Perception and knowledge of pharmacy students on concept of pharmaceutical care

The gradual transition in the professional responsibilities of the pharmacist from a traditional task to a more patient-centered care had been commercialized as a practice philosophy that represents all the services responsibly provided by pharmacists to patient in medication related therapy to achieve definite outcomes and improves patients' quality of life. This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and perception of the graduating year pharmacy students towards the concept of pharmaceutical care. Method: The modified questionnaires were distributed to the fourth year pharmacy students with total of 101 respondents. The questionnaires consist of three parts to determine the level of knowledge of pharmacy student towards pharmaceutical care Results: The findings of this study shows there are several significance differences where most of the students that enter B.Pharm program because of other reasons which are to obtain a high academic achievement, they want a steady job that will provide a good job opportunity, and because of their own interest to become pharmacist obtained the higher perception score. Besides, high percentage of students from Diploma in Pharmacy obtained 'excellent' and 'good' score Conclusion: Pharmacy students at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) had a positive perception towards the concept of pharmaceutical care. The education, training activity and syllabus provided may encourage the development of future pharmacists who are motivated and well-prepared to practice and incorporated into the concept of pharmaceutical care into the real clinical setting in future.