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SBFC Farmácia Clínica study plan

SBFC Farmácia Clínica · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Pharmacotherapy of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders & Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

  • Map every antihypertensive, lipid-lowering, and antidiabetic drug class to its mechanism, first-line indication, and key monitoring parameter, producing a one-page comparison table per class group

  • Solve 20 calculation exercises converting doses, infusion rates, and creatinine clearance values into individualized regimens for cardiovascular patients

  • Explain aloud, without notes, how volume of distribution and clearance determine loading versus maintenance dosing for three cardiovascular drugs

  • List the five most clinically consequential drug interactions in cardiometabolic therapy and state the mechanism and management for each

Your checkpoint

A 12-page handwritten or typed cardiometabolic drug-class matrix plus a worked answer key for the 20 calculation exercises

Week 2

Pharmacotherapy of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders & Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

  • Construct full pharmacotherapy plans for six simulated cases covering heart failure, atrial fibrillation, acute coronary syndrome, diabetic ketoacidosis, thyroid disorders, and chronic kidney disease with diabetes

  • Interpret ten therapeutic drug monitoring scenarios (digoxin, vancomycin, phenytoin, lithium) and justify each dose adjustment with pharmacokinetic reasoning

  • Derive the impact of hepatic impairment and renal impairment on dosing for five drugs using half-life and clearance concepts

  • Defend each therapeutic choice against current guideline first-line recommendations in a written rationale of 150 words per case

Your checkpoint

Six completed case write-ups with documented therapeutic plan, monitoring schedule, and pharmacokinetic justification

Week 3

Pharmacotherapy of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship & Medication Safety, Pharmacovigilance, and Drug Interactions

  • Classify 25 antimicrobials by spectrum, mechanism, and resistance pathway, and match each to its typical empirical indication

  • Apply antimicrobial stewardship principles to eight scenarios by deciding whether to start, narrow, escalate, or stop therapy and stating the evidence for each decision

  • Identify and manage the ten highest-risk drug interactions involving antimicrobials, anticoagulants, and immunosuppressants

  • Design a monitoring plan for a patient on aminoglycoside or vancomycin therapy that specifies trough and peak timing and toxicity thresholds

Your checkpoint

An antimicrobial stewardship decision log covering eight scenarios with documented de-escalation reasoning and monitoring parameters

Week 4

Pharmacotherapy of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders & Pharmacotherapy of Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, and Renal Disorders

  • Compare antidepressant, antipsychotic, mood stabilizer, and antiepileptic classes on efficacy, adverse-effect profile, and required laboratory monitoring

  • Build treatment algorithms for asthma, COPD, gastroesophageal reflux disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and chronic kidney disease from guideline first-line through step-up therapy

  • Explain the serotonin syndrome, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and lithium toxicity presentations and state the immediate management for each

  • Reconcile medication lists for five polypharmacy patients with psychiatric and respiratory or gastrointestinal comorbidities, flagging every duplication and contraindication

Your checkpoint

Five completed medication reconciliation reports with flagged problems, recommended interventions, and guideline citations

Week 5

Pharmaceutical Care and Clinical Pharmacy Practice & Pharmacy Law, Ethics, and Professional Practice in Brazil

  • Apply the pharmaceutical care process end to end to four patients, documenting each care issue in the SOAP format with a measurable therapeutic goal

  • Summarize the Brazilian regulatory framework governing pharmacy practice, including the responsibilities of the pharmacist in charge and the rules for controlled-substance dispensing

  • Resolve six ethical dilemmas drawn from dispensing, compounding, and patient-counseling situations by citing the applicable professional duty

  • Deliver a 10-minute patient counseling script on correct inhaler or insulin technique and evaluate it against a written checklist

Your checkpoint

Four SOAP notes plus a one-page summary sheet of Brazilian pharmacy law duties, controlled-substance rules, and ethical decision principles

Week 6

Oncology, Hematology, and Immunosuppressive Therapy & Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine

  • Outline the pharmacology, supportive-care needs, and major toxicities of the ten most common chemotherapy regimens, including antiemetic and growth-factor prophylaxis

  • Explain the mechanism and management of immunosuppression in transplant recipients and the infection-prophylaxis schedule that accompanies it

  • Interpret five pharmacogenomic test results (CYP2D6, CYP2C19, TPMT, DPYD, HLA-B) and translate each into a concrete prescribing recommendation

  • Predict which patients in a set of ten cases are at pharmacogenomic risk and justify the testing decision

Your checkpoint

A pharmacogenomic translation table for five gene-drug pairs with prescribing recommendations, plus a chemotherapy supportive-care checklist

Week 7

Pharmaceutical Care and Clinical Pharmacy Practice & Medication Safety, Pharmacovigilance, and Drug Interactions & Pharmacy Law, Ethics, and Professional Practice in Brazil

  • Conduct a simulated pharmacovigilance workflow by identifying, assessing causality for, and reporting five adverse drug reactions using a structured causality tool

  • Audit a 15-item medication list for high-alert medications, look-alike/sound-alike risks, and interaction severity, and rank the findings by patient harm potential

  • Draft a complete adverse-event report and a patient-safety improvement recommendation in the format used by Brazilian health services

  • Rehearse the pharmacist's role in a medication error disclosure conversation and document the steps taken

Your checkpoint

Five completed adverse-drug-reaction causality assessments plus one formal report and one patient-safety improvement proposal

Week 8

Pharmaceutical Care and Clinical Pharmacy Practice & Pharmacotherapy of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders & Pharmacotherapy of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship & Pharmacotherapy of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders & Pharmacotherapy of Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, and Renal Disorders & Oncology, Hematology, and Immunosuppressive Therapy & Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring & Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine & Medication Safety, Pharmacovigilance, and Drug Interactions & Pharmacy Law, Ethics, and Professional Practice in Brazil

  • Complete two full-length timed mock examinations under exam conditions and score each by domain to identify residual weak areas

  • Re-teach the three lowest-scoring domains to yourself in writing, converting each weak concept into a one-line rule with a worked example

  • Review every previously flagged uncertain item and confirm or correct it against a primary reference

  • Consolidate all weekly deliverables into a single indexed revision file organized by domain for final review

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a domain-by-domain error analysis and a consolidated indexed revision file covering all ten domains

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a self-made 30-question quiz on cardiovascular and metabolic pharmacotherapy and pharmacokinetic calculations, with every missed item rewritten as a corrected rule

Week 4: Complete all five medication reconciliation reports with no unflagged major interaction, verified against a drug-interaction reference

Week 6: Produce a pharmacogenomic recommendation for all five gene-drug pairs and correctly justify at least four of five in a peer or self-review

Week 8: Achieve at least 65% on both timed mock exams with no domain scoring below 50%, and finish the consolidated revision file