Elective Programme

• Adverse drug reactions monitoring
• Community Pharmacy
• Consent in medical research
• Critically appraising a research article
• Health care delivery system in Sri Lanka
• Hospital Pharmacy

Adverse drug reactions monitoring

At the end of the session, student should be able to,
• identify the predisposing factors for ADR
• explain the procedure of reporting ADR
• discuss the ways of minimizing ADR

Community Pharmacy

At the end of the session, student should be able to
• describe properties of OTC drugs and prescription only medicine
• advantages of the prescription bank in developing countries
• describe the limitations of e-prescribing in developing countries

Consent in medical research

At the end of the appointment student should be able to,
• understand the importance of using consent form in clinical research
• develop the consent form for a clinical research
• obtained informed consent from a voluntary participant for a research

Critically appraising a research article

At the end of the session student should be able to,
• identify the strengths and weaknesses of a research article
• identify features of different methodology designs
• report on completeness of methods, procedures, conclusions, compliance with ethical standards of clinical trials
• analyze the usefulness and validity of research findings

Health care delivery system in Sri Lanka

At the end of the module student should be able to
• elaborate overview of health care system of Sri Lanka
• understand current health care indices in Sri Lanka
maternal mortality rate
infant mortality rate
neonatal mortality rate
literacy
average life expectancy at birth
• describe the basic patient management systems in teaching hospitals
• explain the uniqueness of Sri Lankan health care system and how they achieve, reduce door to needle time, low cost health care delivery system to the general public

Hospital Pharmacy

At the end of the session student should be able to,
• understand the hospital pharmacy organization
• understand the drug management cycle in a state hospital
• indent the process of medication dispensing
• discuss the importance of having hospital formulary
• identify the common dispensing errors

How to apply: http://www.medi.ruh.ac.lk/index.php/elective-program-home