Is merger management good or bad for practicing pharmacists?

Recently, the news about the Pharmacist's Law (second draft for comments) has caused a heated debate in the industry: practicing pharmacists and hospital pharmacists will be unified access, classification registration, classification managementWhen i heard this news, the author's first feeling is a big positive, the following on a few aspects to talk about personal viewsthe conditions for admission
at present, the hospital pharmacist's examination conditions are obviously higher than the conditions of practicing pharmacists, requiring full-time and separate Chinese and Western medicineThe author has obtained a certificate of practicing pharmacist, re-applying for the health system pharmacist, but was told that part-time candidates do not meet the requirements for the examination, auditors informed: even if it is a full-time secondary education is OKIf the hospital pharmacist and the practicing pharmacist are merged, the pharmacist will sub-assistant pharmacist and pharmacist, at which time the pharmacist's examination conditions will be upgraded to an undergraduate degreeAlthough the change of practicing pharmacist to a medical institution pharmacist is subject to six months of training and assessment, it will ultimately mean that the practicing pharmacist will go into the medical institution, breaking the previous situation in which the health and drug supervisors do not recognize each otherpharmacist statusbecause of the educational background and employment environment factors, the health system pharmacists are often recognized by the common people, and the social pharmacy practitioners in many people do not have a position, or even in the eyes of the people "selling drugs" or "sales men." When the author once claimed to the patient that he was a practicing pharmacist, the unsuspecting patient said: That is the cause of your company's propaganda for themselvesthe merger ofpharmacists will either break this awkward situation, make more people aware of the profession of practicing pharmacists, and give the social pharmacy practitioners a better statuscomprehensive quality
the professional level and comprehensive quality of hospital pharmacists is much higher than the pharmacy practitioners, of which the educational background is a major factorHospital pharmacy departments are college or undergraduate degrees, even doctoral, master's degree also has a certain proportion, and the proportion of medicine or pharmacy majors is larger, while pharmacy practitioners appear to be mixed, most of them for specialized education, part-time education and undergraduate education also have a certain proportionin addition, hospital pharmacists often have more professional training and skills assessment, can master more solid professional knowledge, while pharmacy practitioners are subject to sales pressure, self-improvement is very limitedPharmacist Treatment At present, the treatment of pharmacists in the health system is higher than that of social pharmacies, which is a fact, in which the examination conditions and employment environment are also part of the reason, while the hospital pharmacist belongs to the title management, the practicing pharmacist is qualified management, which leads to the difference in treatment After the pharmacists are merged and managed, the practicing pharmacists will be close to the hospital pharmacists, and the corresponding practice treatment will be improved , there is a big gap between hospital pharmacists and pharmacy practitioners in various respects, while hospital pharmacists are clearly more dominant The author believes that if the pharmacists merged management, in the gap between the two at the same time, the future pharmacists will appear the following trend: 1, the threshold of examination now, the conditions for practicing pharmacists have been improved: secondary school students are limited to the examination; If the pharmacists merge management, on the one hand, the difficulty of the examination will be improved, on the other hand, secondary and tertiary candidates can only take the examination from the assistant pharmacist, also do not rule out that the practice pharmacist examination will take the model of human-machine examination 2, practice treatment to enhance future pharmacy services are not only for patients' professional and technical services, but as a diagnosis and treatment activities, pharmacists in practice will also charge a certain amount of service fees, reflecting the value of pharmacists, but also enhance the status and treatment of pharmacists 3, professional level to improve pharmacist management will learn from the physician management model, in the distinction between assistant pharmacists and pharmacists at the same time, the corresponding examination conditions and assessment criteria will also be upgraded, and the annual professional training and skills assessment will be incorporated into the normal, this practice will lead to the survival of the fittest situation, which will undoubtedly benefit the construction of the entire team of pharmacists and the promotion of the level of practice.