Table: Therapeutics Curriculum Map Year 2
| ICU | Learning outcomes | Method of teaching and content area | Specific examples of drugs used | Assessment | Tomorrow’s doctors mapping |
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| Campus to Clinic (Year 2) | - Demonstrate competency in performing a focused medical history and examination, including drug history, social and family history and begin to formulate a differential diagnosis. - Increase knowledge of the actions, side effects, and contraindications of drugs used in the management of common chronic diseases. |
Placement based - Mental Health - 5 Core Conditions (Biopyschosocial management) Body Systems - Cardiovascular - Respiratory - Gastroenterological - Neurological - Renal/Urological - Musculoskeletal - Endocrine RRAPID Emergency Drugs |
- Adrenaline - Atropine - Morphine/Diamorphine - Furosemide - Oxygen - Beta-2 Adrenoceptor Agonists (e.g. Salbutamol) - Ipratropium - Hydrocortisone - Chlorphenamine - Flumazenil - Dextrose - Glucagon - Naloxone - Diazepam/Lorazepam - Common antibiotics |
Self-directed drug profile proforma, Written papers | TD 14g, 17a,b TD 8e,f, 14,g,17g |
| Individuals and Populations (Year 2) | • Describe, using examples, how epidemiological studies, can be used to assess the causes of disease and evaluate treatments. | Lectures, symposia | Written papers | TD 12a | |
| Essential Medical Science (Year 2) | • Use of anti-coagulant and thrombolytic therapy • Developments in targeted cancer therapy • Principles of pharmacogenetics |
Lecture - Vascular disease Symposium - Cancer therapy Lecture - Pharmacogenetics |
- Warfarin - Tamoxifen - Herceptin - Azathioprine - - Mercaptopurine - - Succinylcholine - - Aminoglycoside |
Written papers | TD 8e-g, 14g TD 8e-g, 14g TD 8a,f |
| Clinical Pathology (Year 2) | Microbiology - Treatment of infection By the end of the course the student should: a. Know how to treat patients with infections b. Know the antimicrobial spectrum of agents used in clinical practice c. Know the pharmacokinetic profiles of antimicrobial agents used in clinical practice d. Know the adverse effects of antimicrobial agents used in clinical practice e. Be able to specify appropriate prophylactic, empirical and directed antimicrobial therapy f. Be able to specify appropriate treatment interventions that do not involve antimicrobial therapy Haematology a. Describe the mode of action, monitoring blood tests and complications of the currently used anticoagulant and anti platelet drugs Immunology a. Immunomodulation and immunosupression Chemical Pathology • How do lipid lowering drugs affect LDL receptor levels in the liver? • Understand how to recognise and treat neutropenic sepsis |
Lectures |
- Penicillins - Cephalosporins - Aminoglycosides e.g. gentamicin - Macrolides e.g. erythromycin, Clarithromycin - Nitrofurantoin - Quinolones e.g. Ciprofloxacin - Tetracyclines - Trimethoprim - Vancomycin - Metronidazole - Carbapenems - Chloramphenicol - Co-Trimoxazole - Fusidic Acid - Linezolid - Mupirocin - Teicoplanin - Antituberculosis Drugs - Antileprosy Drugs - Aciclovir, - Valciclovir - Amphotericin B - Clotrimazole - Fluconazole - Terbinafine - Itraconazole Voriconazole - Echinocandins - Antihelminthic Drugs - Antimalarial Drugs - Antiprotozoal Drugs - Warfarin - Heparin - Fondaparinux - Aspirin - Fibrinolytic Agents - Interferons - G-CSF/Gm-CSF - Nsaids - Hydroxycholorquine - Sulphasalazine - Colchicine - Dapsone - Thalidomide - Corticosteroids - Azathioprine - Mychophenolate - Methotrexate - Cyclophosphamide - Cyclosporin - Tacrolimus - Sirolimus - Tocilizumab - Anakinra - Rilonacept - Canakinumab - Rituximab - Abatacept - Natalizumab - Eculizumab - Omalizumab - Mepolizumab - Simvastatin - Fibric Acid Derivatives - Cholestyramine - Methotrexate |
Weekly online assessments End of year written assessment |
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| IDEALS (Year 2) | Awareness of the underlying causes of error (generic but applicable to pharmacology) | Small group Teaching Patient safety teaching | Formal Reflection | TD 23d | |
| Control and movement (Year 2) | • Outline the pharmacology of analgesics and local and general anaesthetics. • Outline the general organisation and functioning of brainstem, basal ganglia, cerebellum and cortical motor areas, their pathology and pharmacology. • Demonstrate an understanding of aspects of the epidemiology, presentation, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of some common neurological disorders. • Demonstrate an understanding of aspects of the epidemiology, presentation, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of common pathologies and trauma of the limbs and vertebral column. |
Lectures, symposia | Written papers | Td 8a,e,f, 14g, 16b, 17b TD 8a,f, 17f TD 8a-g, 14g, 16b, 17b,f TD 8a-g, 14g, 16b, 17b,f |
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