Introduction to management and marketing: Why study management in Pharmacy

  1. Identify changes in the roles of pharmacists since the early 1900s.
  2. Describe how pharmacy practitioners and educators viewed the need for management skills as the roles of pharmacists evolved.
  3. Identify principal domains of pharmacy care. Describe the practices of pharmaceutical care and medication therapy management as a series of management functions.
  4. Identify myths surrounding the practice of pharmacy and health care as a business.
  5. Evaluate the need for a management perspective to better serve patients and improve outcomes for drug therapy.
  6. List the managerial sciences, and describe their use as tools to assist pharmacists in practice.