This course deals with general rules applied in situations where first aid is required. The first aid care includes prevention of further injury, restoration of circulation and respiration, controlling of bleeding and removing of poisons.

Course Instructor: Mohammad H. Daba

This course provides the students with the physiological changes that underline pathologic conditions. The relationship between the pathophysiology and the clinical picture and laboratory findings of some major diseases are discussed in practical sessions.

Course Instructor: Mohammad H. Daba

This course explores the fundamental aspects of drug information, the myriad of drug literature and drug information systems. It is designed as an introductory course to teach the student the basic principles of drug information pertaining to retrieval.

Course Instructor: Hisham Abou-Auda 

The courses are designed to provide the student with an opportunity to integrate and apply the multiple components of their knowledge of basic pharmaceutical sciences to formulate a safe and rational drug regimen for a given patient. The course consists of lectures and conferences. Students gain an understanding of rational drug therapy in the treatment of selected diseases. The problems associated with implementing rational drug therapy, how therapy concepts correlate with the pathophysiology of the disease and the monitoring parameters necessary for evaluation of drug therapy. Students develop communication skills as they present and discuss material from case studies and current literatures with their peers and instructors.

Course Instructor: Ahmad Y. Mayt and Gamal A. El-Azab

This course is designed to introduce the student to the changes in the drug absorption, distribution and elimination as a function of time. One- and two-compartment models following different routes of administration will be discussed.

Course Instructors: Khalil Al-Khamis & Hisham Abou-Auda

This course is designed to enable the student to understand how various disease states alter the pharmacokinetic parameters. It provides the student with the principles for dosing patients more rationally and safely.

Course Instructor:  Khalil I. Al-Khamis and Gamal A. El-Azab

This course provides the student with an overview of certain aspects of contemporary hospital/institutional pharmacy service. The planning, development, organizational structuring and administration of pharmaceutical services within an institutional setting are presented in a combined lecture and practical simulation laboratory format.

Course Instructor: Dr. Yousef A. Assiri and Abdlatif A. Al Ghaiheb 

The course has major emphasis and focus on the fundamental principles of management and administration applied in a generic pharmacy practice setting. Operational management and administrative functions in institutional pharmacy services, i.e. financial analysis, purchasing, inventory control, etc., are presented.

Course Instructor: Tawfeeg A. Najjar and Mohammad S. Al-Sultan

This course deals with pharmacy regulations and drug registration laws in Saudi Arabia. The student is expected to become familiar with governmental requirements for handling and using pharmaceuticals including poisons and narcotics.

Course Instructor: Khalil I. Al-Khamis

B. Professional Pathway Courses:

a. Clinical Pharmacy-Hospital Pharmacy:

PHCL 453: Clinical Pharmacy Clerkship-1 (0+3)
PHCL 454: Clinical Pharmacy Clerkship-2 (0+3)

The primary goal of the clerkships is to educate and train the student in the detection and management of medication-related problems and to assist the student in applying acquired knowledge in the promotion of rational drug therapy. The clerkships are designed to provide instruction and academically supervised clinical experiences which will give the student a better knowledge of the most current appropriate methods of collecting and applying information concerning the therapeutic and toxic effects of drugs. Upon completion of these courses the student should:

1. Be able to effectively monitor drug therapy and function to prevent, detect and correct drug-related problems.

2. Effectively function in managing and optimizing drug therapy relative to the total needs of the patient while working in collaboration with the physician, nurse and other health professionals.

3. Effectively assume certain patient-care drug management responsibilities which may be delegated by the primary care physician.

Course Instructor: Ahmad Y. Mayt

The course emphasizes the most important communication skills to enable the student to play a vital role in patient education and thus improving patient understanding and compliance.

Course Instructors: Hisham Abou-Auda

This course provides the student with necessary experience in literature retrieval, evaluation and dissemination of drug and poison information.

Course Instructors: Hisham Abou-Auda 

This course is designed to explore the scope of clinical problems related to parenteral nutrition and intravenous therapy. Students will be taught the rationale of using various intravenous therapy and parenteral and enteral nutritional therapy with their advantages, disadvantages, complications and monitoring parameters.

Course Instructor: Tawfeeg A. Najjar and Hesham A. Zaghloul

This course emphasizes the basic principles of pharmacoepidemiology to enable the student to explore and assess vital epidemiological topics and trends regarding health care delivery in Saudi Arabia.

Course Instructor: Mohammad S. Al-Sultan

Computers are becoming more common place in all types of pharmacy activities including hospital pharmacy, education, research, administration and patient care. This course is designed to introduce pharmacy students to data processing and programming with pharmaceutical applications in mind. Students are expected to become conversant with computer terminology and to learn how to use a computer as a tool for attaining greater effectiveness and efficacy in provision of pharmaceutical care services.

Course Instructors: Hisham Abou-Auda

b. Hospital Pharmacy Practice:

PHCL 455: Communication Skills in Pharmacy Practice (2+0)
For course description see above.

PHCL 456: Hospital Pharmacy-3: [Drug and Poison Information Services (1+1)]
For course description see above.

PHCL 474: Clinical Problems in Parenteral Nutrition and Intravenous Therapy (2+0)
For course description see above.

PHCL 475: Hospital Pharmacy-4:
 Pharmacoepidemiology (2+0)
 For course description see above.

PHCL 476: Hospital Pharmacy-5:
Application of Computers in Pharmacy (1+1)
For course description see above.