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Cristina Vilaplana Prieto – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2021
As the Sars-CoV2 pandemic continues to grow, researchers around the world are urgently seeking new treatments to prevent infection, cure those infected, or lessen the severity of the disease. Although there are several recently approved vaccines, clinical trials are underway to "re-use" drugs normally indicated for other diseases. This…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Pharmacy, Drug Therapy
Neelakantan, Shailaja – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports that India's medical profession is in a crisis. For every 10,000 people in India there are only six doctors, compared with nearly 55 in the United States and nearly 21 in Canada. The problem is likely to get worse before it gets better. Professors are leaving medical schools for better-paying jobs in private hospitals and in…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Economic Progress, Medical Schools, Hospitals
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Blake, Martin I. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1983
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…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Drug Legislation, Drug Use, Foreign Countries
Suntrup, Noreen L., Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Pharmacy Education, which address the entire pharmacy curriculum, are presented. Contents are as follows: "Educating for the Pharmaceutical Industry," J.N. Banerjee; "Overview on Pharmaceuticals for Developing Countries," Leighton E. Cluff; "Pharmacy and the Third…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Drug Legislation, Drug Therapy, Foreign Countries