PURPOSE Type 2 diabetes is a major condition impacting morbidity, mortality, and health care costs in Canada. Pharmacists are very accessible and are in an ideal position to promote public health education. The primary goal of this study was to incorporate public health promotion and education into a community pharmacy experiential education rotation for fourth year pharmacy students to screen ...

the research office for the history of persian medicine will pay grant to the top researchers in the field of medical history. this award is named after abumaher shirazi, the father of shiraz medical doctrine in 10th century ad. this award will be paid annually. the ceremony of the first series of this award (2011-2012) will be held on 28 feb, 2013. following the announcement, winners will be s...

Background: Longevity of basic medical sciences is a major concern of medical educators and physicians. It has been shown that different learning styles can affect the half-life of the material. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of partially tests during renal physiology course on "the student’s retention of renal physiology knowledge" and "knowledge loss" in pharmacy and medical students...

the open access (oa) to scholarly articles published in journals, magazines and other literature sources is extremely useful to pharmacy students, teachers, research scholars, scientists and pharmacists to update their knowledge with recent changes in their fields of specialization. open access (oa) to scholarly articles is provided either directly from journal homepages by the publishers or fr...

Clinical Pharmacy Services (CPS) play important roles in the clinical setting. This study aims to evaluate CPS based on Doctors’ perception at Universitas Sumatera Utara Hospital, Medan, Indonesia. It was a mixed methods descriptive that used Importance–Performance Analysis (IPA). The quantitative and qualitative data were accessed simultaneously semi-structured interview using questionnaires a...

Pharmacy which is an art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and Materia Medica gives the names, sources physical characters and chemical properties of herbs or substances used in medicine and their doses have been interwoven connected with medicine from the time immorial. This can be traced back to the findings of ancient Egyptian and Unani Physician like Hippocrates (460-377 B.C) Di...