About the Course

This is the course unit 5 of the Fellowship in Medical Humanitarian Action: Coordination of Pharmacy Management.

In this course unit, you will develop your competencies and skills to coordinate pharmacy management in order to favour coherence between pharmacy management needs and strategies through an appropriate leadership and ensuring process and analysis quality.

Target audience

This course unit is available to all the participants to the Fellowship course of Medical Humanitarian Action.

Duration

80 h

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course unit, you will be able to:

• Supervise pharmacy procurement and storage rules application/use and Good distribution practices (including cold chain management)
• Monitor and promote rational use management & safe medication practices
• Evaluate quality of patient therapy education (PTE)
• Negotiate with partners and headquarters (access to drugs)
• Coordinate in collaboration with Medical, Supply Chain and Logistic departments, the application of an effective policy for warehousing and transportation of medical products (Warehousing and transportation)

List of contents

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Pharmacy management

Module 3: Quality use of medical products

Module 4: Context analysis - access to medical products

Module 5: Procurement of medical products

Module 6: Conclusion

How to enrol

This course unit is only available to the participants to the Fellowship course of Medical Humanitarian Action. To be enrolled in this course, you need to be selected by your OC. The selection is done once per year. Please contact your pool managers, development advisors and/or HRcos.

Certification

Badge at completion of the course.