BACKGROUND In Australia, the profession of pharmacy has undergone many changes to adapt to the needs of the community. In recent years, concerns have been raised with evidence emerging of workforce saturation in traditional pharmacy practice sectors. It is not known how current final year pharmacy students' perceive the different pharmacy career paths in this changing environment. Hence investi...

Pharmacy education in the United States is currently in a state of transition as the nation’s schools of pharmacy move from the five-year Bachelor of Science degree to the Doctor of Pharmacy degree. At this same time, applications to pharmacy schools have fallen for two consecutive years. Because of these trends, a potential concern for pharmacy educators is losing highly qualified students to ...

ph.G., Ph.D., Dean of Pharmacy in the Cleveland School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Pp. 1,175, with 246 Original Illustrations. Published by W. B. Saunders & Co., 1909. This monumental work, as the author stales in bis preface, is divided into seven parts. Part 1?Deals with pharmaceutical processes and a striking feature is the discussion of ...

MADALINA VIERIU1, GLADIOLA TANTARU1, MIHAI APOSTU1, ALINA DIANA PANAINTE1, LUMINITA AGOROAEI2*, LIVIA UNCU3, NELA BIBIRE1 1 ”Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, 16 University Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 2 “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology,16 Universitatii Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 3 ...

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...

BACKGROUND This study assessed pharmacy performance and satisfaction as reported by patients during ovulation induction therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients (n = 1269) receiving gonadotropin prescriptions for intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer in 2007-2008 were prospectively interviewed by nurses and/or completed a structured questionnaire to evaluate pharm...

Copyright © 2005, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc. All rights reserved. 1079-2082/05/0402-0856$06.00. There is a pressing need to prepare health-system pharmacists for executive-level positions, motivate them to step into these roles and educate health-system administrators about the value a pharmacist in such a position could bring to his or her organization. To do this, the...

BACKGROUND New accreditation standards implemented in 2007 have required schools of pharmacy to evaluate their existing curricula. An issue frequently encountered is the limited amount of content in the pharmacy curriculum specific to managed care and the role and function of pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs). OBJECTIVE To determine pharmacy student knowledge and opinions about man...

OBJECTIVE To review the published English literature regarding international hospital pharmacy practice. DATA SOURCES A computer search of all English-language articles in MEDLINE (1966-June 2004) and other Internet sources and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1971-June 2004). STUDY SELECTION AND DATA EXTRACTION All studies that discussed hospital pharmacy or clinical hospital pharma...