3.1 The Pharmacy Context
Beverley Glass
We as pharmacists have a duty of care to our patients – and in recent years the best provision of that care has involved scientific study – and the resulting transformation of most BPharm degrees to the BPharm Honours in Australia and worldwide to include a research component so that you are trained to deliver on that scientific study.
As we have already learnt, pharmacy research can take on many forms from the pharmaceutical sciences to pharmacy practice: But it is in pharmacy practice research that the transformation has been most noticeable in recent years. Read the article and complete the activity below.
Reading
- Victoria Garcia- Cardenas et al, Pharmacy practice research – A call to action, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 16 (11) 1602-1608.