DaudiAiko
JF-Expert Member
- Dec 2, 2012
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A doomsdays preaching leading to calamity after calamity. Lucifer together with all his sidekicks pacing by hell's verandah while sipping potions to no avail. Maybe it has everything to do with the impending hackathon that will surely show the pile of ruble Windows has always been or just an odd day where everyone happens to be shopping for toilet paper at the mall. Contingency plans?
Everybody has a contingency plan, everybody knows where to hide when it's all doom and gloom. But it's summer in the magical island of Ibiza. Armani shades for the Palm trees, beautiful music, and sandcastles. A much needed haven for the oncoming snow flakes, Christmas trees and darkness.
Anyway, The United States championed a move that revolutionized health care in their country. The move left health care professionals from other countries salivating with much needed insight needed on the possibility of having pharmacists taking up clinical roles.
From the little that I've gathered, training in their craft is extensive and comes with a much needed residency. A pharmacist can't be useful in a clinical set up if they don't nail their drug-drug interactions and side effects to the nitty gritty details. Physiology, General and systemic pathology, medical microbiology are second nature to any clinician and need to be applied at any residency to produce pharmacists who can connect their knowledge on medical sciences to their expertise on medication. To work their way around this, some universities have introduced postgraduate degrees in Clinical pharmacy but whether or not graduates have similar skills to the US PharmD is questionable.
Not to say that pharmacists can't select the right combination of drugs for cough and flu or diagnose a significant number of conditions, clinicals for pharmacists should be realised with caution
Everybody has a contingency plan, everybody knows where to hide when it's all doom and gloom. But it's summer in the magical island of Ibiza. Armani shades for the Palm trees, beautiful music, and sandcastles. A much needed haven for the oncoming snow flakes, Christmas trees and darkness.
Anyway, The United States championed a move that revolutionized health care in their country. The move left health care professionals from other countries salivating with much needed insight needed on the possibility of having pharmacists taking up clinical roles.
From the little that I've gathered, training in their craft is extensive and comes with a much needed residency. A pharmacist can't be useful in a clinical set up if they don't nail their drug-drug interactions and side effects to the nitty gritty details. Physiology, General and systemic pathology, medical microbiology are second nature to any clinician and need to be applied at any residency to produce pharmacists who can connect their knowledge on medical sciences to their expertise on medication. To work their way around this, some universities have introduced postgraduate degrees in Clinical pharmacy but whether or not graduates have similar skills to the US PharmD is questionable.
Not to say that pharmacists can't select the right combination of drugs for cough and flu or diagnose a significant number of conditions, clinicals for pharmacists should be realised with caution
