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Good Day All,
It has been quite a while since I have visited this forum. I have read quite a lot of advice over time and mainly lurked in the background. In the past year, I became certified and have become obsessed with teaching myself pharmacy related information. So I designed a few interactive modules to help others learn, relearn, or solidify material needed to understand our field. I feel that offering these activities online would not only help in my studying but others as well. There certainly does not seem to be a great deal of free training in regards to the basics. So please feel free to check out the programs available at my website, http://www.studyrx.org
Now, my main objective is for a program like four point or visual verify. Basically, someone checking my work. I am pretty confident that the material presently available is correct but I wouldn't mind someone mentioning if they do see something that is wrong. There really isn't a lot of hits because I recently went online, and that is why I prefer to fix the errors early on. Asking on a related forum seemed like the ideal way to find individuals who understand the material and can spot mistakes at a glance.
At the end of this month, I will be debuting a system that allows users to create custom patients (including all general information, known medical conditions, known drug allergies plus fill history), along with custom doctors (including all general information). The basic idea is to create from these prefilled profiles, prescriptions that test the visitor/user/member's knowledge with questions attached to each prescription.
As an example, a user creates a prescription for Accutane given to a patient who was prescribed (by a different doctor), Prenatal Vitamins 2 days prior. Now, hopefully, from prior knowledge we know that Accutane requires a pregnancy test. This would probably be unlikely in a real world scenario (let me know if I'm wrong) but it would leave it open to teach the user viewing the specific prescription to answer the attached question (there can be multiple questions) that asks "What is the problem when viewing the prescription?" and the answer would be "Accutane is a Prescription Drug with a Black Box Warning so the Prenatal Vitamins is a clue to call the doctor.
It doesn't make sense to those who know because of the laws governing these drugs and what doctor's have to do. However, hopefully it will help teach people about the drug and what to look out for. I don't want to set a time frame in stone, but it looks like this will go BETA by the end of the month. I just need to recruit some individuals who would be willing to help create a few prescriptions that will build up the supply of prescriptions available to visitors. I plan on developing 20-30 profiles of each (doctor and patient) before it is available to the public, but think help from users to develop realistic prescriptions would be best done by a group of individuals rather than one person. All material will be able to be created by visitors but would have to be published by an admin so that spam is controlled.
I hope this seems interesting or at least, understandable. The coolest feature is attached prescriptions. For example, if you create a patient profile and attach medical conditions and allergies to that person, then it will appear whenever you apply that person to a prescription. Consequently, if you create a prescription for a patient who already has a prescription or prescriptions under them, they will automatically show up in the fill history when viewing that prescription. However, if you view the older prescription, the ones published later will not appear when viewing that prescription.
Anyways, I think I have typed for too long. I may have lost a lot of people towards the end. Please visit the website and let me know your opinions. For the available modules, items can be added and levels can be built if you have any ideas for some. I have been building them for the past week, and still in the process of creating so please be patient.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Steven
It has been quite a while since I have visited this forum. I have read quite a lot of advice over time and mainly lurked in the background. In the past year, I became certified and have become obsessed with teaching myself pharmacy related information. So I designed a few interactive modules to help others learn, relearn, or solidify material needed to understand our field. I feel that offering these activities online would not only help in my studying but others as well. There certainly does not seem to be a great deal of free training in regards to the basics. So please feel free to check out the programs available at my website, http://www.studyrx.org
Now, my main objective is for a program like four point or visual verify. Basically, someone checking my work. I am pretty confident that the material presently available is correct but I wouldn't mind someone mentioning if they do see something that is wrong. There really isn't a lot of hits because I recently went online, and that is why I prefer to fix the errors early on. Asking on a related forum seemed like the ideal way to find individuals who understand the material and can spot mistakes at a glance.
At the end of this month, I will be debuting a system that allows users to create custom patients (including all general information, known medical conditions, known drug allergies plus fill history), along with custom doctors (including all general information). The basic idea is to create from these prefilled profiles, prescriptions that test the visitor/user/member's knowledge with questions attached to each prescription.
As an example, a user creates a prescription for Accutane given to a patient who was prescribed (by a different doctor), Prenatal Vitamins 2 days prior. Now, hopefully, from prior knowledge we know that Accutane requires a pregnancy test. This would probably be unlikely in a real world scenario (let me know if I'm wrong) but it would leave it open to teach the user viewing the specific prescription to answer the attached question (there can be multiple questions) that asks "What is the problem when viewing the prescription?" and the answer would be "Accutane is a Prescription Drug with a Black Box Warning so the Prenatal Vitamins is a clue to call the doctor.
It doesn't make sense to those who know because of the laws governing these drugs and what doctor's have to do. However, hopefully it will help teach people about the drug and what to look out for. I don't want to set a time frame in stone, but it looks like this will go BETA by the end of the month. I just need to recruit some individuals who would be willing to help create a few prescriptions that will build up the supply of prescriptions available to visitors. I plan on developing 20-30 profiles of each (doctor and patient) before it is available to the public, but think help from users to develop realistic prescriptions would be best done by a group of individuals rather than one person. All material will be able to be created by visitors but would have to be published by an admin so that spam is controlled.
I hope this seems interesting or at least, understandable. The coolest feature is attached prescriptions. For example, if you create a patient profile and attach medical conditions and allergies to that person, then it will appear whenever you apply that person to a prescription. Consequently, if you create a prescription for a patient who already has a prescription or prescriptions under them, they will automatically show up in the fill history when viewing that prescription. However, if you view the older prescription, the ones published later will not appear when viewing that prescription.
Anyways, I think I have typed for too long. I may have lost a lot of people towards the end. Please visit the website and let me know your opinions. For the available modules, items can be added and levels can be built if you have any ideas for some. I have been building them for the past week, and still in the process of creating so please be patient.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Steven
