Jw. Beach et al., AN INTEGRATED INFECTIOUS-DISEASE COURSE FOR AN ENTRY-LEVEL DOCTOR OF PHARMACY CURRICULUM, American journal of pharmaceutical education, 62(3), 1998, pp. 296-301
An integrated introductory infectious disease course that incorporates
pertinent clinical microbiology, antiinfective medicinal chemistry an
d drug treatment of common infectious disease entities, along with an
applied microbiology skills laboratory was developed and begun in Fall
semester 1996. The course is taught by four faculty members with medi
cal, pharmacy practice, and medicinal chemistry training. There are 40
lectures and five exams. The course is divided into four weeks of mic
robiology, six weeks of medicinal chemistry, and five weeks of disease
therapeutics. This course is part of an integrated year long sequence
of medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, and therapeutic
applications. The course content and delivery were assessed using an i
nstrument made up of course objectives and topic headings.