Pharmacy as a profession is on a path of significant change with many external and internal influences on the nature and conceptions of professional practice and the diverse and changing nature of this knowledge in turn creates a challenge for pharmacy educators. Conceptual changes to pharmacy knowledge and practice have profound pedagogical implications for how pharmacy education will change over the next few years. This study makes an original contribution to knowledge in pharmacy education, both in terms of the methodology used (the use of artefacts to explore learning with pharmacy students and the use of theory from anthropology, fine art and literature from English medieval poetry to view the data) and also in terms of the findings. The key findings of the study are that artefacts afford access to insight into pharmacy students’ learning, and use of these identified a number of learning and assessment practices, particularly some normally un-noticed practices. Using fine art to view participants’ assessment practices has allowed insight into their conceptions of assessment (as the summative written examination) and hence their views on feedback. In particular there was a strong affective dimension expressed in participants’ accounts of their learning, which is often ignored in teaching, learning and assessment practices. Participants’ learning is constructed through a ‘meshwork’ of interconnected and interwoven practices. The difficulties experienced by participants were explored and were found to be primarily modal (relating to a particular way of thinking or practising) or ontological (relating to ‘being’ or ‘becoming’ as a pharmacy student or to their professional identity). Recommendations for MPharm curriculum development at Robert Gordon University are discussed along with the implications for the wider professional community. (Please note this is a redacted version of the thesis. Some images have been removed for copyright reasons.)

English version Subject: Pharmacy in the Czech lands between 1938/39 and 1945. Objective: Study of pharmacy in the Czech Lands between 1938 and 1945 and study of the pharmaceutical branches, especially pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical education, pharmaceutical industry and professional organizations during the World War II. Methods: Processing of the historical pharmaceutical press from Czech pharmaceutical museum in Kuks. Results: The financial situation of pharmaceutical staff between 1939 and 1945 was increased by pay rise and turnover rise in pharmacy. Short supply of ingredients was equalized by increase in drug production in pharmaceutical industry. University education of pharmacists was stopped by Germans in 1939. Jewish companies in pharmaceutical industry were impouded by german merchants. Conclusion: Business in pharmacy during the World War II was successful for pharmacy owners and their employees. Many pharmaceutical problems such as increase in pharmaceutical rates, build up of Pharmaceutical centre and particular unification of professional organizations was resolved.

PHARMACIES IN GREECE Author: Georgios Zacharakis Tutor: RNDr. Jana Kotlářová, Ph.D. Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Aim of diploma thesis: The aim is to get current facts and knowledge about the situation of pharmacies in Greece, including their basic problems, and to compare it with the Czech Republic. Methods: Data collection through appreciation of information and studying of literature, esp. Greek legislation. Results: It was given necessary information on the National Health System in Greece and about place and role of pharmacies in this. The main part of thesis deals wits pharmacies in Greece (legislation, statistics, pharmacists, activities in pharmacy). There are many private community pharmacies and low amount of hospital pharmacies which are only for inpatients. Both Greece and Czech Republic made considerable efforts in latest years to harmonize their legislation to the European standards. However, a significant difference between Greece and Czech Republic is profit margins of wholesalers, which are higher in the Czech Republic in comparison to Greece, while the production of drugs in Greece is significant higher than Czech Republic, which based more in its neighboring countries for the supply...

Thesis (Ph. D. (Education))--Rhodes University, 2006.