In Japan, there are no suitable training materials for community and hospital pharmacists to increase a common understanding for pharmaceutical care on several diseases. We therefore developed to following training materials consisting of 8 components, 1. Charts of case studies, 2. Items of pharmaceutical managements, 3. Items of pharmaceutical services, 4. Sheets for recording of medical history, 5. Sheets for drug information of patients, 6. Sheets for contents of pharmaceutical services, 7. Confirmation sheets for essential drugs and 8. Check sheets for essential drugs on 6 diseases, such as deep-vein thrombosis, myocardial infarction, hypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, bronchial asthma and gastric ulcer. In the present study, to evaluate the usefulness of this system, a questionnaire regarding the benefit of “1. Charts of case studies” on community and hospital pharmacists selected randomly was conducted and analyzed. Community pharmacists recognized the style of these charts to be highly advantageous, while hospital pharmacists were interested in explanations for medical treatments. Furthermore, almost all pharmacists answered the usefulness of case studies for understanding pharmacotherapy. These findings showed the usefulness of using the “1. Charts of case studies” for the initial training of clinical works as a pharmacist.
