2022 Volume 6 Article ID: 2022-034
With growing social needs and interest in disaster medicine in recent years, it is desired to enhance the field of disaster medicine in pharmacy education. Therefore, we are trying to build a new course of pharmaceutical disaster medicine that will be learned over multiple grades in Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. In our university, we have taken the initiative in active learning such as group work and role-playing from the first grade. We have specifically been practicing primary triage and mission games using transceivers in workshops that train disaster medical professionals. These education contents focus on exercises related to emergency lifesaving and disaster medicine. Furthermore, in 2021, we planned new practical exercise for infectious diseases such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), on the theme of “The role of pharmacists in the pandemic of emerging infectious diseases.” Since our university does not have an affiliated hospital, we combine compulsory courses with some elective classes to meet the learning needs of disaster medicine. In the future, we will combine a course of disaster medical training conducted by academic societies and promote further education of pharmaceutical disaster medicine with the aim to develop pharmacists who can play an active role in disasters.
