[Development of advanced pharmacy practice experience in national universities].

The six-year pharmacy program started in April 2006 in Japan. In the new program, students in the fifth year of the pharmacy course undergo a long-term practice experience (pharmacy clerkship) in community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy settings as compulsory 20 course credits. The new pharmacy practice experience started in May 2010. A start of the new system was a chance as for beginning movement, thus we conducted the questionnaire survey for the following steps. The finding obtained from our questionnaires indicated that many universities had already planned to execute new approaches, such as an advanced practice at outpatient units, an with medical students, and so on.