抄録
In Japan,many new pharmacy graduates currently look for positions in large chain community pharmacies.We conducteda cross-sectional study to obtain information that could be used in career design for pharmacy students by investigatingthe attitude of pharmacists working in such pharmacies toward their work,especially with regard to job satisfaction,andtheir future work plans,through a self-administered survey.We had the headquarters of 4 pharmacy chains distribute thesurvey to 2,071 pharmacists working in their pharmacies.The proportion of usable data was 76.5%.More than 60% of the surveyed pharmacists were working as communitypharmacists in order to put their license to good use or because they wished to work in the health care field.Though 90%of the pharmacists were satisfied with their jobs,only 7.6% of them could see themselves remaining in their current jobsuntil retirement.Therefore,job satisfaction among pharmacists was considerably higher than it was for college graduates,expert workers and technicians in general.It was felt that pharmacists' future work plans was affected by age,job satisfaction,years employed and gender.The results of our survey suggest that pharmacists working in large chain community pharmacies are dedicated professionalswho are highly motivated,have a tendency to change jobs,and mostly female.It seems that generally speaking,pharmacists are more interested in their field of expertise than their workplace as compared with workers in other professions.
