Hi Dzul
We have 9 universities offering partial of complete training for
entry level pharmacist courses, nearly all of whom have a background
in pharmaceutics. A few have changed emphasis towards pharmacy
practice, or drug policy. With the emphasis in the is moving away
manufacturing towards more clinical competencies, it is interesting
to speculate on the role played by the key discipline of the head in
resisting or facilitating this change.
It is also interesting to consider the role that a non-pharmacist
might play in facilitating or resisting this change. Would it be
fair to say that if the head was from the pure sciences, that there
would be a greater propensity to hang onto traditional competencies?
(PS I am a social scientist so I am more interested in putting the
care into pharmaceutical care than the pharmaceuticals!)
Cheers
Billy
Billy Futter
Associate Professor
Faculty of Pharmacy
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
email B.Futter@ru.ac.za
phone 046 603 8494
fax 046 636 1205
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