2022 Volume 6 Article ID: 2022-028
Recently, a need has been recognized for pharmacists to be able to offer optimal prescriptions and practice pharmacotherapy in collaboration with other medical professionals. This paper reports on a practical training initiative and its associated challenges conducted at Osaka Prefecture Saiseikai Noe Hospital (hereinafter, “the hospital”). This initiative is an example of clinical education in medium-sized hospitals. The hospital was able to (1) include pharmacists in information-sharing programs with specialists, such as in a conference on cardiac failure, and in team-based care, such as in AST, RCT, and NST, to deal with eight typical diseases. It was also possible to (2) train pharmacists to interact with other medical professionals, exchanging opinions with doctors and nurses and playing an active role in the clinical environment in participatory and experiential training programs for outpatient care, within contexts such as emergency and cardiac outpatients. It is a particular challenge that pharmacists, despite playing a leading role, have few practical opportunities to receive the above education. Thus, in the physical assessment training course conducted in collaboration with Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, (3) the hospital aims to support training pharmacists to be able to use the physical examination of patients for pharmaceutical management and to employ pharmacotherapy proactively.
