Strategic initiatives to maintain pharmaceutical care and clinical pharmacists sufficiency in Saudi Arabia:

SAGE Open Medicine

Abdulkareem MAlbekairy¹ 

关键词: Clinical pharmacists shortage;    Saudi Arabia;    clinical pharmacy;    career ladder;    residency training;    international faculty recruitment;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2050312115594816

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Objectives:The shortage of clinical pharmacists in Saudi Arabia has limited the full implementation of pharmaceutical care in most of its hospitals. The National Guard Health Affairs hospitals. This work discussed the Department of Pharmaceutical Care, and the King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences College of Pharmacy four initiatives that were planned in 2009–2010 to develop and recruit clinical pharmacists, practitioners, or faculty.Methods:The combined initiatives were aimed at (1) instituting a 4-year clinical skills development career ladder, (2) expanding the National Guard Health Affairs postgraduate residency program, (3) offering scholarships to qualified pharmacy graduates to pursue the PharmD degree and a PGY-1 residency training in the United States, and (4) recruiting non-Saudi clinical pharmacists educated and trained in the United States to ameliorate the current shortage of practitioner.Results:The current number of clinical pharmacists practicing at the National Guard Heal...

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