Pharmaceutical Practice, Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmacy Education in Bulgaria
Keywords:
Pharmaceutical care, Bulgaria, Pharmaceutical education, CurriculumAbstract
This paper describes the changes in the pharmaceutical sphere in Bulgaria and, in particular, those that led to an improvement in the curriculum of the Faculty of Pharmacy-Sofia. In the beginning of 2000, a new course in pharmaceutical care was introduced in its Department of Social Pharmacy as a free, eligible subject. The course’s lectures and seminars were held during the first semester of the fifth year of the studies. It was subsequently learned that students were greatly interested in all the topics of the course, a finding that led to a change in its status from free to compulsory. This paper presents the main topics in the course’s lectures and seminars curriculum. The initial outcomes from this new discipline are described.
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