Clinical pharmacy education (CPE) is an important element in the undergraduate programmes as profession had changed from product-oriented to patient-oriented services. This study was designed assess experience and attitude of Malaysian students on clinical education, compare score according different demographic characteristics experiences, identify preferred teaching learning methods for CPE. ...

DEAR EDITOR, World Health Organization defines a counterfeit medicine as the one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and/ or source. It incorporates both branded and generic products and even includes products with correct/ wrong/insufficient/no active ingredients, or fake packaging. However, the European Union has proposed falsified medicines as a more ap...

the pharmaceutical knowledge and the medical science are very old in iran. during sassanid era, people who studied medicine or pharmacy at gondi-shapour university, had permission to treat sick people. after interruption in the progress of medicine and pharmacy, during the islamic civilization, these sciences were spread and became under control of the government. this research has presented th...

BACKGROUND Complementary medicines (CMs) are popular amongst Australians and community pharmacy is a major supplier of these products. This study explores pharmacy customer use, attitudes and perceptions of complementary medicines, and their expectations of pharmacists as they relate to these products. METHODS Pharmacy customers randomly selected from sixty large and small, metropolitan and r...

background: pharmacy education has been changed in recent years. pharmacy students need more practical and clinical skills which come from direct interaction with patients and other health care providers. to achieve this, students need more effective courses and clerkships. in this paper we describe our method to design and evaluate clinical pharmacy clerkship for the first time in ahvaz jundis...

pharmacy, being a profession which its activities are directly related to the health and wellbeing of the people and soci­ety has been described an ethical profession from earliest time. in the recent decades there has been a shift in the phar­macist role from dispensing to relationship with patients and health care providers and interfere the therapeutic process. other branches of pharmacy suc...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand how Amazon’s threat may impact the Pharmacy Industry as a whole and whether traditional drugstore chains such consumer value stores (CVS) will need re-think their business strategy, especially in digital space, account for potential disruption. Design/methodology/approach This hypothetical case used teaching exercise guide learner through decis...

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic compelled the traditional higher educational institutions to make a quick transition virtual instruction model. Considering restrictions, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology at Ras Al Khaimah College Pharmaceutical Sciences, United Arab Emirates restructured their original onsite experiential training for final year Bachelor students as online exp...