Wed. May 15, 2019 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Room 5 (1F Room D)

Organizer:Hideto Ariumi(Kitasato University, Japan)

The purpose of every pharmacist should be improving medication use and advancing patient care. Pharmacists will be the health care professionals responsible for providing patient care that ensures optimal medication therapy outcomes. The profession is moving toward a model that attempts to integrate patient-centered care with drug distribution services. Primary care is one of very important roles. In this symposium, we will discuss “Pharmaceutical knowledge required by Primary Care Pharmacists in Japan”. This symposium is composed of five presentations, “Approach to Primary Care in Community Pharmacy”, “Career choice attitudes and career design of pharmacy students”, “Cross-cultural Interdisciplinary Case Study”, “Effectiveness of pharmacist intervention in community pharmacy for asthma control improvement providing adequate instruction” and “Roles in inter-professional cooperation and healthcare services at home among other healthcare professionals in the community”. The six-year pharmacy programme, focusing on practical pharmaceutical care, includes practical training on-site and was started in 2006 in Japan. The attitudes of the six-year pharmacy students toward career choice are unclear because the programme is relatively new. The interdisciplinary case study lets the students exchange their most recent and evidence based medical skill and knowledge, as well as providing social value and an ethical standpoint across countries. The objective of this symposium is that understand the necessity of a basic knowledge in the provision of primary care.