As we enter more and more into a super-aging society, the requirement for home healthcare will increase. Pharmacists must work along with doctors and nurses in the field of home healthcare. Within the 6-year pharmacy curriculum, we must educate students as medicinal professionals who will join a medical team to serve the community. The Good Practice (GP) program, which has been supported by the...

Lorraine Shack *, Heather Bryant , Gina Lockwood , Larry F. Ellison d a Population and Public Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada Divisions of Oncology and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, 1 University Ave., Suite 300, Toronto, ON M5J 2P1, Canada Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

OBJECTIVE The opinion about pharmacy services was studied using an instrument which measured satisfaction with pharmacy services. The main focus of the instrument was to assess patients' opinion and expectation of the present pharmacy services. METHOD The instrument contained 20 items, which were grouped based on their similarity into eight dimensions, namely, General satisfaction, Interperso...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to explore the perceptions of stakeholders on a national pilot of a new service, the 'Choose Pharmacy' Common Ailments Service (CAS) in Wales. METHODS Methods used were semi-structured interviews with stakeholders involved in development and delivery of the CAS. Snowball sampling was employed and invites were extended to eight of 13 pharmacies offeri...

OBJECTIVES To compare patients' expectations and experiences at pharmacies offering traditional APPE learning opportunities with those offering enhanced APPEs that incorporate pharmaceutical care activities. METHODS A survey of anchored measures of patient satisfaction was conducted in 2 groups of APPE- affiliated community pharmacies: those participating in an enhanced APPE model versus thos...

The PHARMINE (Pharmacy Education in Europe) consortium surveyed pharmacy education and practice in 2012. Surveys were updated in 2017 for publication. The PHARMINE consortium was especially interested in specialization in pharmacy education and practice (for community, hospital, and industrial pharmacy), and in the impact of the Bologna agreement and the directive of the European Commission on ...

Report of the 2010-2011 Professional Affairs Committee: Effective Partnerships to Implement Pharmacists’ Services in Team-Based, Patient-Centered Healthcare Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, Alex J. Adams, Anne L. Burns, Carolyn Ha, Michelle L. Hilaire, Donald E. Letendre, Douglas J. Scheckelhoff, Terry L. Schwinghammer, Andrew Traynor, David P. Zgarrick, and Lynette R. Bradley-Baker University of M...

Within Canada's Aboriginal population, an ongoing health promotion strategy has been the facilitation of community participation in the development and application of health policy. The Calgary Health Region's Aboriginal Community Health Council has provided a setting for involving the local Aboriginal population in health policy and program development for over a decade. This paper represents ...