Clinical Pharmacokinetics

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is for professionals or students looking to build their clinical pharmacokinetic knowledge. You might be an undergraduate pharmacy student, a postgraduate pharmacy student or a pharmacist in clinical practice. You can use the hashtag #pharmacokinetics to talk about this course on social media.

• The fish tank – A simplified model of first-order elimination
• Dosing basics – How to determine the right amount of drug for a patient
• The ups and downs of predicting changes in drug concentration
• The challenges of assessing renal and hepatic clearance
• What pharmacists need to know about dosing aminoglycosides and vancomycin
• Clinical application - vancomycin and gentamycin case practice