The perception of students as future pharmacists front the pharmaceutical assistance internship

Resumo

To analyze the importance of the application of PC (pharmaceutical care) tools along the curricular internship, according to the point of view of undergraduates of Pharmacy course. And in parallel, to contribute to the dissemination and consolidation of the role of the Pharmacist in the clarification of doubts and identification of drug-related problems (DRP) and the quest for improvement of Pharmacotherapy of medicine users. A qualitative and descriptive research was carried out using a simple and objective questionnaire containing 14 questions about the perception of students as future pharmacists, from sixth to tenth semesters, of the Pharmacy course in State University of Paraíba. The present study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee Involving Humans. The practice of Pharmaceutical Assistance internship offers good repercussions both for students and for the population assisted. In a sample of 100 students, 88% considered the internship as satisfactory, 76% said that the internship attended their expectations and 99% said that this allowed a better knowledge of pharmaceutical care. The supervised internship represents a beneficial relationship between students and the population, as well as provide a better theoretical and practical knowledge to the student, providing an extension of the student's vision over the area of professional performance.