Abstract--The focus of pharmacy education has shifted from product oriented to patient centre care. In the case of patient oriented, Pharmacist plays an important role in assuring the efficacy of drug to patient and preventing patient from the adverse drug event. In doing this responsibility, a pharmacist should serve their patient directly. Anybody who choose the profession should aware and run it with all their heart and sincerely. This study aimed to describe the perception of first year pharmacy student toward the pharmacy profession that they choose. Views and attitudes of first year pharmacy student were explored by a questionnaire survey towards the Pharmacy profession. The result showed most of student knew the pharmacy field before they enter the pharmacy institution. Fifty five percent of them chose pharmacy as their first choice.Twenty five percent of them claimed that they feel dissatisfied about their choice in studying in pharmacy department. Most of the student claimed that they knew very well about the scope of pharmacy profession. The pharmacy department head and team need to support the unsatisfied student in order to make them love pharmacy study and pharmacy professsion.
Abstract; Pharmacy profession (pharmacist) is one of the health profession which has high responsibility for the patient health and safety. In doing this responsibility, a pharmacist should serve their patient directly. Anybody who choose the profession should aware and run it with all their heart and sincerely. This study aimed to describe the perception of fourth year pharmacy student toward the pharmacy profession that they choose. A questionnaire survey that explored their attitudes and views towards the Pharmacy profession was chosen for this study. The result showed that although at the beginning the choice to study in pharmacy was not the first one for a large number of students, as time went by, most of them felt satisfy to spend their life in studying pharmacy. Most of them knew very well about the scope of pharmacy profession. Most of Pharmay students chose the subject for their final research which related to the work field that they like to do after graduation. The 17.81 % of the pharmacy students would like to work at the pharmacy service centre (i.e hospital and community pharmacy) that directly serve the patient while others chose the other work filed. Pharmacy education should consider the currikulum which meet the work field need and that enhance the student competence.
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