Abstract
Pharmacy undergraduate courses in Ruhuna, while is more practice focus than many of the other courses in Sri Lanka, it is still missing clinical pharmacy elements. Collaboration between academic staff from Ruhuna University and two international clinical pharmacy academics was established in 2014. The aim of this paper is to report on a clinical pharmacy training program, delivered by the international academics and supported by the Sri Lankan academics to pharmacy students in 2015-2016. After short conceptualisation lecture on each topic, there was a workshop which was structured as team case-based learning progressive case studies. Topics included mental health, pharmacokinetics, interpreting laboratory results, parenteral drug compatibility, special hospital compounding and medication review, of which all were assessed in the final examination. Student found team based learning to be engaging and enabled them to independently and critically think in a safe environment and preferable over the traditional lectures.
Highlights
Pharmacy practice has always been and remains an essential part of healthcare
All of them are registered as pharmacists with the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC)
The aim of this paper is to report on a clinical pharmacy and mental health first aid training program, delivered in 2015 to a fourth-year bachelor of pharmacy students from the University of Ruhuna and to train the staff to be able to teach the material independently in the future and is based upon student feedback
Summary
Pharmacy practice has always been and remains an essential part of healthcare. In Sri Lanka, pharmacy practice is less evolved than in Australia or some of its Asian neighbours. The major contribution of pharmacists to current practice in Sri Lanka is dispensing either in community pharmacies or hospital pharmacies. The majority of the hospital pharmacists have a proficiency (two years’ graduate diploma) pharmacy qualification the rest have a bachelor degree. Many community pharmacists have a graduate certificate or graduate diplomas level vocational qualification. All of them are registered as pharmacists with the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC). There are few pharmaceutical companies based in Sri Lanka, and only a small number of graduate pharmacists work in the formulation and production areas or drug regulatory authorities
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