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Pharmacy Education in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: The Lebanese American University School of Pharmacy Experience.

Between 2019 and 2026, Lebanon faced a cascade of severe crises, including financial and economic collapse, political instability, COVID-19, the Beirut Port explosion, and armed conflicts, that disrupted higher education. This manuscript describes how the Lebanese American University (LAU) School of Pharmacy (SOP) maintained its mission during this period of turmoil and presents a framework for pharmacy education in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FACS). During that period, the SOP adopted flexible teaching models (in-person, hybrid, and online), increased the use of simulation-based l…

Examining Delineated Competencies within Blended Hospital/Health System Pharmacy and General Medicine Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences.

In the United States, Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) programs are required to provide advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) in the core inpatient rotation areas of hospital/health system pharmacy and inpatient general medicine patient care. Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy (C/SOPs) nationwide are increasingly utilizing blended or longitudinal APPE models to offer experiential opportunities; however, there is a gap in the literature to support programs with delineating rotation-specific competencies when integrating two or more rotations together. Utilizing a survey instrument, PharmD stu…

Contested space in the pharmacy: public attitudes to pharmacy harm reduction services in the West of Scotland.

BACKGROUND: Internationally, community pharmacies have become increasingly involved in providing harm reduction services and health advice to people who use illicit drugs. OBJECTIVE: This paper considers public opinion of community pharmacy services. It discusses attitudes to harm reduction services in the context of stigmatization of addiction and people who use drugs. METHODS: This exploratory study involved twenty-six purposively sampled members of the public, from the West of Scotland, participating in one of 5 focus groups. The groups were composed to represent known groups of users and…

A Versatile Prison Psychiatric Pharmacy Program.

BACKGROUND: Before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, 20% of the adult population in the United States experienced mental ill … macists following patients in chronic care psychiatry visits. OBJECTIVES: An inpatient psychiatric pharmacy clinic was launched to fill gaps to provide safe and up-to-date patient-centric services for more than 240 extremely psychiatrically ill inmate patients at the Federal Correctional Center Butner (FCC Butner), a Federal Bureau of Prisons medical cent …

Pharmacy-based expansion of buprenorphine access.

INTRODUCTION: Access to evidence-based medication treatment is a challenge for most Americans with opioid use disorder. New models of collaborative care that actively incorporate pharmacists are being trialed. METHODS: We author a commentary based on our experiences providing clinical care as part of a randomized controlled trial of pharmacy-based addiction care. RESULTS: This commentary describes some of the experiences of working with a Collaborative Practice Agreement between pharmacists and physicians to provide pharmacy-based, low-threshold buprenorphine access. CONCLUSION: Given that …

Wellness: Pharmacy education's role and responsibility.

The root cause of most chronic diseases in America is self-inflicted through an unhealthy lifestyle including poor diet, insufficient exercise, inability to maintain a healthy weight, tobacco use, and excessive alcohol consumption. Americans' ability to adhere to healthy lifestyles appears to be declining.1,2 The pharmacy profession, while positioned to provide an answer to this problem, has done little. In addition, academic pharmacy's primary focus is on drugs and diseases with limited instruction in the area of wellness. It is time for pharmacy education to step up and take a leadership rol…

[Immunization of pharmacy students in Japan].

We conducted a survey on the immunization requirements of the students in the fourth year of the 4-year-course departments of pharmacy in Japan by using a self-administered questionnaire, which was mailed to the directors of the institutes. Of the 61 departments invited, 54 responded. Program of seroprevalence examination or vaccination was not in place against measles, rubella, mumps and varicella, and hepatitis B in 31.5% (17/54), 53.7% (29/54), 57.4% (31/54), and 68.5% (37/54), respectively. Surveillance of the history of infection and vaccination was carried out in 21 departments, but only…

[Tin compounds in pharmacy and nutrition].

The occurrence of tin in plants, animals and humans is discussed, in relation to its abundance in the lithosphere and hydrosphere and the range of the different tin(II) and tin(IV) complexes formed. A reasoned consideration of its essentiality for living species is provided. It is concluded that tin is beneficial, even if not yet proved to be an essential element. After reference to the chemistry of tin compounds, there is a detailed discussion of their toxicity in animals and humans. Feasible routes for tin intake and uptake into humans are described. The past and current use of tin pharmaceu

Pharmacy Homeless Outreach Engagement Non-medical Independent Prescribing Rx (PHOENIx) Community Pharmacy-Based Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aiming to address the multiple health and social challenges of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) are lacking. Here we report the findings from a multicenter, open, pilot RCT. The intervention involved independent prescriber pharmacist from the National Health Service working on outreach in partnership with dedicated workers from Homeless Voluntary Charity or Social Enterprises (HVCSEs) (Pharmacist and third sector charity worker integrated Homeless Outreach Engagement Non-medical Independent prescriber Rx'-PHOENIx) in low threshold HVCSE venues or tempo

Perceived Knowledge and Confidence of Beta-Lactam Allergy Management Among Pharmacy Students on Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences.

Pharmacist engagement in allergy clarification has demonstrated increased appropriate antibiotic use. The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge and confidence of pharmacy students in their final professional year regarding beta-lactam (BL) allergies. Students from 5 schools of pharmacy participated in a 22-question survey pertaining to experience with drug allergies, knowledge of BL allergies, and confidence regarding BL allergy management. Data were summarized among all respondents and further analyzed by infectious disease (ID) interest. A total of 160/521 students responded t…

Headache Management in Community Pharmacies.

Many headache patients self-medicate and choose their preferred analgesic from a range of acute analgesics available on the high-street and from community pharmacies. Little is known about their presenting symptoms, headache diagnosis and their preferred treatments. A questionnaire was distributed to community pharmacies in the Munster region of Ireland and was administered to patients requesting treatment for headache. A total of 1023 completed questionnaires were received, 76.7% (n=765) were female and 51.8% were aged 18-39 years. 53.3% (n=542) were not previously diagnosed by a GP and 49.6%

49th ESCP virtual symposium on clinical pharmacy 19.10.2021-21.10.2021 Clinical pharmacy, working collaboratively in mental health care.

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… Research Group Clinical Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacy , Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 4 Hospital Pharmacy and Doctoral Programm Clinical Pharmacy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany, 5 Department of Pharmacy, Unit of Pharmacotherapy, Epidemiology … , Zagreb, Croatia, 2 Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 3 Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, 4 Community Pharmacy Sonja Grbac Stublić, Zagreb, 5 Community Pharmacy chain Lijek Đakovo, Đakovo, 6 Community Pharmacy Poljak-Radnić …

Potential for Pharmacy-Public Health Collaborations Using Pharmacy-Based Point-of-Care Testing Services for Infectious Diseases.

CONTEXT: Health care professionals must continually identify collaborative ways to combat antibiotic resistance while improving community he … the potential for pharmacists to collaborate with public health professionals and prescribers using pharmacy-based CLIA-waived POCT services for infectious diseases. DESIGN: Comprehensive literature review. SETTING: PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for manuscripts and meeting abstracts for the following key words: infectious disease, community pha …