University Pharmacy: from the foundation to the Pandemic times of Covid-19

The University Pharmacy Program (FU), from the Federal of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), was created based on need to offer a curricular internship students Undergraduate Course at Faculty Pharmacy. Currently, it is responsible for care about 200 patients/day, offering vacancies internships in course, has become reference manipulation many drugs neglected by pharmaceutical industry and provides access medicines low-income users playing an important social function. Research one pillars FU-UFRJ several master doctoral use FU research laboratory development dissertations theses. As 2002, Pharmaceutical Care extension projects started guarantee rational safe pharmacotherapy medicine users. From its beginning 1982 until current quarantine due COVID-19 pandemic, been adapting new reality continued provide patient services, maintaining teaching, research, activities. plays relevant role guaranteeing population special medicines, education services health promotion.