Pharmaceutical scientists training

Blouin, R.A. Cloyd, J.C. Ludden, T.M. Kroboth, P.D. Central issues relevant to clinical pharmaceutical scientist training programs. Pharmacotherapy 1991, II, 257-263. 

A clinical pharmaceutical scientist is an independent investigator with education and training in pharmacothe-rapeutics who utilizes contemporary research approaches to generate new knowledge relevant to drug behavior in humans, to therapeutic interventions, and/or to patient outcomes. 

The term clinical pharmaceutical scientist was originally developed within the profession of pharmacy and was applied to pharmacy practitioners who became scientists. The concept of a CPS originated with the Millis Commission in 1975, which described the need for people who are equally skilled and trained in a science and in pharmacy practice. This commission proposed the vision of training skilled pharmacy practitioners in research to increase the number and variety of clinical pharmacists. " Since the original definition, the concept has evolved, and. several subsequent definitions have... 

Evans, W.E. Training of Clinical Pharmaceutical Scientists. In American College of Clinical Pharmacy Report, Burckart, G..I., Ed. ACCP 1987 Vol. 6 (7), S22-S24. 

Key questions to be addressed by the Commission included What is the mission of pharmacy practice that should serve as the basis for pharmaceutical education What types of pharmacy manpower are needed to fulfill this mission What should be the curricular emphasis in an entry-level pharmacy practice degree What should be the length of the curriculum and title of the degree When should differentiation occur in the continuum of pharmaceutical education and training, and what arc the roles of postgraduate educational experiences What are the needs of the pharmacy enterprise for pharmaceutical scientists and clinical scientists, and what are appropriate models for such training What changes in accreditation standards should be made by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education to facilitate the broad implementation of such reforms ... 

This latter objective was entirely consistent with the academic objectives regarding the training of pharmaceutical scientists. 

The field of biosensors was bom out of the collaboration between scientists from a variety of different disciplines physicists, chemists, medical and pharmaceutical scientists, biologists, electronic engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. All of these scientists will be able to consult this work without any difficulty and find information to complement their original training. Any criticisms or remarks from these readers will be most welcome. 

Analytical chemistry is an important field in the life sciences whether the main focus is health (pharmaceutical chemistry), nutrition (food chemistry), food supply (pesticide chemistry), environment (water chemistry, waste minimization, disposal or treatment) or lifestyle (textiles, mobility, cosmetics). Thus chemists (and other scientists) working analytically, whether they are trained originally as analytical chemists or whether they come from a different field and use analytical chemistry as support for their research area, play an important role in supporting the progress in the life sciences. 

Our main motivation for writing Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry derived from our experience in teaching microwave chemistry in the form of short courses and workshops to researchers from the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, the structure of this book closely follows a course developed for the American Chemical Society and can be seen as a compendium for this course. It is hoped that some of the chapters of this book are sufficiently convincing as to encourage scientists not only to use microwave synthesis in their research, but also to offer training for their students or co-workers. 

In order to place the later chapters in proper context. Chapter 1 offers a comprehensive review of biotransformation from the perspective of a large pharmaceutical company (GSK) and Chapter 2 gives an introduction that allows an appreciation of molecular biology for scientists with no formal training in this area. 

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