A study on how industrial pharmacists rank competences for pharmacy practice : a case for industrial pharmacy specialization

Atkinson, Jeffrey (author), De Paepe, Kristien (author), Sánchez Pozo, Antonio (author), Rekkas, Dimitrios (author), Volmer, Daisy (author), Hirvonen, Jouni (author), Božič, Borut (author), Skowron, Agnieska (author), Mircioiu, Constantin (author), Marcincal, Annie (author), Koster, Andries (author), Wilson, Keith A. (author), van Schravendijk, Chris (author)

This paper looks at the way in which industrial pharmacists rank the fundamental competences for pharmacy practice. European industrial pharmacists (n = 135) ranked 68 competences for practice, arranged into 13 clusters of two types (personal and patient care). Results show that, compared to community pharmacists (n = 258), industrial pharmacists rank competences centering on research, development and production of drugs higher, and those centering on patient care lower. Competences centering on values, communication skills, etc. were ranked similarly by the two groups of pharmacists. These results are discussed in the light of the existence or not of an "industrial pharmacy" specialization.

• Language: English
• Keywords: education, specialization, practice, hospital pharmacists
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FFA - Faculty of Pharmacy
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2016
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 4, iss. 1, art. 13
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-130382
• UDC: 37:615
• ISSN on article: 2226-4787
• DOI: 10.3390/pharmacy4010013
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4097393
• Publication date in RUL: 14.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Pharmacy - A Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice
• Shortened title: Pharmacy
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2226-4787
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3457137

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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• Licensing start date: 01.03.2016

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Lifelong Learning program
• Project number: 527194-LLP-1-2012-1-BE-ERASMUS-EMCR