PURPOSE In Pakistan, courses in pharmacy practice, which are an essential component of the PharmD curriculum, were launched with the aim of strengthening pharmacy practice overall and enabling pharmacy students to cope with the challenges involved in meeting real-world healthcare needs. Since very little research has assessed the efficacy of such courses, we aimed to evaluate students' percepti...

DANIELA LUCIA MUNTEAN1, GABRIEL HANCU2*, HAJNAL KELEMEN2, AURA RUSU2, ADRIANA CIURBA3 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Tîrgu Mures, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Medicine Analysis, Gh. Marinescu 38, 540139, Tîrgu Mures, Romania 2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Tîrgu Mures, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Gh. Marinesc...

Background: The PHAR-QA, "Quality Assurance in European Pharmacy Education and Training", project has produced the European Pharmacy Competence Framework (EPCF). The aim of this study was to evaluate the existing pharmacy programme at the University of Tartu, using the EPCF. Methods: A qualitative assessment of the pharmacy programme by a convenience sample (n = 14) representing different pharm...

1Department of Pharmacognosy, Sri K.V.College of Pharmacy, Chickballapur, Karnataka, India; 2Department of Pharmacognosy, PES College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, Karnataka India; 3Department of Pharmacognosy, Karavali College of Pharmacy, Mangalore, Karnataka India; 4Department of Pharmacology, Sri K.V.College of Pharmacy, Chickballapur, Karnataka-562101, India; 5Department of Pharmaceutical Chemis...

College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065; College of Pharmacy, Northeastern Ohio Universities, 4209 State Road 44, PO Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272-0095; College of Pharmacy, The University of Georgia, Pharmacy Building, Green Street, Athens, GA 30602-2351; University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy, 1800 Bienville Drive, Monroe, LA 7...

Issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 include practice model growth and the role of pharmacy students, clinical privileging of health-system pharmacists and provider status, medication error prevention, and specialty pharmacy services. The goal of this article is to provide practical approaches to 4 issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 to help them focus their department's goals. This articl...

national conference on evidence-based traditional medicine and pharmacy

OBJECTIVES To describe the five Phase I Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) demonstration projects and discuss lessons learned across the projects. DESIGN Descriptive nonexperimental study. SETTING United States from July 2008 to November 2009. PARTICIPANTS Community pharmacies from five states. INTERVENTION Pharmacies viewed their performance scores on a reporting website and provided feed...

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...

introduction: satisfaction of the students as educational institutions’ customers plays a major role in the performance and activities of the university. the aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of satisfaction of pharmacy students and their educational status in kermanshah university of medical sciences in the year 2014. methods: 48 pharmacy students at 9th to 11th semesters participat...