Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy
Department staff
Education Overview
The purpose of the educational training provided by this department is to help the students (by means of lectures, seminars, excursions and practical courses) to understand the basic principles of services, management, organization and legislation in the healthcare.
The study is focused mainly on the pharmaceutical care, pharmacy practice, principles of drug policy, development and regulative patterns in pharmaceutical branches, the factors changing the therapeutical value of drugs, and the methods of observation and interpretation of the drug consumption and need. These hang together with the detailed training and orientation in the searching, developing and interpretation of information in topics dealing with drugs (patients´ individual pharmacotherapy, self-medication, the effectiveness and benefits maximization, minimization of the drug risks and support of the patient´s adherence to the rational pharmacotherapy).
The next important task is to gain the high-quality basic knowledge of the legal and economic rules, the principles of communication with the patients and the professional community as well, understanding of the ethical aspects of the pharmacist´s profession.
The department is the organizational and responsible guarantee of the quality and professional level of all students´ practical courses provided in the pharmacies and the other healthcare workplaces (in-patient departments, laboratories, pharmaceutical industry).
During the opening years of the study the students are prepared for the more specialized levels by passing the objects History and Organization of Pharmacy, Ethics in Health Service, Health Care Psychology, Social Interaction and Comunication, Industrial Pharmacy and Basics of Legislation – Drug Policy in EU. The socio-economic academic specializations Pharmacoinformatics and Social Pharmacy directly develop the knowledge gained throughout the History of Pharmacy and Economics and Management of Pharmaceutical Practice. Students learn the principles of the drug policy (both the global and the national level), the basics of pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics and the cardinal conceptions in the social medicine. Social Pharmacy is followed by the detailed education in Pharmacy Practice – a pharmaceutical branch where the greatest number of the graduates find theinr positions.The students study all the activities dealing with drugs: their preparation, mass production, delivery, storage, control and dispensing; economic, administrative, information and consulting activities are explained too. Simultaneously the pedagogical process continues in bio- and socio-medical objects, mainly in Clinical Pharmacy, Drug Risks and Pharmaceutical Care. All the students´ knowledge has to be concentrated and harmonized in order to provide and support the rational choice and use of drugs, especially in selected groups of the drugs and nosological units.
Postgraduate Study
Study programs:
Research Overview
Basic trend in research is the analysis of factors that influence the therapeutic value, consumption and need of drugs. Simultaneously the historical continuity of various activities in pharmaceutical professions is studied.
This Department develops methods in pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics, studies differences in drug policy of foreign countries, analyses accessible database systems focused on the drug, patient and diagnosis too. Methods observing the quality of life are developped currently. The influence of actual changes in all spheres of healthcare and manipulation with drugs upon the patients´ compliance and adherence is statistically recorded. A specific problem is the analysis and documentation of drug errors and factors which might improve the situation.
Partners of the Department in professional co-operation
The Centre of Clinical Pharmacology of the University Hospital in Hradec Králové, the Czech Pharmaceutical Chamber, the Section of Clinical Pharmacy of ČFS ČLS JEP, theGeriatric Clinic of the 1-st Medical School of Charles University in Prague, the Health Insurance Company Škoda, the Czech Pharmaceutical Museum.
Abroad contacts: the University Utrecht in Holland, the University Cardiff in Great Britain, the University Iowa in the USA.