Pharmacoinformatics Clerkship: HIV Pharmacotherapy

Goals and Objectives:

1. To provide a structured experience for students to develop web-based content.
2. To become familiar with the Health Sciences Library and the ECMC library.
3. To become familiar with the HIV Clinic at ECMC or Children's Hospital.
4. To develop skills in conducting literature searches, identifying key medical journals and textbooks.
5. To learn to summarize primary literature in tables and figures.
6. To review HIV patients currently seen at ECMC or Children's Hospital of Buffalo (Pediatric HIV Clinic).
7. To develop algorithms for approaching HIV-related drug interactions and adverse effects.

Completion of the Clerkship

The clerkship will be complete when the student has provided:

1. an email with attachments of word and PowerPoint files
2. a disk with the same files
3. hard copies of all primary references
4. print out of pertinent PowerPoint presentations
5. completion of evaluation

Description of Activities

Purpose

To develop skills in case-based, self-directed learning (and teaching), literature retrieval, critical assessment, and medical writing and contribute to an innovative national program which integrates education, clinical care and research in HIV pharmacotherapy.

Overview

The general focus of the activities will be to help develop and update material for the HIV pharmacotherapy website (http://hiv.buffalo.edu).

• The projects will ALL be largely "independent" and somewhat self-directed with periodic meetings to discuss issues/progress/problems.
• All projects will be focused on HIV, although many other non-HIV issues are presented and you can focus to some degree on your particular areas of interest.
• There is some opportunity for direct patient contact, although this cannot be guaranteed in all cases.