Master Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Apply It in Real-World Patient Care
Clinical Pharmacokinetics is a focused, application-driven course designed for pharmacy students, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians who want to deepen their understanding of how drugs behave in the body. The course will cover essential pharmacokinetic principles and equip learners with the skills to optimise drug therapy through individualised dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM).
What you’ll learn
- How to adjust drug doses using pharmacokinetics.
- Real clinical case studies with worked examples.
- PK parameters explained clearly for practice.
- When and how to use TDM in pharmacy settings.
- Dosage regimen design and time-to-steady-state.
- Nonlinear vs linear pharmacokinetics.
Course Content
- Module 1 Introduction –> 6 lectures • 37min.
- Module 2 Pharmacokinetic Parameters and their clinical Use –> 10 lectures • 55min.
- Module 3 Dosage Regimen Design –> 7 lectures • 32min.
- Module 4 Therapeutic Drug Monitoring –> 7 lectures • 18min.
- Module 5 Pharmacokinetics of key Drugs –> 10 lectures • 22min.
- Module 6: Role of Kidney in Drug Elimination –> 6 lectures • 13min.
- Module 7 Special Topics –> 7 lectures • 20min.
- Clinical PK Practice Test –> 1 lecture • 1min.
Requirements
Clinical Pharmacokinetics is a focused, application-driven course designed for pharmacy students, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians who want to deepen their understanding of how drugs behave in the body. The course will cover essential pharmacokinetic principles and equip learners with the skills to optimise drug therapy through individualised dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM).
The course will cover concepts such as absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME); the course progresses to advanced topics including volume of distribution (Vd), clearance (Cl), half-life (t½), bioavailability (F), area under the curve (AUC), and steady-state concentration (Css). Learners will also explore dosing interval (τ), accumulation, non-linear kinetics, concentration- versus time-dependent killing, and the design of dosage regimens.
Special attention will be given to pharmacokinetic variability, renal and hepatic function, dose adjustment in special populations, and other special pharmacokinetic topics.
You will have access to
- 7 modules (Video presentation, module handout, quizzes)
- Flashcards for each module
- Final Practice Test
- Case studies
By the end of this course, learners will be able to apply pharmacokinetic concepts confidently in clinical settings to support safe, effective, and evidence-based patient care. The course is also a valuable resource for exam preparation, including GPhC, NAPLEX, KAPS, and other international pharmacy licensing assessments