How to implement pharmaceutical care in the curriculum?

Abstract

Pharmacy schools across Cuba have been charged to ensure their students are adequately skilled in the principles and practices of pharmaceutical care. Despite this mandate, a large percentage of students experience insufficient opportunities to practice the activities, tasks and processes essential to pharmaceutical care. This paper presents a point of view about how pharmaceutical care should be incorporated in the curricula for improving the confidence and skills of pharmacists responding to pharmaceutical care practice taking into consideration the ethical dimension of this concept. At the same time, some ideas about this topic are presented, taking as reference, the Cuban experience in pharmaceutical care education, supported in the worldwide recognition of the Cuban Higher Education.