Importance of pharmaceutical training and clinical research at medical facilities

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To respond to advancements in medical techniques, and to address the separation of medical and dispensary practices, clinical professors are required to educate human resource staff to become highly-skilled pharmacists. For this purpose, it is extremely important for these professors to learn about cutting-edge practical skills and knowledge, as well as to advance their expertise. In addition, they need to conduct clinical research in cooperation with relevant facilities. As our university does not have its own hospital or pharmacy, it is important to provide training for clinical professors in clinical facilities. Such training mainly involves medical teams’ in-hospital rounds and participation in conferences (nutrition support team; NST), operation of the pharmacy department, and intervention targeting improvement in the department’s duties. We have conducted collaborative studies, provided research instructions, implemented studies aimed at improving the department’s work (pharmacists appointed on wards at all times to ensure medical safety) as well as studies regarding team medical care (nutritional evaluation during outpatient chemotherapy), and resolved issues regarding this work (drug solution mixability in a hand-held constant infusion pump, and a safe pump-filling methods). Thus, it has become possible to keep track of the current state of a pharmacists’ work within team medical care, to access information about novel drugs, to view clinical and prescription-claim data, to cooperate with other professionals (e.g., doctors and nurses), to promote pharmacists’ self-awareness of their roles in cooperative medical practice, and to effectively maintain the hospital’s clinical settings.

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Myotoku, M. (2017). Importance of pharmaceutical training and clinical research at medical facilities. Yakugaku Zasshi. Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. https://doi.org/10.1248/yakushi.16-00220-3

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