The 145th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (Fukuoka)

Organizer: Jun-ichi Takaki (Fukuoka City Pharmacetical Association), Daisuke Kobayashi (Grad. Sch. Pharm., Kyushu Univ.)

Fifty years have passed since the full-scale division of prescribing and dispensing, with outpatient prescription issuance rates exceeding 80% and over 850 million prescriptions dispensed annually at pharmacies. Recent advancements in therapy have led to community pharmacists managing an increasingly diverse range of outpatient prescriptions. As generalists, pharmacists need broad expertise to handle pharmacotherapy across various diseases. In response to these evolving demands, the Fukuoka City Pharmacists' Association, in collaboration with Kyushu University's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Hospital Pharmacy Department, developed a new postgraduate training program. This program aims to enhance pharmacists' capabilities in safe, effective, and patient-specific drug use by covering fundamentals from pharmacokinetics to pharmacology and building a solid understanding of pharmacotherapy and pathology. Sustained implementation is expected to develop pharmacists who are indispensable to patient care and community health. This symposium will discuss the systematic design of continuous postgraduate training and the strengthening of partnerships to improve pharmacist quality.