Clinical pharmacologist from the eyes of a clinical pharmacologist: a questionnaire-based survey.
Clinical pharmacologist
Clinical pharmacology
Pharmacology
Post-graduation
Survey
Journal
European journal of clinical pharmacology
ISSN: 1432-1041
Titre abrégé: Eur J Clin Pharmacol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 1256165
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
19
08
2022
accepted:
21
10
2022
pubmed:
29
10
2022
medline:
15
11
2022
entrez:
28
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Management of a clinical condition is patient centric. Interdisciplinary coordination plays an influential role in patient management. Pharmacology deals with the study of drugs. Clinical pharmacology deals with applied aspects of pharmacology in addition to clinical research. We set up a survey to assess the perceptions of clinical pharmacologists (CPs) regarding their roles and about clinical pharmacology courses in India. The survey was administered via a Google questionnaire sent via LinkedIn, Email, or WhatsApp to 100 CP's working in India. Respondents to the questionnaire were working as CPs. They were either postgraduate in pharmacology (MD pharmacology (doctor of medicine in pharmacology) 60.2%) or had a super-specialization degree in clinical pharmacology (DM clinical pharmacology (doctorate in medicine in clinical pharmacology) (34.7%)) or other pharma postgraduates. They were working in pharmaceutical companies (41.8%), hospitals (26.5%), or academic institutions (30.6%). When the responses from the respondents were stratified by qualification or experience, they showed that most of the CPs felt that the CPs played a significant role in academia, pharmaceutical organizations, hospitals, and drug regulatory bodies. All the CPs opined that training during the postgraduation course was not sufficient to be qualified as CP. There was no consensus among the CPs on the benefit of existing certification courses in clinical research. However, they felt that the centres offering these courses should be accredited, and the curriculum should be uniform. Respondents opined that CPs' patient management role could be improved by collaborating with clinicians and organizing workshops and conferences.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36305906
doi: 10.1007/s00228-022-03409-9
pii: 10.1007/s00228-022-03409-9
pmc: PMC9615618
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2003-2011Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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