الملخص
Pharmacy practice has undergone dramatic changes in the
last 30 years. The pharmacist’s responsibilities have moved from
supplying medication in bulk towards stocks and extemporaneously
compounding preparation to an important integrated
member of the patient care team. Today, hospital pharmacists are
vital players on the health care team acting as therapeutic experts,
during information specialists, nutritional service members, and
pharmacokinetic consultants.
Guidelines to pharmacy college faculty in assessing and
revising their curriculums and to design a continuing pharmaceutical
education program was established by the American
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). The two major
outcomes of these two guidelines are professional practice-based
outcomes and general ability-based outcomes.
The University of Tanta, College of Pharmacy had developed
new curriculum for its graduate pharmacy students to face the
challenge of modern pharmacy practice. The ACCP guidelines
were taken into account for developing this new curriculum and
in designing course contents for the pharmacist to accept
responsibility for the overall effects of the therapeutic process.
However, some obstacles have raised on the surface when it
comes to actually applying the principle of pharmaceutical care.
These problems include: I) inadequate practicing experience; II)
misunderstanding of the role of pharmaceutical services by the
medical staff; III) the inherited lack of coordination between
pharmacists and the rest of health team; IV) absence of in-service
programs to the nursing staff by practicing ward pharmacists; V)
lack of applied visible or sensible valuable pharmaceutical
services; VI) inadequate life-long learning 86 practice; VII)
minimal effort is exerted in the promotion of public awareness
regarding public health and disease.
However, local measures are currently undertaken to correct
these problems along with the implementation of the Pharm. D. program.