Medication management in primary and secondary schools.
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.
Reutzel
Thomas
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Chicago College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, USA.
Watkins
Melissa
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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