Importance of Pharmaceutical Care Training for Medical Graduate Students as Part of the Bedside Teaching(BST) Program at the Hospital Pharmacy

Introduction and Evaluation of BST Curriculum

Abstract

Since the 2000 academic year, we have conducted one week of pharmaceutical caretraining for the 5th and 6th year students of the faculty of medicine as part of the bedsideteaching (BST) program at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Tokyo Hospital.From the practical point of view, the textbook and curriculum of BST has been designedfor the medical students to understand the importance of the rational use of the drugs.In this study, handed out a questionnaire survey of the students' views on this BSTcurriculum. The medical students evaluated both the textbook and curriculum ; thepercentage of respondants answering “excellent” or “good” was over 80 percent. Theywere particularly interested in the dispensing section, and highly evaluated the programof “how to make out a prescription”. Furthermore, the students' impression of thehospital pharmacists was improved and they understood that the hospital pharmacistsplay an important role in the rational drug use and risk management of the medicalservice. The results showed that almost all medical students found this BST curriculumto be useful for the future when they would become doctors.