福岡大学病院における薬剤師レジデント制度の構築

Abstract

In April 2006,Fukuoka University Hospital started a resident pharmacist system for the postgraduate training of pharmacists.After the completion of the general practice (GP) course which takes 1 year,students choose specialty courses from a list that includes those on cancer chemotherapy and diabetic medicine.The GP course includes practical training (about 1,800 hours),lectures (40 hours),Problem Based Learning (six hours,excluding time for collecting data),role-playing in informed consent training (two hours),and field training at another hospital (one week) and a pharmacy (two days).Six months after the start of the GP course,we conducted a survey of resident pharmacists and staff pharmacists to assess the validity of the program.In the results,training in dispensing was cited as the most useful by the resident pharmacists.Next came TPN (total parenteral nutrition),mixing of injectable anti-cancer drugs and drug counseling for in-patients.However,few of them said that the learning goals set for the program had been achieved,which indicates the necessity of establishing an advanced GP course in the second year so that students can learn more about a wide range of basic pharmacist tasks.Ninety-seven percent of the staff pharmacists responded that the program was beneficial for the pharmacy department,indicating that it could enhance human resources and staff motivation.Our findings show that the resident pharmacist system is instructive and useful for not only in postgraduate education but also for the pharmacy department.