are to:

• I introduce to a range of topics relevant to the optimal use of anti-infectives and the management of patients with infections.
• Manage patients requiring anti-infective therapies, and the use anti-infectives in-general.
• Develop critical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills, with a focus on infectious diseases and their treatment related topics.

Course Synopsis
This clinical experience will provide students with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and appropriate referral of patients with mental health disorders. Students will be exposed to all major psychiatric diagnostic categories including affective disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, alcohol and substance abuse disorders, geriatrics disorders, children and adolescent disorders, somatization disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, autism, pervasive developmental disorder, and personality disorders.

Course Synopsis
The purpose of this rotation is to provide training to the students in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. Therapeutic drug monitoring is an essential component of the pharmacist's responsibility, and a critical part of the drug use process. Accurate monitoring insures appropriate and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for all patients. Focus is placed on familiarizing with the various factors affecting TDM and the subsequent calculations of the medications to be administered. Therapeutic drug monitoring involves the maintenance, modification, or discontinuation of a drug based on its efficacy, therapeutic activity, adverse effect profile, and patient response.

Course Synopsis
As part of this clerkship experience, students will have the opportunity to be involved in receiving calls from the physicians or patients or any other health care professionals and provide response to their queries. The aim of the DPIC internship is to deliver the students with experience in providing authenticated and updated drug and poison information services to the physicians or patients.

Course Synopsis
The purpose of this rotation is to provide training in Total Parenteral Nutrition, administration and calculation. Students will participate and focus on the cases (patients) whose conditions require the administration of TPN. Further to this, they will be required to look at various issues in this context like the TPN-specific calculations, incompatibility issues and the like. 

Course Synopsis
The Ambulatory Care Clerkship introduces the student to outpatient medicine. The goal is for students to become familiar with practicing medicine in the outpatient setting. Students will integrate their knowledge of therapeutics and pathophysiology to effectively provide pharmaceutical care in an ambulatory patient care environment while a licensed preceptor supervises them.