Development Of Clinical Pharmacy Education At Meijo University

Kamei, Hiroyuki, and Manako, Han Ya, and Yoshida, Tsutomu, and Nagamatsu, Tadashi, and Shinohara, Rikio, and Yoshizumi, Hideo , and Nishida, Mikio, and Hirano, Masami, and Matsuba, Kazuhisa, (2005) Development Of Clinical Pharmacy Education At Meijo University. Malaysian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 3 (2). pp. 82-83. ISSN 16575-7319

Abstract

Meijo University has been offering a one-year graduate course of clinical pharmacy practice education for the past twenty eight years. In April 2003, we reconstructed this course leading to a 2- year Master's degree. The educational philosophy of this Master's course emphasizes the pharmacist's responsibility to pharmacotherapy at clinical sites. Meijo University does not have its own medical facility, so we established a joint Master's course program with the medical school for the clinical training of pharmacy students. The educational features of the Master's course are as follows: (1) problem-based learning (PBL) tutorial education to develop skills for integrating patient information, finding problems and solving them, (2) clinical communication skill, including patient's interview to gather patient's illness-related information, and (3) the clinical clerkship that is carried out in the affiliated university hospital for fifteen months. Students train first the dispensing pharmacy, and then practice nursing. After that, they rotate to several clinical departments for on- the-job pharmacotherapy monitoring. They are trained with medical students and medical residents in the wards under the guidance of physicians who are responsible for the clinical clerkship. We had the first graduates of the Master's course program in March 2005. It was shown that behavioral objectives for students in the clinical training were achieved, based on the findings from a survey to medical preceptors from each department. This survey has suggested that physicians evaluate highly student's growth as a clinical pharmacist. Thus, the target of our education system is to expand the pharmacist's responsibility from dispensing-centered pharmacy to develop more clinical pharmacy responsibilities in the health care system. We propose a typical mode] of clinical pharmacy education for pharmaceutical care. This new educa-tional program can be used to improve pharmacy education in Japan.

Development Of Clinical Pharmacy Education At Meijo University

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