A more practical knowledge in pharmaceuticals, key attention to improve the dispensation of drugs.

-Pharmaceutical professionals include practical training received in the University as the key to improving care

– believe that it is necessary to prove and provide a continuous training professionals

Vigo, October 2011- the 7th National Congress of pharmaceutical care of the Pharmaceutical Care Foundation, which was held last week in VigoHe developed a table in which several experts from the pharmaceutical sector defended a more practical knowledge by professionals in pharmaceutical care is key to improve the dispensation of drugs.

The table of experts was moderated by the DRA. Mª Pilar Gascón with the title: training and research: challenges for the immediate future, which was held from September 29 to October 1 in Vigo.

The event featured the following rapporteurs Jose Antonio Fornos, President of the Organizing Committee of the 7th Edition of the Congress, Dr. Lucrecia Moreno Royo of the Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, the Dra.Marian March coordinator general stays in Tuteladas practices, Faculty of pharmacy, University of BarcelonaAna Gangoso, management attention Primara of Madrid, and Fernando Fernández-Llimos, doctor of pharmacy.

Dr Lucrecia Moreno stressed that University centres have commit themselves to the training of students to be enabling pharmaceutical future to comply with this work and provide medications working and engaging with the patient in that the results will be that the doctor was proposed when just prescribed them ”.

In this regard, it was considered necessary to the pharmacy student has contact with the patient since that starts the degree, learn to identify your needs while you are studying, and develops the skills aimed to implement the knowledge acquired throughout his career with patients ”.

For his part, Juan Antonio Fornos, indicated that is necessary to accredit professionals and provide them with a training. All this in order to train them in the performance of its welfare work ”.

In this regard, the President of the Organizing Committee emphasized that the training has to be accredited by an agency to ensure the good work done every day in pharmacies ”.

The presentation of Fernando Fernández-Llimos, doctor of pharmacy, covered on research in pharmacy practice; the advantages for the improvement of pharmaceutical practice; the need for specialisation in research to perform quality research; the role of the pharmacist in exercise of such research through practice-based research networks ”

Ana Belén Gangoso pharmaceuticals, also stressed that if you want to perform continuous pharmaceutical care need a commitment to ongoing training that must be aimed at more clinical aspects in Pharmacotherapy in most practical cases ”.

Finally, Marian March detailed training carried out at the University of Barcelona in protected practices, focuses on practice in action and promotes a reflective learning through experiences that allow analyzing the needs of patients in the effective implementation of the exercise of pharmaceutical care experiential development-oriented These services ”.