LAURA SBARCEA1*, LUCRETIA UDRESCU2, LIANA DRAGAN1, CRISTINA TRANDAFIRESCU1, MARIUS BOJITA3 1 Victor Babeo” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2 Eftimie Murgu Square, 300041, Timiooara, Romania 2 Victor Babeo” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Drug Analysis , 2 Eftimie Murgu Square, 300041, Timio...

The focus of pharmacy practice and education has changed over the past decade. In the past, pharmacy practice and education were focused primarily on drugs and their distribution. The suggestion of pharmacy practice centered on the patient was first articulated by Hepler and Strand in 1990 as pharmaceutical care.1 The concept of pharmaceutical care quickly became adopted by the profession. By t...

BACKGROUND Recent attention has focused on access of communities to pharmacy services in rural areas. To increase access to pharmacy services in rural Western Australia some doctors have been granted a licence to dispense medication on the rationale that a pharmacy would not be economically viable in that community. However, there have been no studies conducted on whether a doctor dispensing se...

BACKGROUND Pharmacy services in the emergency department (ED) have been shown to decrease medication adverse events and improve patient outcomes. Anecdotally, there has been expansion of emergency medicine (EM) educational opportunities for pharmacy students and postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) pharmacy residents, however the extent of this expansion is currently unknown. OBJECTIVE The objective of...

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...

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