The objective of the PHAR-QA (Quality assurance in European pharmacy education and training) project was to investigate how competence-based learning could be applied to a healthcare, sectoral profession such as pharmacy. This is the first study on evaluation of competences from the pharmacists' perspective using an improved Delphi method with a large number of respondents from all over Europe....

During the past 40 years, the roles of the pharmacy technician have expanded to services beyond traditional duties within the pharmacy department, correlating with the ever-changing needs of the health care system. In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, the roles of pharmacy technicians go beyond those of their Canadian counterparts to include advising patients about medications, revie...

BACKGROUND A non-dispensing pharmacist conducts clinical pharmacy services aimed at optimizing patients individual pharmacotherapy. Embedding a non-dispensing pharmacist in primary care practice enables collaboration, probably enhancing patient care. The degree of integration of non-dispensing pharmacists into multidisciplinary health care teams varies strongly between settings. The degree of i...

BACKGROUND In many developing countries, pharmacists are facing many challenges while they try to enhance the quality of services provided to patients approaching community pharmacies. OBJECTIVE To explore perception of community pharmacists in Dubai regarding the obstacles to enhanced pharmacy services using a part of the results from a nation-wide quantitative survey. METHODS A questionna...

1Ghenadie Pascarenco, 1Marius F. Coros, 2Ofelia D. Pascarenco, 1Sorin Sorlea, 3Adrian M. Maghiar 1 IIIrd Surgical Departament, County Clinical Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Târgu Mureş, Romania; 2 Department of Gastroenterology, County Clinical Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Târgu Mureş, Romania; 3 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Surgical Departament, Pelic...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of student pharmacists delivering medication therapy management (MTM) services during an elective advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE). METHODS Student pharmacists provided MTM services at community pharmacy APPE sites, documented their recommendations, and then made follow-up telephone calls to patients to determine the impact of the MTM provided. St...

Rita R. Shane, PhaRm.D., FaShP, FCShP, is Director, Pharmacy Services, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, and Assistant Dean, Clinical Pharmacy Services, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco. Address correspondence to Dr. Shane at the Department of Pharmacy Services, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Room A-845, Los Angeles, CA 90048 (rita.sh...

1“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint John Hospital Bucharest, Romania 2“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Cardiology, Institute of Emergency for Cardiovascular Diseases “ Prof. C.C. Iliescu”, Bucharest 3“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pathophysiology Department II, Clinical Department 2, Bu...

conclusions the duties of social workers have been defined in the three domains of psychosocial health, psychosocial treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation. results the findings of the research indicate that social work headquarters have had a weak performance in introducing social work as a specialized profession. their performance in establishing relationship with scientific centers has be...