Evaluation of Training in Clinical Pharmacy Practice for Junior Students at Kobe Pharmaceutical University (I)

Preparation and Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms

Abstract

At Kobe Pharmaceutical University, one of the pre-training programs for hospital pharmacy internship is on clinical pharmacy practice. It consists of three sections-pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical dispensing including TDM and drug information surveys. The pharmaceutical technology section was the first to be introduced.
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the content of the pre-training in pharmaceutical technology, which includes the measurement and evaluation of micromeritic properties (flow and packing properties) of pharmaceutical excipients, various tablet-related tests in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, preparation of model vitamin granules and pharmaceuticals in the hospital pharmacy, and TPN. At the end of the training, students evaluated it by means of a questionnaire. Almost of all of the junior students who took the training participated actively and showed great interest in the preparation of pharmaceuticals. Overall, the questionnaire results indicated that more than 90% of the students had understood the training in pharmaceutical technology very well and felt it to be a valuable part of pre-training for hospital pharmacy internship.