1- Study 💊

2- Standards 💊

3- Findings  💊

4- Purpose 💊

5- Methods 💊

5- Results  💊

6- Conclusion  💊

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The Challenge of Good to Great Pharmacists

From Good to Great, the defining management study of the pharmacists showed how great pharmacists become over time.

Moreover, how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of the new pharmacists from the very beginning to be a great pharmacist.

But…

What about Great Pharmacists not being born with great DNA?

How can good pharmacists, even bad pharmacists achieve enduring greatness?

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The Study of the Good to Great Pharmacist

For years, this question preyed on the mind of Rasha Abdelsalam, after reading the book Good to Great “Jim Collins”.

Jim Collins’s Book of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t was the trigger to initiate this study.

In this study, we tried to gather the most important pillars for great pharmacists, to help each good pharmacist to be great, and to help the new pharmacists to be great.

This study will help you to know, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause pharmacists to go from good to great.

 

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The Standards of Good to Great 

Using tough benchmarks, the authors identified a set of pharmacists that made the leap to great results and sustained those great results for a long time.

How great!

The good-to-great pharmacists generated cumulative characteristics, that help them to put their fingerprints in the surrounding world.

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The Comparisons of Good to Great

The authors contrasted the good-to-great pharmacists with a carefully selected set of comparison pharmacists that failed to leap from good to great.

What was different?

Why did one set of pharmacists become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?

Over five years, the team analysed the histories of all twenty-eight pharmacists in the study.

After sifting through mountains of data from the survey, discovered the key determinants of greatness — why some pharmacists make the leap and others don’t.

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The Findings of Good to Great

The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:

“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Rasha Abdelsalam, “fly in the face of our pharmacy practice, modern business culture”

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In a perfect medical world, the ideal pharmacist would have different qualifications to lead and have an effective role in the pharmacy field.

The objectives of this study are to define the requirements needed to be an Ideal pharmacist.

In addition, determine the educational qualifications and Years of Experience from another pharmacist’s point of view.

Moreover, determining the best adjectives that characterise the ideal great pharmacist.

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This is a descriptive study that was carried out in a short period, as a pilot survey.

In addition, the study was carried out in the form of a questionnaire, to assess the skills needed by pharmacists.

Moreover, examples as communication, analytical, managerial, computer and medical research skills.

In addition to the optimal age and clinical practice. It was distributed by e-mail via online FADIC email.

The survey targeted both male and female pharmacists from different countries (Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, turkey.).

Besides, different facilities (hospitals, medical centres, community pharmacies, etc)

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The survey was emailed to pharmacists, survey respondents were 49 pharmacists from Egypt, UAE, KSA and other countries from different specialities.

Among these specialities (are 13  clinical pharmacists , 14 community pharmacists , 6  Inpatient hospital pharmacists , 4 Outpatient hospital pharmacists , 1 Healthcare quality specialist and others .

For the ideal Age: 44% do not know while 26.5% suggest age (30-35) and 28.5% suggest age over 35 years

 

 

For doing clinical practice and patient counselling skills mostly agree on its importance as shown in Figure 1

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One of the most important findings from the survey was the ability of an ideal pharmacist to manage and discuss mistakes and to solve any medical-related problems. Figure 2.

One of the interesting findings from the survey is the skills such as analytical, computer, communication, managerial and medical research skills. Figure 3.

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Attention to detail, leadership skills and being a mentor are important qualifications needed by a pharmacist.

In addition, another finding from the survey is related to the preferred expertise if it is better to be generalised across several pharmacy-related areas or be specialized.

Among the results from the survey, the percentage of generalised expertise was 35 %, and The percentage of specialized expertise was 65%. Figure4.

 

The results from the survey respondents about the educational requirement skills for example the frequency of attending medical sessions as CME: 20 votes for monthly attendance 11 votes for quarterly 7 for weekly 3 votes for annually and 5 votes for semi-annually figure 5.

A leader pharmacist uses his skills as analytical, computer, communication, managerial and medical research skills to enhance his confidence and professional efficiency.

Moreover, we recommend further follow-up and research to explore more about how to be an Ideal pharmacist.

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