Abstract
A questionnaire about the education in Drug Informatics (DI) for 6-year programs in pharmacy schools was conducted as a start of discussion on an ideal education system. The percentage of pharmacy schools which gave lectures on DI was 92% in the 1998 survey and nearly 100% (one exception) in the 2006 survey. There was no difference between the survey in 1998 and in 2006. However, the percentage of pharmacy schools which gave the practice and training stayed at 80%. The reason for this result was that the 6-year-education program has just now been introduced, so the details of program have not yet been fixed in many schools. There were not enough books and databases as resources on Drug Information to attain the SBOs. One more issue to be resolved was that librarians did not participate in the practice and training of DI in pharmacy schools.
