Staff

Vision

• In an interdisciplinary team, the Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy creates a structural and functional connection between medicine and pharmacy in patient care, research, and teaching. 
• The Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy attends to all processes affecting effectiveness and safety of drug therapy.
• The Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy determines modulators of effectiveness, develops and evaluates strategies for individualized therapy.

Structure 

• The Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy is financed by the Hospital Pharmacy and Department of Internal Medicine VI, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology. 
• The Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy is responsible for clinical pharmacy in research and teaching according to the License Ordinance for Pharmacists at the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, University Heidelberg. 

Fields of activity

• Drug information systems
• Model wards for Clinical Pharmacy
• Pharmaceutical care 
• Teaching in clinical pharmacy according to the License Ordinance for Pharmacists

Projects

• In close collaboration with physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, clinical pharmacists support processes of drug distribution and dosage individualization in patient care. Furthermore, strategies to solve drug related problems are developed while strictly following principles of quality management.
• The research of the Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmcy aims at clinical contents of drug therapy optimization and uses case related and epidemiological methods as well as electronic devices. Detection, documentation, and resolution of drug related problems (e.g. noncompliance, interactions, dosage individualization) and seamless care are matters of particular interest.
• The Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy is responsible for the teaching and examination in clinical pharmacy at the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology. Education, training, and the specialisation are undertaken by a team of physicians and pharmacists, both in theory through lectures and in practice through bed side teaching. 

Teaching 

• Winter term

5th term

• Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomy
  lecture/seminar; 2 h/week; certificate

7th term

• Clinical Pharmacy (part 1)
  lecture/seminar; 2 h/week; certificate
• Pathophysiology
  (execution: Department of General Practice and Health Services Research)
  lecture/seminar; 4 h/week; certificate
• Ward Round
  seminar; by arrangement
• Drug Information Services in Clinical Pharmacy
  practical training; by arrangement

Main course

• Elective Clinical Pharmacy
  practical training; by arrangement

• Summer term

6th term

• Community Pharmacy
  lecture/seminar; 1 h/week; block seminar
• Specific Legislation for Pharmacists
  lecture/seminar; 1 h/week; block seminar

8th term

• Clinical Pharmacy (part 2)
  lecture/seminar; 4 h/week; certificate
• Clinical Pharmacy
  (individualised pharmacotherapy)
  lecture/seminar; 1 h/week; certificate
• Pharmacotherapy
  (execution: Institute of Pharmacology)
  lecture/seminar; 4 h/week; certificate
• Ward Round
  seminar; by arrangement
• Drug Information Services in Clinical Pharmacy
  practical training; by arrangement

Main course

• Elective Clinical Pharmacy
  practical training; by arrangement

All teaching is held in German.

Services

• External: For dose individualization in patients with renal insufficiency see http://www.dosing.de/, for information on electronic drug information system AiDKlinik http://www.aidklinik.de/, and for the Integrated care project HeiCare® http://www.heicare.de/
• Internal (throughout the whole University Hospital Heidelberg): electronic drug information system AiDKlinik.

Cooperations

• Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Bonn
• Department Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, Marthin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
• Département de Pharmacie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
• Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (Sweden)
• Chamber of Pharmacists Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• AOK Baden-Württemberg, Health Insurance Company
• Department of Restorative Dentistry and Periodontics, University Hospital Freiburg
• Department of Internal Medicine II, Psychosomatic and General Clinical Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg
• Department of Internal Medicin IV, Gastroenterology, Infections, Intoxications, University Hospital Heidelberg
• Department of Internal Medicine VII, Sports Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg
• Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg
• Supra-regional Center for Pain Medicine Heidelberg - Mannheim, Center for Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Clinic for Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Heidelberg
• Children's Hospital, Department Pediatric Neurology, Epilepsy Centre, University Hospital Heidelberg
• Institute of  Pharmacy and Moleculare Biotechnology (IPMB), University of Heidelberg

Teaching and researching pharmacies

• "Fortuna"-Pharmacy, Mannheim
• "Forum"-Pharmacy, Heidelberg
• "Stadt"-Pharmacy, Walldorf
• "Caspari"-Pharmacy, Wilhelmsfeld
• "Paracelsus"-Pharmacy, Neckargemünd
• "Hessel"-Pharmacy, Wiesloch
• "Bahnhof"-Pharmacy, Eberbach/Neckar
• "Waldstadt"-Pharmacy, Mosbach
• "Wildpark"-Pharmacy, Schwarzach

Last update: July 8th, 2009