Upon successful completion of this course, student should be able to:
- Identify and list different types of information resources available.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the tertiary, secondary, and primary literature.
- Develop critical understanding of the strengths and limitations of these resources (scope, type of information, arrangement, method of access, structure, and application of frequently used drug information tertiary resources.)
- Understand the different secondary databases, the search strategy and article citation and retrieval process involved.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of computerized information databases
- Understand and differentiate the type of information cited in a biomedical journal (original article, review article, case report, editorial, etc)
- Conduct a systematic search of the tertiary, secondary, and primary literature in order to retrieve appropriate drug information to answer a specific request
- Evaluate online drug information sites for appropriateness and quality.
- Formulate a drug information response based on the requestor’s level of understanding
- Develop sufficient communication skills through verbal and written activities
- Demonstrate sufficient skills to perform appropriate calculations.
- List literature resources utilized to manage topic specific questions (poison, herbal, pregnancy, evidence-based medicine, etc)
- List other activities performed by drug information pharmacist (drug evaluation, DUE, ADR reporting, DI newsletter, etc
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