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Introduction

Professionalism in Pharmacy Practice: A Primer for Career Success

Professionalism - is a mean group of thinking that is specific to the kind of people.

Primer - when we talk about primers that mean something that the foundation will make
it look perfect.

Professional (n.) a person with much experience and great skill in a specified role who
has engaged in a specific occupation for pay or ad a means of livelihood.

Antonyms are amateur.

Criteria

• The unique and exclusive scope of practice

Unique means one of the kind and exclusive means special. For example, the pharmacist is the
only one who knows inside out about medicine starting from drug discovery until making it into
the formulation and then acting inside the body. Not only the drug property that pharmacists
should know about, but they also need to apply in real humans. How can adjust the dose, the
awareness of science, All those kinds of things that are unique? Although physicians do study
medicine just a little portion, to be able to prescribe but for us in order to dispense medicine you
need to know a bunch of things, you need to know how the physician diagnoses the disease as
well. Otherwise, you won’t be able to see how you help them with the medication. So it is unique
and exclusive for this group of people.

• Minimum education standards and accreditation of educational programs

The engineer and architect know exactly about structure, construction exactly about everything
before you can build the building. And they would be the ones who have minimum requirements,
a standard of learning of their curriculum. About the accreditation programs like KKU pharmacy
education programs, there is a pharmacy council to accredited programs

• Minimum standards of entry into practice
• Required credentials such as licenses or certifications. You need to have a qualification to
take the exam to get the credentials and then you will earn licenses or certifications.

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