The clinical pharmacy program is set with the aim of providing the student pharmacist with educational experiences in a clinical setting. The program is designed to help the student to better prepare for his future role as a health professional. The objectives of clinical pharmacy are as follows:
• The program allows the student to develop himself by
using his independent judgment by following a drug therapy of selected patients
and through case presentation technique.
• It gives the student experience in small group
presentations and in answering questions regarding therapy asked by his
professional colleagues and physicians and/or nurses.
• It also allows the student to observe and interact
with a physician to get a better understanding of the current medical practice.
• It gives opportunity to students to work with
paramedical personnel and increase their knowledge about their attitudes and
contributions to patient care.
• It helps the student to gain a patient orientation
towards drug therapy so that he may fulfill better professional services to his
patients.
• It gives the student a better knowledge of the
effects of drugs on diagnostic tests and various drug interactions which may occur
in multiple drug therapy so that he may give a better service to his
patients.
• It gives the students an experience of drug
information retrieval through drug evaluation.
• It also gives the student an experience of the institutional
environment by recognizing that most pharmacists practice in an institute.