2022 Volume 6 Article ID: 2022-030
While Japan is a small country, however throughout the year it experiences many natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, heavy snowfall, volcanic eruptions, extreme heat, and cold weather. Especially, earthquakes occur almost every day somewhere in Japan. A characteristic of recent natural disasters is that once they occur, they become widespread and make life inconvenient. In addition to natural disasters, Japan has also experienced a man-made disaster, a chemical weapon attack with sarin gas. From the perspective of educating pharmacy students, it seems that educators have a lot more to learn about these disasters. In the current education curriculum model for pharmacy students, there are not enough SBOs on disaster medical care the strategy depends on each university. The authors think that there are various possible reasons why disaster medicine education in the faculty of pharmacy is not progressing to date. It is our belief that one major reason is that there are few faculty members who are familiar with disaster medical care. On the other hand, what can be taught/what can we teach “from now on” in order to discharge pharmacists who can play an active role in the event of a large-scale disaster and also contribute to maintaining the health of victims. Therefore, we planned a questionnaire survey on the learning needs of pharmacy students and demanded by the pharmacists.
