The Perception of Fourth Year Pharmacy Student of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Towards the Pharmacy Profession

DOI

10.2991/ichlas-17.2017.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

pharmacist; pharmacy profession; pharmacy student; perception; community pharmacy

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 forth 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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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yardi Yardi
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