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EXPANDING THE CLINICAL COMPONENT OF PHARMACY EDUCATION IN SAUDI ARABIA
Author(s) -
AlSowaygh I. A.,
Morad A. M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.1980.tb00963.x
Subject(s) - pharmacy , clinical pharmacy , curriculum , pharmacy practice , multistate pharmacy jurisprudence examination , pharmaconomist , medical education , medicine , component (thermodynamics) , family medicine , psychology , pedagogy , physics , thermodynamics
The clinical pharmacy component of Riyad College of Pharmacy curriculum was expanded from its present 4‐credit h clinical pharmacy course to 18‐credit h of clinical instructions in the pharmacy‐core programme. In the final year of a 5‐year programme, students may select clinical pharmacy as a professional option, thus receiving an additional 10‐credit h of clinical instructions. The decision to expand the clinical component of the pharmacy curriculum was prompted by the need for patient‐oriented pharmacy practitioners. The performance of graduates who had been rather briefly exposed to clinical pharmacy education led to this expansion.