Welcome to this course of Senior Pharmacy Clerkship. This course is designed to give a clear guidance to you along your practices prior to graduation. The course covers three main areas of Pharmacy Practice in Rwanda namely Hospital Pharmacy Practice, Community Pharmacy Practice and Supply Chain Management System; which will deeply prepare you to become knowledgeable, skilled and competent pharmacy professional on the labor market. I hope you will mostly enjoy this useful course as you are preparing your career of pharmacy.
This course will provide the student with an introduction to the essential components of assessments of health technologies with a particular focus on drugs as technologies. During the course, the concept of health technology assessment and pharmacoeconomics and their different facets will be discussed. We will then delve more in depth into the specific methods that are used for the economic evaluations of new pharmaceuticals and new health technologies, and in doing so, will discuss specific issues that might be encountered when performing an economic analysis or evaluating an economic evaluation. The scientific entrepreneur illustrates through real life examples, how pharmaceutical and biotech companies have been set up and developed innovative products.