Project Team
Mary Ayers
Project Manager

Phyllis Gardner
Former Dean
Education & Student Affairs

Brian Hoffman
Professor of Medicine

Lars Osterberg, MD
Course Director

Sankaran Ramalingam, MD
Writer

Patricia Youngblood, PhD
Educational Evaluator

Funding
Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden

Website: http://www.pharmapac.org

PharmaPac

PharmaPac is a two-week course for clinical students on clinical pharmacologic reasoning. The aim of the course is to strengthen and simplify the learning process of pharmacological principles by illustrating these principles in drug-related patient cases. Learning is in small groups interacting over the Web.

Patient cases help the student to argue about best choices of drug therapy and drug treatment schedule, to individualize dosage, and to learn critical parameters of drug effects and adverse events to be followed during the course of treatment. The student is trained in online literature searching, evaluating results from clinical trials, learning important mechanisms of action of drugs, and understanding how key pharmacokinetic and pharmaco-dynamic parameters affect drug response.

Project Status
PharmaPac is used at Stanford and other medical schools.