OBJECTIVE To describe the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Care Leadership Residency Program (PCLRP), a residency experience that prepares graduates to take responsibility for leading practice change in pharmacy. SETTING University-based residency program focused on delivery of pharmaceutical care in ambulatory care settings. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION AND INNOVATION: Currently, ambulatory care ...

For Nigerians in need of them, obtaining viable, unadulterated pharmaceutical products has become much more difficult since the IMF/World Bank policies of structural adjustment destroyed the indigenous Nigerian pharmaceutical industry in the late 1980s. Structural adjustment policies called for a high tax on imported raw materials and the devaluation of the naira; between them these policies wi...

The pharmacy profession in Canada finds itself in the midst of transformational change. The regulation and expanded scope of practice of pharmacy technicians that is under way across the country, combined with the advent of new drug distribution technologies in both the hospital and community practice settings, have created the opportunity for pharmacists to largely relinquish their traditional...

although iran has a deep history about 10000 years, its role in development of science in general and medicine in particular is yet to be known. there are several factors responsible for this, namely the destruction of a good number of ancient persian manuscripts and books. furthermore, lack of interest found among contemporary researchers seems to add to this anonymity. one way to compensate f...

indole is a nitrogen-containing heterocycle. it is a very important motif in agriculture and pharmacy. many compounds containing indole moiety has been isolated form nature. it is also an important part in natural alkaloids. tryptophan is an amino acid which posses indole. 3-sustituted indoles are the main group of its derivatives. because the wide-spread application of 3-substituted indolic co...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction rate of hospital managerial/clinical teams (hmcts) including principles (chief executives), managers, supervisor pharmacists and head nurses from services presented by private sectors directing 10 pharmacy departments in hospitals affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences.this study is an observational and descriptive stu...

Seventy-seven pharmacy colleges in the United States were surveyed to assess the degree to which instruction in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) was included in the pharmacy curriculum. Fifty schools responded to the survey out of 77 solicited (65 percent). Of these, 36 schools (72 percent) offer coursework in either herbal medicine or other areas of CAM. Thirty schools (60 percent)...

OBJECTIVES To create a doctor of pharmacy curricular experience that will decrease students' social barriers to interaction with and treatment of mentally-ill patients. DESIGN We created a survey instrument to measure 4 aspects of students' conceptions of schizophrenia and clinical depression: (1) understanding of the medical nature of each disease, (2) understanding of patient behavior, (3) ...