Clinical Pharmacy Faculty Provision of Direct Patient Care, Challenges, and Opportunities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quadripartite mission of clinical track faculty members involves research, teaching, services, and direct patient care. However, the extent of faculty involvement in direct patient care remains a challenge. Thus, the study's objective is to evaluate the effort spent on direct patient care by clinical faculty of pharmacy schools in Saudi Arabia (S.A.) and identify factors that hinder or facilitate providing direct patient care services.

Methods

This multi-institutional, cross-sectional questionnaire study conducted between July 2021 and March 2022 involved several pharmacy schools' clinical pharmacy faculty members in S.A. The primary outcome was the percentage of time/effort spent on patient care services and other academic responsibilities. The secondary outc

SUBMITTER: Korayem GB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10213266 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature