Clinical pharmacology
Abstract
Backgrounds: Clinical pharmacology has developed in the second half of 20th century and is now part of an undergraduate and postgraduate studies, being taught as a separate subject on most universities in developed countries. For patients as well as for the society itself, the most important field of clinical pharmacology is rational pharmacotherapy, a rational prescribing and use of drugs.
Conclusions: In the field of education and practice clinical pharmacology is divided into general and specialized clinical pharmacology, which is a part of every branch of medicine. Slovenia needs clinical pharmacology as an obligatory subject of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on medical faculties of Ljubljana and Maribor. In the future, a department of clinical studies in a clinical environment will need to be established. Also, a department or an association for clinical pharmacology needs to be organized. Physicians in Slovenia need Slovenian guidelines and recommendations and the most important international recommendations accessible on internet. What is neccessary is a collaboration between a clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy.
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