Pharmacy Practice should cover Clinical, Social & Administrative related disciplines.
Clinical Pharmacy involves all patient-oriented activities to optimise the therapeutic outcomes of the given medications, including clinical trials, therapeutic interventions, drug repurposing, personalized medicines.
In addition, pharmacy practice focuses on the impact of activities, such as smoking cessation counselling, medication-therapy management (MTM), pharmacovigilance, and pharmacoeconomics. Evidence-based practice (EBP) research involves examining peer-reviewed literature and guidelines or examining and collecting data to determine what treatments are best for a patient, hospital, or healthcare system.
Social & Administrative services include psycho-socio-cultural factors, such as health literacy and health beliefs, which can impact patient-provider communication and medication-taking behavior. In addition to, epidemiology courses which examine the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in the overall population as well as in certain populations. Educational research is also included, which focuses on determining teaching methodology and learning strategies that best prepare students to become competent pharmacists
