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Reforms in pharmacy education and opportunity to practise clinical pharmacy
Author(s) -
Birenbaum Arnold,
Bologh Roslyn,
Lesieur Henry
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10957861
Subject(s) - pharmacy , pharmacy practice , clinical pharmacy , perception , medicine , family medicine , nursing , health care , pharmaconomist , medical education , psychology , political science , neuroscience , law
The impact on 357 newly licensed pharmacists, graduates of two colleges, of efforts to turn pharmacy into a clinical profession, was examined by way of a self‐administered questionnaire. Perceptions and expectations about work, differences in consulting practices, relationships between practice and attitudes, and the presence or absence of an identifiable general value orientation (which could account for specific perceptions and attitudes), were examined. Results indicated that hospital practice was more likely to be associated with clinical pharmacy and clinical pharmacy practice was more likely to meet the expectations of recently graduated pharmacists. In addition, 52 per cent of the community‐based pharmacists were found to engage in patient counseling, as compared with 39 per cent of hospital‐based pharmacists. Newly licensed pharmacists are deepening the existing divisions in the profession, while moving toward a revision of their place in the health care delivery system.