Spring 2027

Nonprescription Medications and Self-care

This course develops skills for performing triage and making self-care and therapeutic recommendations for self-limiting health conditions in pharmacy practice, focusing on nonprescription medications.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.21 GPA, 50.5% A/AB (n=97 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.22 GPA, 52.0% A/AB (n=125 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.99 GPA, 39.1% A/AB (n=133 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Discuss accessibility, affordability, trust, and empowerment regarding nonprescription products

  • Employ the QuEST SCHOLAR-MAC triage process and the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process to self-care cases and consultations

  • Recognize and respect patient experiences, cultural influences, health disparities, and social identity aspects during self-care cases and consultations

  • Discuss laws and liability related to nonprescription products and self-care consultations

  • Identify signs and symptoms of each health condition covered in this course

  • Discuss exclusions for self-care related to each health condition covered in this course

  • Differentiate self-care aspects given unique characteristics of the person being evaluated/advised (such as pediatrics, pregnancy & lactation, and older adults)

  • Classify individual nonprescription medications into distinct medication classes based on therapeutic use

  • Choose appropriate nonprescription medications and non-drug/general care measures for cases/situations

  • Explain common adverse effects and drug interactions for nonprescription medications and methods for managing them

  • Construct treatment plans, including key education points, for self-care of each health condition covered in this course

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in the Doctor of Pharmacy program

  • Declared in the Doctor of Pharmacy program
PHMPRAC 438

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  • Declared in the Doctor of Pharmacy program

Professors

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.21 GPA, 50.5% A/AB (n=97 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.22 GPA, 52.0% A/AB (n=125 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.99 GPA, 39.1% A/AB (n=133 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Signs, symptoms, and exclusions for self-limiting health conditions.
  • Nonprescription medication classification, adverse effects, and drug interactions.
  • Legal, ethical, and socioeconomic factors in nonprescription product use.
  • Special populations including pediatrics, pregnancy/lactation, and older adults.

Skills

  • Perform triage and make self-care and therapeutic recommendations using the QuEST SCHOLAR-MAC triage process and the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process.
  • Classify nonprescription medications by therapeutic class and choose appropriate non-drug or drug interventions for specific patient cases.
  • Construct treatment plans with key education points for managing self-limiting health conditions.
  • Integrate cultural influences, health disparities, and social identity considerations into patient consultations.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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