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...

IJPT | Sep-2010 | Vol. 2 | Issue No.3 | 665-673 Page 665 ISSN: 0975-766X Available Online through Research Article www.ijptonline.com IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF ETHANOL EXTRACT OF TRIUMFETTA RHOMBOIDEA P. Sivakumar, R. Sambath Kumar*, T. Sivakumar, P. Perumal, B. Jayakar. 1. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Natural Product Research Laboratory, J. K. K. Nataraja College of Pharmacy,...

Pharmacy education has undergone a radical change as it evolves towards becoming a more patient oriented profession. With a greater emphasis on problem based teaching and competency, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), supported by its reliability and validity became the gold standard for the evaluation of clinical skills of undergraduate students of medicine and pharmacy worl...

Yan-Xi Zhou, Su-Juan Wang, Yuan Li, Wei Xia, Xiong-Yu Meng, Cheng Peng, Hong Zhang Central Laboratory, Shanghai Seventh People's Hospital, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Standardization of Chinese Herbal Medicines of Ministry of Education, Pharmacy College, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, School of Pharmacy, Second Mil...

OBJECTIVE To create a required seminar series that instructed students in both clinical and non-clinical subjects that were often difficult to incorporate into the traditional pharmacy curriculum. DESIGN A required course was developed to introduce learners to basic professional skills, contemporary information, topics, and issues surrounding and influencing pharmacy practice Students were al...

Jin-Shuai Lan1#, Tong Zhang2#, Yun Liu1, Yong Zhang1, Jian-wei Hou1, Sai-Sai Xie3, Jing Yang1, Yue Ding1*, Zhen-zhen Cai4* 1 Experiment Center of Teaching & Learning, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; 2 School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; 3 National Pharmaceutical Engineering Center for Solid...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate pharmacy student perceptions of team-based learning (TBL) vs traditional lecture-based learning formats. METHODS First professional year pharmacy students (N=111) at two universities used TBL in different courses during different semesters (fall vs spring). Students completed a 22-item team perceptions instrument before and after the fall semester. A 14-item teaching sty...

The study purpose was to improve pharmacy instruction by identifying dimensions of teaching unique to pharmacy education and developing reliable and valid rating scales for student evaluation of instruction. Error-producing problems in the use of student ratings of instruction, existing rating methods and dimensions of effective teaching are reported. Rationale is provided for development of Be...

The changing societal purpose of pharmacy is discussed. Historically, the societal purpose of pharmacy has been to make drugs and medicines available. While this core function of pharmacy remains unchanged, the profession's purpose has evolved with new medical and pharmaceutical knowledge and technological advancements. The traditional role of dispensing medications has been expanded to include...