Report of the 2011-2012 AACP Professional Affairs Committee: Addressing the Teaching Excellence of Volunteer Pharmacy Preceptors Betty Jean Harris, Chair, Michell Butler, Elizabeth Cardello, Robin Corelli, Wafa Dahdal, Mary Gurney, Kristopher Harrell, John Murphy, Douglas Pisano, Meghan Sullivan, Janet Teeters, Lynette Bradley-Baker Husson University School of Pharmacy, One College Circle, Bang...

Clinical research plays a fundamental role in establishing new treatments. Clinical research coordinators are considered essential in clinical research, and medical professionals such as pharmacists often take on this role. Pharmacy students can be considered future candidates for this task. We used questionnaires to survey the knowledge of and attitudes toward registration trials and clinical ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the integration of a clinic pharmacy with a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). SETTING Primary care clinic in Monroe, WA, from 1981 to January 2011. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION Pharmacists and physicians with a previous working relationship in a family practice residency program established colocated practices in 1981. In addition to traditional pharmacy services, collabor...

Retail pharmacies provide essential services to residents of rural areas and serve many communities as the sole provider of pharmacist services. Losing the only retail pharmacy within a rural community (census designated city), and within a 10 mile radius based on driving distance ("sole community pharmacy"), may affect access to prescription and over-the-counter drugs and, in some cases, leave...

BACKGROUND Because of concerns about patient safety and the quality of health care in America, in particular about drug therapy, pharmacists have unprecedented opportunities to increase their value and significance. When defining clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care, pharmacists long ago recognized the need to improve the safety and effectiveness of drug therapy. OBJECTIVE To describe ho...

Clinical pharmacists should be increasingly important members of the healthcare team in developing countries such as Pakistan. Survey of literature was conducted to identify the determinants of clinical pharmacy in Pakistan. Lack of trained human capital, shortage of resources, patient overburden, inefficient pharmacy education curriculum, and limited job opportunities are some of the determina...

This commentary from the 2010 Task Force on Acute Care Practice Model of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy was developed to compare and contrast the "unit-based" and "service-based" orientation of the clinical pharmacist within an acute care pharmacy practice model and to offer an informed opinion concerning which should be preferred. The clinical pharmacy practice model must facilitate...

UNLABELLED As colleges of pharmacy prepare a new generation of practitioners, it is important that during practice experiences students learn the impact of clinical interventions. For over ten years, pharmacy students have been a vital part of the multidisciplinary team at the military treatment facility. The overall impact of the student interventions on patient care has not been evaluated. To...

VLAD VINEREANU1, ILEANA PERIDE1,2*, CRISTIANA DAVID1,2, DANIELA RADULESCU1,2, FLAVIA LILIANA TURCU1,2, MARIANA JINGA3,4, DUMITRU FERECHIDE5, ANDREI NICULAE1,2 1 Sfantul Ioan Emergency Clinical Hospital, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, 13 Vitan Barzesti Road, 077160, Bucharest, Romania 2 Carol Davila University Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Clinical Department No. 3, 37Dionisie Lupu St...

1 Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery, County Emergency Hospital, Ploiesti, Romania 2 „Carol Davila” Universiy of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 3 Department of Dermatovenerology, Elias Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 4 Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Emergency County Hospital Constanta, Romania 5 Department of ...