pharmacy
Clinical Pharmacy Internship
A two-week intensive internship built around hospital clinical practice.
Programme specification
Duration
2 weeksFormat
10 sessions, 5 days a week, 4 hours eachLocation
Cleopatra HospitalsTarget Audience
Year 4, 5, 6 pharmacy students and graduatesOverview
A two-week intensive clinical pharmacy internship covering the essential knowledge and practical skills a hospital pharmacist applies in patient care, delivered through structured clinical teaching and hospital exposure.
The programme runs five days a week across ten four-hour sessions, combining theoretical teaching, clinical case discussions, specialized medical rounds, and real hospital workflows.
Who this is for — and who it isn’t
This programme is for
- Senior pharmacy students (Years 4, 5, 6 / PharmD)
- Pharmacy graduates preparing for hospital and clinical practice
- Pharmacists seeking structured hospital clinical training
This programme is not for
- Students earlier than Year 4
- Those looking for an online-only theoretical course
- Those seeking a certificate without active training attendance
What you’ll experience
Clinical lectures & case reviews
Structured teaching across specialized hospital clinical modules.
Applied clinical reasoning
Real-world decision making on drug therapy, TDM, and dosage calculations.
Specialty medical rounds
Exposure to critical care, oncology, nephrology, cardiology, and transplant cases.
Medication management clinics
Outpatient clinic exposure to monitor therapy adherence and adverse drug reactions.
Clinical curriculum
- Introduction to clinical pharmacy: role and responsibilities, administration to Clinicys and Clinicare Pro systems
- FAST HUG MEDIANS criteria and proper clinical documentation
- Acute kidney injury (AKI) & clinical dose calculations
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD), hemodialysis & complications
- Respiratory tract infections (HAP / CAP / VAP)
- Asthma & COPD acute exacerbation management
- Gastrointestinal conditions: peptic ulcers & melena
- Chronic liver disease (CLD) clinical management
- Sepsis & septic shock: golden hour critical values
- Cardiology care: ACS, CABG, AF, acute & chronic heart failure
- Transplant evaluation process (crossmatching criteria and testing)
- High Highly Sensitized Patients premedication protocols
- Induction phase immunosuppressive therapy
- Pre-operative antibiotics & electrolyte disturbance management
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) & immunosuppressant selection during hospital stay
- Infectious prophylaxis regimens (CMV, PSP/PCP, Fungal)
- Acute & chronic rejection, and Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR)
- Post-transplant complications: New-Onset Diabetes and anemia After Transplant
- Pediatric transplant cases: proper adjustment and regimen choices
- Post-discharge follow-up: adverse drug reaction (ADR) monitoring & steroids de-escalation
- Pathogen spectrum (Gram+ / Gram- / anaerobes / fungi) & antimicrobial coverage
- Interpretation of diagnostic labs: CBC, CRP, PCT (Procalcitonin)
- Respiratory tract infections: CAP, VAP, HAP & aspiration pneumonia
- Urinary tract infections (UTI): complicated, uncomplicated & catheter-related UTI (CAUTI)
- Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI): cellulitis, diabetic foot ulcers & necrotizing fasciitis/gangrene
- Surgical wound infections, post-operative complications & osteomyelitis
- Severe specific infections: bacterial meningitis & infective endocarditis
- Sepsis and septic shock management: golden hour definition, risk-based antibiotic selection & empiric management
- Antimicrobial stewardship: multidrug resistance (MDR) types, treatment, prevention & restriction protocols
- Invasive fungal infections: antifungal indications & Aspergillosis coverage
- Acute kidney injury: prerenal, intrarenal, and postrenal clinical management
- Creatinine clearance calculation for acute kidney injury cases & identifying drug-induced AKI
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages, hypertension and diabetes control in CKD
- Electrolyte disturbances & nephrological emergency cases
- CKD complications: anemia due to CKD, bone mineral density complications & hyperparathyroidism
- Dialysis modalities: different types of dialysis & renal dose adjustments for medications
- Anticoagulation protocols in dialysis & infection prevention in dialysis access
- Emergency dialysis definition & clinical criteria
- Specific renal cases: lupus nephritis & nephrotic syndrome
- Hepatorenal syndromes (HRS) pathophysiology & management
- FAST HUG MEDIANS orientation & ICU bedside checklist
- Clinical dose calculations for renal and hepatic dysfunction, and obesity specification
- ICU sedation and analgesia choices
- Septic shock hemodynamic control & antimicrobial optimization
- Hypovolemic shock and cardiogenic shock pharmacotherapy
- Acute respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation support & severe COPD/asthma exacerbations
- Chronic liver disease complications in ICU
- Acute kidney injury & urgent hemodialysis in critical care
- Empirical antimicrobial choices for high-risk ICU infections
- Introduction to cancer cells, diagnostic tumor markers & chemotherapy cycles
- Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) prevention & management
- Hematologic malignancies: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) & Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
- Chronic leukemias: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) & Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
- Oncologic complications: severe neutropenia & febrile neutropenia management
- Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS) prophylaxis & management
- Solid organ malignancies: Colorectal Cancer & Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
- Hormone-sensitive tumors: Prostate Cancer & Breast Cancer therapies
- Metastatic disease care: bone & brain metastasis clinical management
- Chemotherapy common adverse effects, prevention & supportive treatment
- Cardiac biomarkers & echocardiography (ECHO) handling
- Hypertension evidence-based management
- Dyslipidemia management & pharmacotherapy
- Myocardial infarction: Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) & post-CABG medical care
- Valvular heart disease: rheumatic heart disease, TAVI, SAVR & mechanical prosthetic heart valve care
- Heart failure (HF): acute decompensated heart failure & chronic congestive heart failure
- Venous thromboembolism: pulmonary embolism (PE) & deep venous thrombosis (DVT)
- Cardiac arrhythmias & Atrial Fibrillation (AF) management
- Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) medical management
- Acute ischemic stroke clinical management
- Hemorrhagic stroke: subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) & intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and difference in treatment regimens from non-traumatic injuries
- Seizure disorders: different types and proper anticonvulsant treatment
- Neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson disease
- Dementia & Alzheimer disease pharmacotherapy
- Extrapyramidal manifestations & common neurology medication adverse effects
- Autoimmune and neuromuscular disorders: Guillain–Barré Syndrome & Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Psychiatric disorders in hospital settings (Bipolar, Schizophrenia) & neuropathic pain
- Stem cell biology & engraftment (based on testing)
- Bone marrow transplant types: autologous, allogeneic, and haploidentical transplants
- Candidate eligibility, pre-transplant preparation & donor selection
- Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD) prophylaxis protocols
- Inpatient stay care: pre-operative antibiotics & post-operative follow up
- Immunosuppressant therapy: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) & personalized patient selection
- Comprehensive infectious prophylaxis (CMV, PSP/PCP, Fungal)
- Complications: acute and chronic rejections, Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS) & mucositis management
- Post-transplant outpatient follow-up: adverse drug reaction monitoring, adherence & steroids de-escalation
- Specialty outpatient clinic rounds for regular clinical follow-up
- Comprehensive patient medication therapy monitoring
- Adverse drug reaction (ADR) assessment & patient adherence criteria
Where you train
Cairo
Training Partner
Cleopatra Hospitals Group
Hospital group in the Medical Minds clinical training network.
Investment & cohort dates
Cohorts run in intensive blocks. Message us on WhatsApp for current cohort pricing and upcoming start dates.
Frequently asked questions
Two weeks: ten sessions, five days a week, four hours per session.
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