Clinical pharmacology
The Clinical Pharmacology is a human medical field. It deals with all aspects of the use of drugs in humans, both before (phases I-III) and after approval of a drug (phase IV). Clinical pharmacology closes the gap between basic pharmacology and medical practice. Their main goal is the most effective and safe use of medicines. In clinical practice, close cooperation with clinical pharmacy is important.
Clinical pharmacology tasks
Typical tasks of clinical pharmacology include
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research
- Planning, implementation and evaluation of
- clinical studies with drugs (phase I-IV) as well as of
- non-interventional studies .
- Planning, implementation and evaluation of
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Health care
- Pharmaceutical information service (usually with reference to a specific case).
- Visiting support .
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Teaching
- Training of medical students in the clinical part of the degree.
- Further training for doctors (e.g. rational drug therapy).
Clinical pharmacology in Germany
The German clinical pharmacologists are among others in the Association for Clinical Pharmacology in Germany e. V. (VKliPha) and in the Working Group for Applied Human Pharmacology e. V. (AGAH).
The specialist in clinical pharmacology
In order to work as a specialist in clinical pharmacology after completing a medical degree in Germany , a five-year further training course is required at a further training facility in accordance with Section 5 (1) sentence 2 WBO :
- 24 months of basic training in pharmacology
- 12 months of which in the areas of immediate patient care, which can also be carried out during specialist training
- 36 months of advanced training as a specialist in clinical pharmacology
- of this, up to 12 months can be credited in the areas of immediate patient care.
The areas of direct patient care in this sense include general medicine , anesthesiology , ophthalmology , surgery , gynecology and obstetrics , ear, nose and throat medicine , skin and venereal diseases , human genetics , internal medicine , child and adolescent medicine , child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy , Oral and maxillofacial surgery , neurosurgery , neurology , physical and rehabilitative medicine , psychiatry and psychotherapy , psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy , radiation therapy and urology .
statistics
- On December 31, 2018, 333 clinical pharmacologists were registered with the German Medical Association .
literature
- Martin Wehling: Clinical Pharmacology. Thieme Verlag, ISBN 3-13-126821-2 (textbook).
- Markus Viethen: career planner doctor. Thieme Verlag, ISBN 3-13-116105-1 .
- P. Marfori: Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology. Translated from Italian and adapted to German conditions by C. Bachem in Bonn. Leipzig 1922 (historical textbook).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Leaflet (PDF file; 74 kB) of the Bavarian State Medical Association, as of April 1, 2011, accessed on April 27, 2012.
- ↑ Results of the physician statistics as of December 31, 2018 (PDF file; 1.5 MB)