Clinical Therapeutics

Clinical Therapeutics: This includes soliciting patient preferences and values, evidence-based therapeutics and knowledge exchange to providers and patients.

CLINICAL THERAPEUTICS

The Mission Statement

The mission of the clinical therapeutics domain is to develop­­­­­ individuals who, upon graduation, have the ability to conduct evidence based research and practice and to select appropriate therapies for the patient while addressing research questions and methodologies in order to solve complex problems in a clinical setting, thereby being able to participate in independent and collaborative research and teaching of clinical therapeutics for improvement of health in Canada and throughout the world. 

A Description of the Clinical Therapeutics Domain

The clinical therapeutics domain aims to provide trainees with the skills needed to conduct evidence based practice by taking into account adverse drug reactions, patient adherence, drug interactions, and patient variability. As well, trainees will learn how to make appropriate drug and therapy choices for the individualized patient based on consideration of non-drug therapies, and all relevant approved drugs to create an individualized therapy plan.  Overall the clinical therapeutics domain provides trainees with the skills to teach and provide leadership as collaborators in laboratories, and clinical and health settings.

How Clinical Therapeutics links to drug safety and effectiveness research and the implications for training in this field…

The clinical therapeutics domain will expose trainees to clinical therapeutics concepts in drug safety and effectiveness research including adverse drug reactions, patient adherence, and selection of the most appropriate therapy for the individualized patient.  This domain addresses the importance of conducting evidence based practice to guide patient therapy choices.  Working on problems with researchers from other domains, we hope that graduates focusing on clinical therapeutics will possess the following skills:

  • a strong foundation in clinical therapeutics concepts/techniques and their application to individualized drug and non-drug therapies
  • the ability to critically appraise research methodologies, proposals, and manuscripts
  • the ability to develop or contribute to the development of grant proposals as clinicians
  • the ability to teach or communicate clinical therapeutics concepts effectively to non-clinicians
  • the ability to formulate clinical research questions, and design and implement studies  to answer these questions; and
  • the ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team to make the best decisions for patients

Online Clinical Therapeutics resources in the context of drug safety and effectiveness research