# \[e-drug\] PBL course on pharmacocotherapy announcement **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [July 5, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-pbl-course-on-pharmacocotherapy-announcement/14657 "2002-07-05T15:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Perla\_Mordujovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@Perla\_Mordujovich](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/Perla_Mordujovich)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-pbl-course-on-pharmacocotherapy-announcement/14657/1 "2002-07-05T15:05:14Z")
E-drug: PBL course on pharmacocotherapy announcement ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT FOURTH LATIN AMERICAN TRAINING COURSE ON TEACHING RATIONAL PHARMACOTHERAPY (spanish language) 7-18 october 2002. La Plata, Argentina ORGANISED BY: Cetedra de Farmacologica. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentine); EDM/PAR ,World Health Organization, Geneva. Switzerland;Pan-American Health Organization, Buenos Aires/Argentine - Washington/USA COURSE OBJECTIVES GENERAL OBJECTIVE The course is designed primarly for trainers to multiply this course on teachers of Pharmacotherapy ,Clinical Medicine,Pediatrics, Gerontology working in undergraduate or postgraduate settings,medical schools,teaching hospitals,etc. The course is also directed to teachers. The main aim of this course is to provide practical instructions in and experience of a problem-based approach in pharmacotherapy teaching. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES At the end of the Course, it is expected that the participants have: \* Obtained appropriate knowledge on problem-based method of learning/teaching medicine and pharmacotherapy. \* Obtained and experienced knowledge and necessary skills to train teachers to develop abilities to be facilitators. \* Obtained and experienced a methodology to facilitate the students to develop criteria to choose and apply drug therapy and/or appropriate treatment to solve health problems. \* Obtained the knowledge and necessary skills to plan, develop , implement and assess a problem-based pharmacotherapy course, in their own medical school or educational institution. \* Acquired critical apraissal in the use of sources of information about drugs and treatments. METHODOLOGY The course is based on the methodology developed by the University of Groningen, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Clinical Pharmacology (Netherlands). The principles of the model underly in the WHO Guide to Good Prescribing(1994)WHO Geneva.Switzerland .1994. This course was succesfully introduced in Europe,Africa and Asia, and since 1999 has been developed once a year in America, Argentina, in spanish , in the "Catedra de Farmacologica",Facultad de Ciencias Medicas , Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. FACULTY The Course will be facilitated by an academic staff of the" Universidad de La Plata" (Argentine). Also will be present representatives from the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland and/or from the Pan-American Health Organization, Buenos Aires/Argentina - Washington/USA. NUMBERS To achieve the maximum opportunities for small group work and interactive learning the course will be limited to 30 participants. LANGUAGE The working language of the course will be spanish. CONTACT INFORMATION For more information, and requests for registration, please contact: Dra. Perla M. de Buschiazzo Cetedra de Farmacologica. Facultad de Ciencias Medicas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata Calle 60 y 120- 3er piso La Plata.1900. ARGENTINA Tel/fax: 54 (221) 421-6932=20 Fax : 54 (221) 423-6710 E-mail: pmordujo@netverk.com.ar pmordujo@atlas.med.unlp.edu.ar -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@usa.healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@usa.healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html](http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html)