Klinická farmácia

Graduate of the study program Clinical Pharmacy - 3rd degree (PhD) shall master the scientific methods of research in study program Clinical Pharmacy focusing on the effective and safe use of medicines. The focus covers one or more of the following areas of clinical pharmacy: preclinical and clinical evaluation of new drugs, clinical pharmacokinetics, prevention and pharmacotherapy of acute and chronic diseases, pharmacotherapeutic problems and drug errors, pharmaceutical care, rational use of drugs in risk groups of patients, drug toxicology, pharmacogenetics and pharmacovigilance.

During their doctoral study, the students in the study program Clinical Pharmacy (3.degree of university education) shall obtain knowledge from the area of clinical pharmacy , with focus on use of medicines, with an emphasis on their rational and safe use, to provide information and advice on medicines as such, including their proper use, to report adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals to the competent authorities, to provide personal assistance to patients taking medicines, to contribute to local and national public health campaigns, drug regulation and the provision of clinical pharmaceutical care. The graduate of the doctoral study shall be able to identify and formulate scientific problems, carry out experiments, obtain experimental data, and to process the obtained data and to interpret them taking into account the current state of knowledge, to formulate conclusions and publish them in the scientific and expert literature. In addition, the graduate shall be capable of performing active teaching activities. During their study, the students shall learn to master scientific methods of research and development in the study program clinical pharmacy and related study programs, i.e. to self-sufficiently formulate the scientific problem, to formulate scientific hypothesis, to prepare and realize a scientific experiment. The main purpose of these activities is the theoretical as well as practical mastering of methods used in clinical pharmaceutical research of medicines.

Graduates of the study program Clinical Pharmacy shall master the principles and methodology of scientific work and shall be qualified to carry out expert and scientific activities in the areas of pharmacy and pharmaceutical research with emphasis on clnical pharmaceutical and clinical pharmacological aspects. The graduates of the study program Clinical Pharmacy shall demonstrably have broad theoretical knowledge that shall, together with practical skills, enable them to: perform scientific research and bring novel knowledge as well as their own solutions of problems in the area of clinical pharmacy that can be used at the theoretical level and pharmacotherapeutic practice, possibly for the development of other related programs.

Theoretical knowledge and practical skills obtained during the study shall enable the graduates also to perform the profession of a researcher in related medicinal, pharmaceutical and life-science scientific disciplines and study programs, such as clinical pharmacology, retail pharmacy-social pharmacy, pharmacology, toxicology, molecular biology, applied biochemistry, immunology. The graduates of the study program Clinical Pharmacy shall have the ability to work as self-sufficient scientists and to bring their own solutions in the listed scientific disciplines and study programs. The graduates of the program Clinical Pharmacy shall have demonstrably mastered the principles of scientific work, fundamentals of scientific formulation of clinical pharmaceutical and clinical pharmacological problems, mastered the legal aspects of clinical research, ethical and social aspects of scientific work, presentation of results to the expert public at conferences and scientific events and in the form of publishing articles in expert, particularly scientific journals.

Graduates of the doctoral study program Clinical Pharmacy can find their job in the resort of education, as university teachers or scientific researchers at universities or institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences with focus on pharmacy, medicine, medical sciences and life sciences. The graduates are at present demanded also in the health sector, such as the State Institute for Drug Control that ensures the supervision on quality, efficacy, safety of drugs and medical devices. The graduates of the study program are also able to work in pharmaceutical companies devoted to research and development of drugs and medicinal products and ensuring the availability of medicinal products for the system of healthcare provision, as well as in companies that realize on-demand evaluation and solution of clinical-pharmaceutical and clinical-pharmacological procedures and problems.

Graduates of the study program Clinical Pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Comenius University Bratislava shall master the principles and methodology of scientific work and shall be eligible to carry out expert and scientific work in the area of clinical pharmacy, pharmacy and pharmaceutical research. Theoretical knowledge and practical skills obtained during their study shall enable them to perform the profession of a scientific worker in related medicinal, pharmaceutical and life science scientific disciplines and study programs, such as molecular biology, applied biochemistry, normal and pathologic physiology, toxicology, immunology, retail-pharmacy-social pharmacy. Graduates of the study program shall be able of self-sufficient scientific work, to bring their own solution and thus contribute to the development of scientific knowledge in the listed scientific disciplines and study programs. They shall have the prerequisites for their successful employment in the leadership of teams in a wide spectrum of scientific and research institutions focused on pharmaceutical, medical sciences or health sciences, they shall be professionally prepared for creative work at scientific institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, at various levels of research. They shall equally be prepared to work in the regulatory area as expert assessors in higher expert activities of the assessment of preclinical and clinical research of drugs, medicinal products and therapeutic procedures, they shall be prepared to work at work positions with a high level of competence and responsibility in companies realizing clinical research of drugs, medicinal products and therapeutic procedures as well as at work positions with a high level of competence and responsibility in companies ensuring the placement of medicinal products to the market, companies ensuring the availability of medicinal products and medical devices and in healthcare facilities ensuring provision of healthcare.

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