Abstract
Each year, many pharmacy students and new practitioners embark into one of the more feared rotations of the advanced pharmacy practice curriculum: pediatrics. This hesitation may stem from a fear of the unfamiliar. In fact, the mean time in doctor of pharmacy didactic curricula devoted to pediatric topics is 17 hours (range, 2.8–52.8 hours) including elective courses.1 Yet many pharmacists will be involved in the care of pediatric patients, regardless of their chosen practice site. Ranelli et al.2 found in a recent survey of pharmacists that 87% of respondents (170/195) reported filling a prescription for a pediatric patient on a daily basis. The purpose of this article is to provide the pharmacy student or new practitioner with basic principles of pediatric pharmacy practices, tips for interacting with pediatric patients, and an overview of drug information sources available for pediatrics pharmacists from the perspective of four former postgraduate year 2 pediatrics pharmacy residents.
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