2022 Volume 6 Article ID: 2022-038
The faculty of pharmacy should educate pharmacists who have played an important role in medical support in recent mass disasters. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake, there are great expectations for pharmacists’ disaster response as well as the demand for medicines at disaster sites. In the recent transformation of the pharmacy education system, SBOs that educate the role of pharmacists in the event of a disaster have been included in the pharmaceutical education model core curriculum. At present, many universities are in charge of disaster education at the faculty of pharmacy by pharmacists who have experience in dealing with disasters. In the future, it will be essential to faculty develop disaster medicine as a systematic discipline in pharmaceutical education. Many pharmacists who have participated in disaster medical support so far have solved many problems in response to disasters, and it will be important to practice thinking about problem-solving methods as a lesson of disaster pharmaceutics.
