Teaching

• Seminar Clinical Pharmacy (including patient-case-based exercises).
• Lecture and practical course Pharmacotherapy I and II
• Lecture and practical course in pathology I and II
• Lecture Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
• Clinical pharmacy elective (research internship on the ward)
• Seminar Current Issues in Clinical Pharmacy (only Dipl.-Pharm. course)

In the practice pharmacy, the focus is initially on content relating to self-medication in the internship as part of the course on the teaching of diseases in the 5th and 6th semesters of pharmacy. First of all, students are taught the basics of self-medication as well as counseling, communication and feedback skills to prepare them both professionally and socially for the professional field of public pharmacy. Subsequently, the students are given the opportunity to actively practice counseling situations themselves in role plays with simulated patients. In doing so, the students are explicitly allowed to make mistakes in order to learn from them. The objective is to translate the scientific content in a way that is understandable for patients and to use it practically in an individual consultation according to relevant guideline standards.

After the three main pillars of "questioning, deciding and informing" about self-medication are in the foreground in the 5th and 6th semesters, the aspect of communication about the prescription is practiced with the patients in the 7th and 8th semesters. Drug interactions, for example, are to be recognized and suitable solutions for clinical management are to be developed. Of course, communication with physicians also plays an important role.

In the practical course Medication Management, which takes place in the 8th semester as a cooperation project with Pharmaceutical-Medical Chemistry, the focus is on structured, systematic and documented medica​tion management. Elements, as they are already lived in practice in the Saxon pharmacies in ARMIN ("Arzneimittelinitiative Sachsen-Thüringen")​, are taught in the course. This helps students to cope better and more routinely with the complex tasks of medication management later on in their professional lives. The decisive factor here is that the students work on complex, realistic case vignettes over the duration of an internship with a view to identifying and solving medication-related problems. In close coordination with the assistants, the solution strategies are researched, documented in writing and discussed orally (for example in a simulated patient or physician interview). It is important that fictitious but realistic patients – as in professional practice – are cared for over a certain period of time and that changes in the clinical situation and current laboratory values are taken into account.

The overall curriculum in clinical pharmacy is designed by a university lecturer appointed for the subject of clinical pharmacy (pharmacist specialist in clinical pharmacy and pharmacist specialist in drug information) with teaching authorization (venia legendi) for the subjects of clinical pharmacology, pharmacoepidemiology and clinical pharmacy.

The teaching of Clinical Pharmacy is an integral part of the Institute of Pharmacy. This allows a close coordination with related courses of other pharmaceutical disciplines such as pharmacology, biopharmacy (pharmaceutical technology), clinical chemistry or the clinical application of molecular biologically produced therapies (pharmaceutical biology).

Clinically and scientifically active physicians as well as pharmacists with clinical and pharmaceutical experience from practice (teacher practitioners) are also involved in the teaching of clinical pharmacy. In this way, a scientifically sound and interdisciplinary teaching of the patient-oriented teaching content is ensured.

​The "Approbationsordnung für Apotheker (AAppO)" (licensing regulations for pharmacists) and the consensus recommendations of the specialist group Clinical Pharmacy of the DPhG were taken into account in the conception. In addition, the curriculum has been shaped by many years of international exchange of experience with teachers and researchers in clinical pharmacy and the Bologna process. The courses in clinical pharmacy can therefore be optimally networked with other courses of study in Germany and abroad.

The manageable number of pharmacy students allows for effective and individualized teaching and learning, especially in case-based work. Special courses are offered together with hospital pharmacists and public research and teaching pharmacies. In communication seminars, the implementation of scientific-founded contents in discussion situations of pharmacists with physicians or patients is practiced under authentic conditions. Aspects of communication science are taken into account as well as the pharmacist's scientific perspective. In a training pharmacy (skills lab), the first steps in consultation situations are then possible under realistic conditions (e.g. using pharmacy software) – without having to involve real patients/customers.

Ward rounds and special pharmaceutical teaching rounds in close cooperation with hospital physicians and pharmacists enable pharmacy students to become familiar with patient care on hospital wards. In addition, seminars on drug information and pharmacoepidemiology, for example, teach students about aspects of clinical research and medical-scientific departments in pharmaceutical companies and government agencies.

Voluntary internships during the course of study offer the opportunity for particularly interested students to participate in research work in clinical pharmacy and to set the first course towards their own scientific activity in this field.​

In addition, members of the Clinical Pharmacy Department participate in other internationally oriented Master's programs and research programs at the University of Leipzig and are involved in innovative stud​y programs (e.g. MasterOnline of the Department of Dental Preservation and Periodontology, University Hospital Freiburg). In addition, staff members are regularly involved as speakers in continuing education events, especially in cooperation with the German Pharmaceutical Society and the Saxon Chamber of Pharmacists.