title: Medication management in primary and secondary schools.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify whether and how pharmacy faculty members are addressing the issue of medication management in primary or secondary schools in their teaching, research, and service activities, and to ascertain the extent to which they think the issue is an important one.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four hundred ninety-nine faculty members completed a questionnaire inquiring about the research, teaching, and service activities in which they participated that related to medication management in schools.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 33 subjects (6.6%) addressed the topic of medication management in schools in their courses; only 13 (2.6%) conducted research on the topic; and only 30 (6%) were involved in service in this area. On the other hand, 432 respondents (86.6%) believed that the issue of medication management in schools was either somewhat or extremely important.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a large gap between the number of subjects that think medication management in schools is an important topic and the number who actually include the topic in teaching, research, and or service.
authors.affiliation: Chicago College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reutzel
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004358:Drug Therapy; D005178:Faculty; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010595:Pharmacists; D012573:School Nursing; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires