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If this is your first time visiting the What's New page, here's some sage advice: Visit here frequently! This page will keep you up-to-date with what's happening in this course. Weekly handouts and homework assignments will also be posted here (in PDF format). In addition, links to other educational (and entertaining) places on the Web can also be found here.
If you haven't already done so, check out some of the Other Sites on the Web.
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This week's lecture will be a Review of Antibiotics and Infectious Diseases that are commonly seen in the primary care setting.
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What about antibiotic resistance? Click here. |
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How to reduce antibiotic usage? Click here. |
Take a look at a sample homework to see what you'll be doing this semester, and to get an idea of what we're looking for.
Click here to see how your prescriptions will be graded. Please note that this is a work-in-progress and are only guidelines for the site facilitators to follow. Please contact your site facilitator or me if you have any questions.
For more information about writing prescriptions, click here.
Here is some updated information regarding prescribing by nurse practitioners.
Do you know of a useful web site?
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On the other hand, if you find a link here that isn't working, let me know that
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This week's lecture on Drug Therapy in Neonates,
Pediatrics, Pregnancy, and Lactation will be taught by Amber Lucas,
Pharm.D., Clinical Pharmacy Specialist,
Saint Luke's
Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri.
Because humans at the extreme ends of the lifespan are particularly susceptible to the toxic effects of drugs, it behooves us to pay special attention to avoiding medication errors. Listed below are two sites that you ought to visit:
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Handout:
Updated January 22,
2007. Click here for details.
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| # pages | 31 | 16 |
| Click here -> | Pediatrics-3 | Pediatrics-6 |
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This week's lecture on Drug Therapy in Geriatric Patients will be taught by Ken Mishler, Pharm.D., Senior Vice-President, Kansas Foundation for Medical Care, Topeka, Kansas
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| # pages | 19 | 10 |
| Click here -> | Geriatrics-3 | Geriatrics-6 |
One of the requirements of this week's class is that you read and become familiar with this articles:
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/163/22/2716.pdf
Print the following articles:
Annals of Internal Medicine 2001;135(8);641-42
How and Why We Should Move Our Geriatric Cheese
http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/135/8_Part_2/641.pdf
Annals of Internal Medicine 2001;135(8);653-667
ACOVE Quality Indicators
http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/135/8_Part_2/653.pdf
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Doctors, nurses and other health care experts are sharing their personal tales of frustration trying to navigate the health care system. They hope their experiences will prompt changes that make it easier to obtain care for elderly relatives. Hear NPR's Joe Shapiro. |
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Week 5 - February 13, 2007
This week's lecture is on the treatment of Hypertension and Coronary Heart Disease.
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A "must have" document is the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's National High Blood Pressure Education Program Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-VII) |
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| # pages | 14 | 28 |
| Click here -> | HTNCAD-3 | HTNCAD-6 |
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This week's lecture is on the treatment of Congestive Heart Failure.
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| # pages | 25 | 13 |
| Click here -> | CHF_AFib-3 | CHF_AFib-6 |
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Week 7 - February 27, 2007
This week's lecture is on the The treatment of atrial fibrillation, with an emphasis on Warfarin Therapy.
Handout:
This week's handout is a tree killer!
| # slides/page | 3 | 6 |
| # pages | 20 | 10 |
| Click here -> | AfibWarf-3 | AfibWarf-6 |
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Week 8 - March 6, 2007
This week's lecture is on Lipid Disorders, presented by Jim Backes, Pharm.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy.
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| # pages | 28 | 14 |
| Click here -> | Lipids-3 | Lipids-6 |
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Week 9 - March 13, 2007
This week's lecture is on Diabetes Mellitus, presented by Jim Backes, Pharm.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy.
Handout:
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| # pages | 16 | 32 |
| Click here -> | DM-3 | DM-6 |
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| NONE | 7 | 6 |
This week's lecture on Peptic Ulcer Disease, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, and Nausea and Vomiting is being taught by Philip Schneider, Pharm.D., Director, Department of Pharmacy at Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kansas.
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Week 11 - April 3, 2007
This week's lecture on Allergies and Upper Respiratory Tract Infections will be taught by Ken Mishler, Pharm.D., Kansas Foundation for Medical Care.
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If you want to keep track of allergens in the Kansas City area, visit the Children's Mercy Hospital Mold and Pollen Count. There are a number of other useful links at this site as well. |
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| # pages | 14 | 7 |
| Click here -> | AllgUri-3 | AllgUri-6 |
In addition there is a supplemental handout for this lecture. CLICK HERE to download it.
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This week's lecture on Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is being taught by Greg Burger, Pharm.D., of the Department of Pharmacy at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence, Kansas.
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The latest Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program are available online as a PDF document. This is a large document (approx. 1053K). and prints out on about 200 sheets of paper! Information for ordering a printed copy (cost: $7.00) is also provided. |
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| Click here -> | Resp1-3 | Resp1-6 |
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Week 13 - April 17, 2007
This week's lecture on Urinary Tract Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases will be taught by Amber Lucas, Pharm.D., Department of Pharmacy, St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri.
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| Click here -> | UTISTD07 |
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Week 14 - April 24, 2007
This week's lecture is on the Pharmacotherapy of Pain Control, taught by Stefanie Dahm, Pharm.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy.
This week's handout is a tree killer!
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| 12 | 11 | 10 |
Week 15 - May 1, 2007
This week's lecture on Anxiety, Insomnia, and Depression is being taught by Donald Milligan, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, The University of Kansas School of Medicine.
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| The Last ONE! | 12 | 11 |
Week 16 - May 8, 2007
This week's lecture on Contraception is being taught by Rebecca Ruble, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, The University of Kansas School of Medicine.
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| # slides/page | 3 | 6 |
| # pages | 37 | 19 |
| Click here -> | Contra-3 | Contra-6 |
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| NONE | NONE | 13 |
