OBJECTIVE To analyze the link between the rank at the national pharmacy residency examination and the choice of pharmacy specialty for hospital residency-admitted French pharmacy students. METHODS Examination ranks as well as the pharmacy residency specialty to which residency candidates are finally admitted were collected for all students (n=1948) having successfully passed the national Fren...

Vancomycin Solution for the Treatment of Severe Clostridium Defficile Infection Rania Saleh, MD; Sharon Sam, PharmD; Lisa Russell, MD; Paiboon Jungsuwadee, PhD; Diane Cluxton, PharmD Candidate; Alex Mersch, PharmD Candidate; Infectious Disease, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL; Pharmacy, Roosevelt University College of Pharmacy, Schaumburg, IL; Pharmacy, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL; Moun...

PURPOSE The current state of hospital pharmacy practice around the globe and key issues facing international hospital pharmacy practice were studied. METHODS This survey assessed multiple aspects of hospital pharmacy practice within each of the Member States recognized by the United Nations. An official respondent from each nation was identified by a structured nomination process. The survey ...

Pharmaciens sans frontières (also known as Pharmacists Without Borders—Canada or PSF-Canada) has an ongoing collaboration with St Mary’s Lacor Hospital (Lacor Hospital) in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Founded by a group of Comboni missionaries in 1959 and developed by 2 physicians, Dr Lucille Teasdale and Dr Piero Corti, Lacor Hospital has grown from a small 30-bed institution to its c...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...