aFALK1_11 Pharmacy Practice I

Faculty of Pharmacy
Autumn 2025

The course is not taught in Autumn 2025

Extent and Intensity
2/0/2. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PharmDr. Tünde Ambrus, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Jozef Kolář, CSc. (lecturer)
PharmDr. Lenka Smejkalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PharmDr. Martin Šimíček (lecturer)
PharmDr. Dominik Grega, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Jozef Kolář, CSc. (seminar tutor)
PharmDr. Lenka Smejkalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PharmDr. Martina Šutorová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PharmDr. Lenka Smejkalová, Ph.D.
Department of Applied Pharmacy – Departments – Faculty of Pharmacy
Prerequisites (in Czech)
aFAUF1_11 Introduction to Pharmacy
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
The course aims for a detailed practical familiarization with implementing rules of specific pharmacy practice activities. Mainly the activity of dispensing, information and consultation, control, supply, storage, and administrative. No less important are the areas related to the preparation of medicines and the scope of work with information systems, both for processing operational data and when searching for professional information for pharmacotherapeutic consultations and health support. Another area of interest in pharmacy will touch on management, marketing, and pharmacy management.
Learning outcomes
By completing the course, the student will be able to:
describe the principles of price setting of medicinal products, medical devices and apply these principles in practice;
describe the principles of individual activities of pharmacy practice (dispensing, administrative, quality control, audits, preparing of medicinal products);
search for information on medicinal products and medical devices in professional databases;
to apply basic methods of communication in pharmacy practice;
actively work in pharmacy administrative systems.
Key topics
  • Topics of lectures and seminars
  • - Good Pharmacy Practice - dispensing, information and consultation activities
  • - Good Pharmacy Practice - compounding of medicinal products
  • - Good Pharmacy Practice – quality management of pharmacy care, inspection of pharmacies
  • - Good Pharmacy Practice – logistic activity; the relationship between pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers
  • - Documentation and administrative standards and procedures in relation to the provision of health care
  • - Pricing of pharmacy assortment
  • - Management, marketing, pharmacy economics and management models
  • - Cross-border healthcare and pharmacies
  • - Professional pharmaceutical activities in hospitals, status of hospital pharmacies
  • - Pharmacy and support of public health, participation of pharmacies in educational activities, media communication
  • - Information in healthcare and pharmacy, informatics in pharmacy, overview of relevant professional freely available and licensed information sources
  • - Pharmacy operational administration systems
  • - Current developments and expected future challenges of pharmacy
Study resources and literature
    recommended literature
  • European Pharmacopoeia
  • GILLIGAN, Colin; Robin LOWE and Peter CATTEE. Marketing and retail pharmacy. London: Routledge, 2021, 1 online. ISBN 9781315348858. URL info
  • Introduction to public health in pharmacy. Edited by Bruce Lubotsky Levin - Ardis Hanson - Peter D. Hurd. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 1 online. ISBN 9780190238339. URL info
  • KELLY, William N. Pharmacy : what it is and how it works. Fourth edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2018, xxi, 397. ISBN 9781138038332. info
  • Pharmaceutical practice. Edited by Judith A. Rees - Ian Smith - Jennie Watson. 5th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014, xvii, 552. ISBN 9780702051432. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Workshops
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
1. continuous evaluation and feedback within the teaching;
2. successful completion of continuous control tests and individual tasks;
3. project;
The subject is completed by a combined exam.
Language of instruction
English
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