Pharmacists in Poland are responsible for the dispensing and quality control of pharmaceuticals. The education process in pharmacy is regulated and monitored at the national level. Pharmacy education at Jagiellonian University is organized in a traditional way based on input and content teaching. The aim of the study was to determinate whether the Jagiellonian University curriculum in the Pharm...

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...

The profession of pharmacy recently passed a historic milestone that merits recognition, discussion, and celebration. I am referring to July 2010, which marked the passage of 10 years since all entry classes of pharmacy students were enrolled in doctor of pharmacy (PharmD)only programs. Driven by the profession’s aspirations for a larger role in health care, the Accreditation Council for Pharma...

Geriatric Pharmacy Education: A Strategic Plan for the Future Peggy S. Odegard, PharmD, Robert M. Breslow, BS, Michael J. Koronkowski, PharmD, Bradley R. Williams, PharmD, and Gayle A. Hudgins, PharmD American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Geriatric Special Interest Group School of Pharmacy, University of Washington School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin Madison College of Pharmacy, ...

The concept of development is ubiquitous throughout higher education. Development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and clinical reasoning are noted as important outcomes in higher education, including health professions education. In this era of widening scrutiny, demonstration of this outcome within programmatic assessment is becoming increasingly important. Programmatic assessment of cr...

background: over 90% of pharmacy students’ work in pharmacies after graduation which needs both knowledge and skill, thus one of the most essential courses of their education is pharmacy clerkship. an important part of an educational program is the evaluation of the trainees. different studies show that conventional written exams are not successful in evaluating the skills of the students and c...

Harmonization of pharmacy education has to be made a global agenda that will encompass the developments that have taken place in basic, medical, pharmaceutical sciences in serving the needs and expectations of the society. The professional pharmacy curriculum is designed to produce pharmacists who have the abilities and skills to provide drug information, education, and pharmaceutical care to p...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the experience of the family health team in resignifying the way to develop educational groups. METHOD groups of discussion, with twenty-six biweekly group meetings conducted, with an average of fifteen professionals from the family health team, during the year 2009. The empirical material consisted of the transcription of the groups, on which thematic analysis was perfor...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this continuing education in the health professions, how can you bargain with the thing that...