[e-drug] The 3rd P-drug workshop in Japan

[Uchida Eiji <uchieiji@med.showa-u.ac.jp>]

E-drug: The 3rd P-drug workshop in Japan
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Dear E-druggers,

I would like to inform you of the 3rd P-drug workshop in Japan as
follows:

THE THIRD P-DRUG WORKSHOP ON RATIONAL PHARMACOTHERAPY IN JAPAN
Announcement

BACKGROUND
The P-NET-J will be holding the Third P-drug Workshop on Rational 
(BPharmacotherapy in Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 9-11 August 2000.
The P-NET-J is the Japanese network for promoting rational$B!!(B
pharmacotherapy on the idea/methods outlined in the WHO$B!!(BGuide to Good
Prescribing. It is along with the activities of the International
Network for the Development of Pharmacotherapy Teaching (INDEPTH).
INDEPTH office is at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmacotherapy
Teaching and Training, the University of Groningen (RuG) in the
Netherlands, which offers International Course on Teaching Rational
pharmacotherapy.
The P-NET-J held the first workshop at Hamamatsu, 6 December 
1998,with the lectureship of Dr. HV Hogerzeil, WHO/DAP and the second 
at Hieizan near Kyoto, 27-29 August 1999, with Prof. Kumud Kumar 
Kafle Head, Dept of Clinical Pharmacology Institute of Medicine, TU 
Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. The present course will be given 
in English and the instructor will be Dr Karen Barnes, Senior 
Lecturer, Department of
Pharmacology, University of Cape Town.

VENUE
Seminar Plaza Suzukakedai, Tsukushino 3-2, Machida-City, Tokyo

DATE
9-11 August 2000

PROGRAM

Day 1  9 August, Wednesday
Participants as students
13:00 - 13:30  Introduction of participants and Course Objectives
13:30 - 14:30  Criteria for selection of Essential Drugs
14:30 - 15:30  The six steps of Rational Prescribing
15:30 - 15:45  Break
15:45 -16:15  Demonstration tutorial on selecting a drug for a
simple, uncomplicated problem (Activity: Perinatal HIV transmission reduction)
16:15 - 17:45  Discussion: problem based, student directed teaching
methodology.

Day 2  10 August, Thursday
Participants as facilitators
9:00 - 11:00  Develop a tutorial for a common condition. (Each
participant will facilitate
  one of the tutorials below)
11:00 - 11:15  Break
11:15 - 13:15  Facilitation of a tutorial on P-drug selection (small
group activity)
13:15 - 14:15  Break
14:15 - 15:15  Facilitation of tutorial on patient suitability (small
group activity)
15:15 - 15:30  Break
15:30 - 17:00  Facilitation of tutorial on writing a prescription,
communicating
information and monitoring (small group activity)

Day 3 11 August, Friday
Participants as facilitators
9:00 - 10:30  Plenary lecture: Assessing/examining students after a
problem-based
  course.
10:30 - 10:45  Break
10:45 - 12:00  Developing action plan for introduction of "The Guide to
Good
Prescribing" at participants teaching institutions.
12:00     Closure

FEES
Japanese Yen 25,000 (US$ 230) including materials, accommodation and
food.

APPLICATION
Application deadline is 31 July 2000
Maximum number of the participants is 30.

Course Secretariat:
Ms. Keiko KIYONO and/or Ms. Kyoko TADA
c/o Controller Committee
Kobayashi-bld. 3F, 1-2-9, Ebisu-Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
150-0022, Japan
tel: +81-3-3791-0202
fax: +81-3-3791-0191
e-mail: cont@super.win.ne.jp
URL: http://www1.sphere.ne.jp/p-drug/ (partly in Japanese)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair: Eiji UCHIDA, Second Dept. of Pharmacology, Showa University,
   Tokyo, Japan
P-drug Network Japan (P-NET-J) (Chair: Prof. Kiichiro TSUTANI, Dept. of
Clinical
   Pharmacology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
The course is supported by the Japan Society of Clinical Pharmacology
and
   Therapeutics (JSCPT), The Japan Society of Pharmacoepidemiology
(JSPE),
   and the Japanese informal Network for the Cochrane Collaboration
(JANCOC).
Partial contribution is being provided by Obara Foundation Hospital,
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, and Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd.

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Eiji Uchida, MD,PhD
Associate Professor, Second Department of Pharmacology
Showa University, School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai,
Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan
Tel. +81-3-3784-8128,  Fax. +81-3-3784-3200
E-mail: uchieiji@med.showa-u.ac.jp
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