Veterinary Medicine: Advanced Specialized Training for Pharmacy Professionals [Technician]

Upon successful completion of this module, pharmacy technicians should be able to:
1. Review the etiology and pathophysiology of common endocrine diseases of canine and feline patients.
2. Recognize clinical signs and symptoms presentations of common endocrine diseases in canine and feline patients.
3. Describe treatment options for common endocrine diseases for canine and feline patients.
4. Identify the goals of therapy for each common endocrine disease for canine and feline patients.
5. Evaluate patient cases to determine counseling points for feline patients.
6. Examine treatment options for a feline patient with a common endocrine disease.

Upon successful completion of this module, pharmacy technicians should be able to:
1. Review the etiology and pathophysiology of common cardiac diseases in canine and feline patients.
2. Recognize clinical signs and symptoms presentations of common cardiac diseases in canine and feline patients.
3. Describe treatment options for common cardiac diseases in canine and feline patients.
4. Identify the goals of therapy for each common cardiac disease in canine and feline patients.
5. Evaluate a patient case to determine counseling points for a feline patient with a cardiac disease.
6. Examine treatment options for a feline and canine patient with a common cardiac disease.

Upon successful completion of this module, pharmacy technicians should be able to:
1. Review the etiology and pathophysiology of common neurologic diseases for canine and feline patients.
2. Recognize clinical signs and symptom presentations of common neurologic diseases for canine and feline patients.
3. Describe treatment options for common neurologic diseases for canine and feline patients.
4. Identify the goals of therapy for each common neurologic disease for canine and feline patients.
5. Evaluate patient cases to determine counseling points for canine and feline patients.
6. Examine treatment options for a feline and canine patient with a common neurologic disease.

Upon successful completion of this module, pharmacy technicians should be able to:
1. Discuss the epidemiology and lifecycle of flea, tick, and heartworm parasites.
2. Describe preventative agents for flea, tick, and heartworm parasites.
3. Identify infectious diseases that are spread by parasites, and their symptoms.
4. Recognize treatments for infectious diseases spread by parasites.
5. Examine feline and canine cases to support the pharmacist in recommending prevention and treatment of flea, tick, and heartworm.

Upon successful completion of this module, pharmacy technicians should be able to:
1. Discuss where errors in nonsterile compounding are likely to occur and ways to prevent them.
2. Review the laws surrounding nonsterile compounding in veterinary practice.
3. Identify good compounding practices for compounding nonsterile preparations for veterinary patients.
4. Describe the components, steps, and techniques for preparing suspensions and transdermal compounds.
5. Create a procedure for a nonsterile preparation for a patient case.