Community Home Healthcare in 6-Year Pharmacy Education

Abstract

As we enter more and more into a super-aging society, the requirement for home healthcare will increase. Pharmacists must work along with doctors and nurses in the field of home healthcare. Within the 6-year pharmacy curriculum, we must educate students as medicinal professionals who will join a medical team to serve the community. The Good Practice (GP) program, which has been supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, continues to be offered in our university. As a part of this program, students learn home healthcare in the community in cooperation with Yubari Medical Center. In addition, our students (pharmacy) can study community medicine together with students from Tenshi College (nursing and nutrition) in an optional class made available in Yubari during their summer vacation. According to the results of our survey after these programs, students have achieved a deep recognition of the importance of community medicine and cooperation with other medical staff in contributing to community home healthcare. We carry out these programs under agreements of collaboration with Yubari Medical Center and Tenshi College. We will talk today about training for pharmaceutical care in the community and the effect of training through this class on pharmacy education.