Svetlana Golocorbin-Kon 1, Mladena Lalic 1, Al. Raskovic 2, S. Vukmirovic 2, Z. Tomic 2, M. Mikov 3
1 Department of Pharmacy, Medical Faculty Novi Sad, Serbia
2 Department of Pharmacology Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty Novi Sad, Serbia
3 School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, New Zealand
Abstract
Clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy bring together professionals who have firm rinciples of drug therapy and who aim to improve the safety and efficacy of treat- ments for the benefits of patients. However, there are clear differences, typically in the undergraduate and less prominent in postgraduate education. Clinical pharmacologists and clinical pharmacists are accountable for the same target groups. Clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy share similar and parallel development, history, the same goal and the same financial resources (they compete for the same financial sources). As an academic discipline, Clinical Pharmacology has been developed over the past 40 years, but its impact on health care services has been less conspicuous. Clinical pharmacy has had a quicker and more coordinated development in health care services dominated and synchronized by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, but a less notable advance as academic discipline. Collaboration between clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy should be possible. In practice, competition and domination of one group can always be discerned depending on the country or the area of the country. Clinical pharmacology – clinical pharmacy collaboration is important for the benefit of patients, educa- tion, authorities and clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy associations and development.