A s current and former directors of pharmacy with a combined total of over 140 years of experience in key pharmacy administrative roles, we have over the years shared many hours of informal discussions about the pharmacy profession. We have networked and traded stories about our hospital pharmacy departments, celebrating large and small initiatives that succeeded and learning from those that fa...

1 Gazi University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, 06330 Ankara, TURKEY, 2 Gazi University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology, 06330 Ankara, TURKEY, 3 Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, 06100 Ankara, TURKEY, 4 Anadolu University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, 26470 Eskişehir, TURKEY, 5 Yeditepe Univers...

The aim of this study was to provide a clinical pharmacy education program at Masih Daneshvari hospital, a University affiliated hospital, located in Tehran, Iran. For this purpose, the most common pharmacist involved interventions and aspects of potential fields for pharmacy students and residents education was firstly identified. Clinical pharmacy interventions and drug information forms wer...

The present corpus-based lexical study reports the development of a Pharmacy Academic Word List (PAWL); a list of the most frequent words from a corpus of 3,458,445 tokens made up of 800 most recent pharmacy texts including research articles, review articles, and short communications in four sub-disciplines of pharmacy. WordSmith (Scott, 2017) and AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2014) were used to sc...

Although community pharmacies have been the mainstay for drug distribution in the USA, plan members are encouraged to use mail-order pharmacies as a cost-containment strategy. Both channels differ with respect to reimbursement rates, utilization, and costs. We evaluated the differences in reimbursement rates and in ingredient costs between the two dispensing channels. We used pharmacy claims fr...

background: nowadays pharmaceutical care departments located in hospitals are amongst the important pillars of the healthcare system. the aim of this study was to evaluate designing features and equipments of hospital drugstores affiliated with isfahan university of medical sciences. methods: in this cross-sectional study a self-defined and validated questionnaire was used which included all th...

virtual learning is a type of electronic learning system based on the web. it models traditional in- person learning by providing virtual access to classes, tests, homework, feedbacks and etc. students and teachers can interact through chat rooms or other virtual environments. web 2.0 services are usually used for this method. internet audio-visual tools, multimedia systems, a disco cd-roms, vi...

UNLABELLED The role of pharmacy has changed dramatically during the last decades, which has led to new demands on pharmacy personnel. OBJECTIVE This study aims at exploring the attitudes of Swedish pharmacy personnel on their role as public health promoters and to look at the opportunities and obstacles they identify in the efforts to widen the pharmacy remit to include a wider health approac...

BACKGROUND The concept of customer engagement and devotion has been applied in various service businesses to keep the customers with business However, a limited number of studies were performed to examine the context of customer engagement and devotion in pharmacy business which focus on the impact of customer perceptions about pharmacists, perceived quality of pharmacy structure, medication pr...

The Bologna declaration and the European Union (EU) directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications influence the mobility of pharmacy students and pharmacy professionals, respectively. In addition the Bologna declaration aims at tuning higher education degrees including pharmacy throughout the EU in order to prepare for a harmonised European Higher Education Area. The di...