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Challenges & Opportunities of Pharmacists
Pharmacy is a profession whose role has historically been defined by its relationship with healthcare system for safe and accurate dispensing of drugs prescribed by the physicians. The concept of pharmacy, as defined in the current edition of the renowned book “ Remington Practices of Pharmacy”, is the art and science of preparing and dispensing medications and the provisions of drug related information to the society. The pharmaceutical sciences and practice have made tremendous progress during the later half of the 20th century. Several life saving drugs like, range of antibiotics (beta lactum derivatives and synthetics) and chemotherapeutics (anti-hypertensive, anti-diabetic, etc.) with new molecules have been discovered during this period and also occasions of some of the diseases have been significantly reduced or even eradicated (e.g. Beriberi, Plague, tuberculosis, leprosy, Polio). The pharmacist from the dispenser of the medicines has emerged as a knowledge – based person who not only dispenses the medicines but also is the manufacturer and quality controller of formulations, provider of information on medicines to the patients and regulator of the healthcare system. The challenge is that the knowledge is even propagated from the academic institutions to the industries, research and development centres, testing laboratories, diagnostic and health centres, hospitals, regulating authorities, medical detailing, as per the specific requirements. Apart from that, the profession of pharmacy is also catering the needs of the society with the constant changes in the environment as it evolves to adjust and maintain a proper role in the healthcare system. This is possible only as the education curriculum is changed to cater the current need of the multiple areas by providing the prospective pharmacists the requisite knowledge, skill and the attitude (the course curriculum available at the website of the universities) to offer the total care in the pharmaceutical field with empathy to the patients. Thus the pharmaceutical education with the requisite subjects of chemical technology plays a very prominent role in attaining the sustainable and equitable development of the country.
Recent changes in healthcare industry have led to shift in the way the pharmacists view their professional obligations. This paradigm shift holds that it is not just the drug dispensing but the total pharmaceutical care of patients, which defines the professional responsibility of the pharmacists.
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