Dispensing Techniques Seminar Held for Hospital and Community Pharmacy Pharmacists and its Evaluation

Abstract

At Tokyo University Hospital,the Dispensing Techniques Seminar has been held regularly since September 1992 with the objectives of standardizing dispensing techniques and exchanging information.The participants are Pharmacy Dept and community pharmacy pharmacists.The seminar has been held once a month,with each course consisting of 3 seminars,to discuss the themes of“Prescription monitoring”,“Weighing out medicines”and“Medication consultation”.From 1995 onwards we conducted a questionnaire survey of the participants to continuously evaluate the content studied and the feelings of participants towards the seminar.More than 80% of the participants were satisfied with the content of the meetings.However,there was an increase in the number of people who felt that other content should also be studied,indicating a diversification of the needs of participants.We therefore felt there was an urgent need to cultivate lecturers who could handle a wider variety of themes to make the seminar more participation-oriented so that it can better meet the needs of participants and those of the current social environment.