The Working Together (WT) project involved the design and delivery of an online learning resource for healthcare teams in long-term care (LTC) so that knowledge regarding interprofessional collaborative patient-centred practice (ICPCP) could be readily accessed and then transferred to the workplace. The purpose of this paper is to better…

Visits to colleges of pharmacy and to community and hospital pharmacies revealed that: pharmacy graduates seek employment in the pharmaceutical industry; pharmacy dispensers are PharmD graduates; physicians are the major drug dispensers to patients; little distinction is made between prescription and over-the-counter drugs; and drug laws are…

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) manages the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Licensure Examination (NABPLEX). A new Scope of Pharmacy Practice study was completed in 1994, and representatives of NABP and the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities of Canada met in 1995 to discuss the possibility of…

Immigrants with professional qualifications face unique challenges in adapting personally and professionally to new environments. This "double culture shock" experience may result in disengagement from the professional community due to perceived barriers to integration, with subsequent negative impact on employment prospects and…

Social pharmacy as practiced and taught in Sweden is addressed. Focus is on the pharmaceutical educational system and Sweden's pharmacy college at the University of Uppsala. Topics include student selection, curriculum, social pharmacy courses, specialized studies and research. Comparisons are made with the Finnish system and its University of…

The curriculum of the Riyadh College of Pharmacy was compared with the pharmacy curricula of selected universities in the U. S., England, Egypt, and Ghana. A new curriculum based on the findings is described. (LBH)

The need for research administrators to understand and appreciate the pharmaceutical industry's research and development environment is discussed, using examples from Canada. The research administrator's role in the technology transfer process and implications for faculty are examined. Ways to build closer school-industry ties are discussed. (MSE)

This report focuses on a study that examined skills, recruitment, and training issues covering the whole pharmaceutical industry. It presents mailed survey material complemented and enhanced by a series of telephone interviews and focus groups. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 deals with the structure of the sector and reports background…

The licensing body in British Columbia, the College of Pharmacists, has initiated a program of competency assessment to help define educational needs and to provide a basis for licensure renewal. The development and implementation of the first assessment conducted during 1977-78 is described. (Author/MLW)

Numerous explanations have been offered to explain the ubiquity and enduring nature of academic dishonesty in post-secondary education and professional programs, including dissatisfaction with curricula, disengagement from academic institutions, and poor admissions criteria for students. A pilot study in Canadian pharmacy education was undertaken…

A statistical analysis reveals that: (1) inclusion of continuous assessment (CA) scores in the final assessment does not alter the ranking order of student performance; (2) it sometimes benefits the student, especially those of below-average ability; and (3) inclusion of CA in the final assessment of students in honors courses has no significant…

The status of pharmaceutical education in Canada is reviewed with focus on admissions, manpower, and outlook for the future. (LBH)

Describes a hypertext learning system in the United Kingdom that is designed to assist community pharmacists in recommending over-the-counter remedies to patients. The combination of hypertext's linking features with the knowledge-based components of expert systems is discussed, and the application of this model to other domains is explored. (five…

An ethics manual to support undergraduate lectures or practitioners in a healthcare environment has been developed. The manual was developed from course materials designed to ensure an integrated approach throughout a four year pharmacy program as teaching professionalism, as well as professional ethics, has become increasingly important and a…

Aiming at identifying the relationship between the elderly patient facing drug prescription and health professionals, an exploratory and descriptive study of a qualitative cut was carried out using semi-structured interviews. To this end, the Collective Subject Discourse analysis technique was employed. Thirty elderly patients living in the urban…