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Apr 18, 2024
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AHE 177 - Over the Counter Drugs
2.0 Credits
Covers medications available to patients without prescription, including herbal medications and supplements, cold/flu prescriptions, gastrointestinal preparations, topical products. Includes conversion of specific legend drugs to OTC status. Prerequisite
AHE 110, AHE 116, BSTEC 104 and BSTEC 129 all with a minimum grade of 2.0 or equivalent. Corequisite
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Access information resources and identify whether a drug is legend or OTC.
- Identify commonly stocked OTC products and describe their intended use.
- Discuss and describe the rationale and regulation used by the FDA to determine the OTC or legend status of a particular drug or preparation.
- Describe important drug to drug interactions for selected OTC products.
- List important contraindications for selected OTC products.
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