Pharmacies and other outlets of the professional development of pharmacists are a venue for presentation skills, selling, innovations and produce goods which, although not drugs, are important for the health of the population. It implies masters of pharmacy of the circle of knowledge and competencies that are outside or between the narrow fields of pharmacy.
Such goods may be: nutritional supplements, including vitamins, herbal teas, dietary and other special purpose foods, functional foods, medical devices, cosmetic products, other products.
Pharmacists need to be aware and possess a minimum of professional competence in terms of status, the difference of the medicinal products, General and specific features and properties of parapharmaceutical products, field of application, action, etc.
For this purpose, it is necessary the curricula of the faculties of Pharmacy to provide more training courses of one or more curricular subjects affecting various aspects of parapharmaceutical topics.
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