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...

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...

Objective. To evaluate the impact of an evidence-based course in complementary medicines on the attitudes, knowledge, and professional practice behavior of undergraduate pharmacy students. Design. A required 12-week evidence-based complementary medicine course was designed and introduced into the third-year undergraduate pharmacy curriculum. The course included a combination of traditional lect...

BACKGROUND Routine monitoring of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is crucial for measuring program success and accurate drug forecasting. However, compiling data from patient registers to measure retention in ART is labour-intensive. To address this challenge, we conducted a pilot study in Malawi to assess whether patient ART retention could be determined using pharmacy records as compa...

Competency-based Education (CBE) is an educational model that allows students to learn and demonstrate their abilities at their own pace. CBE is growing in popularity in undergraduate educational programs and its role in pharmacy education in the United States (US) is under review. In comparison, medical education is utilizing competency-based approaches (such as competencies and Entrustable Pr...

As part of an ongoing multi-year project investigating hospital-based clinical pharmacy services, the variation in clinical pharmacy services among hospitals with various teaching affiliations was studied. Survey documents, completed by the director of pharmacy, were completed for 1597 hospitals, representing 43 percent of the nation’s acute care general medical surgical hospitals. Hospitals we...

In order to meet the expectations to act as an expert in the health care profession, it is of utmost importance that pharmacy education creates knowledge and skills needed in today's working life. Thus, the planning of the curriculum should be based on relevant and up-to-date learning outcomes. In the University of Helsinki, a university wide curriculum reform called 'the Big Wheel' was launche...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES In Nigeria, a shift from the traditional pharmacists' role of dispensing and compounding of medications began in the 1980s with the introduction of drug information services and unit dose-dispensing systems in some hospitals. More than three decades after this, clinical pharmacy practice is still underdeveloped. This study was conducted to explore stakeholders' vi...

The profession of pharmacy recently passed a historic milestone that merits recognition, discussion, and celebration. I am referring to July 2010, which marked the passage of 10 years since all entry classes of pharmacy students were enrolled in doctor of pharmacy (PharmD)only programs. Driven by the profession’s aspirations for a larger role in health care, the Accreditation Council for Pharma...