Integrating Informatics to Pharmacy Curricula

This is an article about the implementation of informatics awareness to pharmacy. Since informatics has increase in the last years many organizations has committed to increase the awareness of use in informatics. Pharmacy is not left behind in the use of informatics, since many universities has integrated courses of informatics to their curriculum in a way to educate students the importance of technology and the different ways to use it in our profession.
Domain one: student exit competencies in informatics – expertise in informatics is one of the require competencies for pharmacy graduates.
Domain two: informatics as an aid to student learning -  is for students to learn to appreciate the importance of technology.

Domain three: support for individual faculty efforts in promoting informatics -  all the faculty and administration need to know how to handle and work with technology in order to provide the knowledge to students.

Domain four: academic leadership within healthcare pharmacy informatics - within the pharmacy informatics area, we are not the experts in software design

Domain five: graduate programs in pharmacy informatics given the necessity for pharmacy academic -  provide students with  research, training, development, and implementation of pharmacy

informatics by the profession and disciplines within pharmacy

This quote was from the article Implementing Pharmacy Informatics in College Curricula: The AACP Technology in Pharmacy Education and Learning Special Interest Group.


Reference: Vanderbush, R, 2007. Implementing Pharmacy Informatics in College Curricula: The AACP Technology in Pharmacy Education and Learning Special Interest Group. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2007; 71 (6) Article 117

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