Doaa M. Hasan, Mona I. El Lawindi
Studies had proved that cooperation between physician and pharmacist provides the patient with best health care outcome. Unfortunately, here in kasr el-aini hospital there is a gap between doctors and pharmacists despite correlation between their studies and work. Clinical pharmacist has proved to be very helpful to physician in many hospital .Despite this fact, most of medical students in kasr el-aini don’t know the meaning of clinical pharmacy. Students in medical collage think of pharmacist as salesman. This gap leads to medical errors. It is important to study about the role of pharmacist in the process of treatment, who deal with the drug better and know more about side effect, contraindication and drug interaction?This gap between our doctors and pharmacist need to be filled to provide patients with best health care.
The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of applying the clinical pharmacy education among Kasr El-Aini medical students as well as exploring the possible collaboration perspectives between students of both medical and pharmacy collage. Also, the study aimed to explore the team work concept among both the medical and pharmacy student after graduation. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among both medical and pharmacy students. The study included 123 medical students aged from 19-24 years who agreed to participate in the study and 100 student from pharmacy college aged from 18-25 years . A questionnaire was distributed to the study participants to explore their training experience and measure their knowledge regarding the medical system and the treatment process flow cycle.The study revealed that 60% of medical student don’t know what the clinical pharmacist is, 7% never heard about it. Also, 14% of the medical students think the pharmacist is useless. While 69% of them didn’t study about the role of pharmacist in treatment process. As for the pharmacy students, 33% of them see the doctor as arrogant person and 29% see doctor ignorant about drugs. Also, 26% of pharmacy students perceive the doctor as competitor and 29% wouldn’t accept that the doctor correct them if they admit an error about drug or drug reaction.The study revealed a wide gap between the medical and pharmacy students. They don’t know that they are on the same side, which make them as doctors and pharmacist competitors more than one team . Need to teach them how to work as one team, how to cooperate together for providing the best medical care to the patient .
